The racial characteristics of East Asians

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The Orient just means the East; Shanghai, for example is an Oriental city

The Orient traditionally in English refers to the near east, while the far east is only sometimes lumped in with this. This is why "orientalism" generally refers to a fetishization of the Islamic world rather than anything to do with China or Japan. If you read older translated Greek texts, they also always use "Orientals" as a shorthand for Syrians, Jews, Persians etc

 

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The Orient traditionally in English refers to the near east, while the far east is only sometimes lumped in with this. This is why "orientalism" generally refers to a fetishization of the Islamic world rather than anything to do with China or Japan. If you read older translated Greek texts, they also always use "Orientals" as a shorthand for Syrians, Jews, Persians etc

So THAT'S why they call the Coptic and Tewahedo churches "Oriental Orthodox"