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Origin of Everything
Why Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
Season 1
Episode 35
The word Oriental is hundred of years old, so why do Americans no longer use the word “Oriental”? And how did the word “Asian American” take its place? Watch this week’s Origin of Everything to find out.
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