Twitter Conversation: Oriental!

[jhameia]

Sez I, on Twitter today:

Quick! Give me a list of things you associate with the term "Oriental"!
or terms, or adjectives, or descriptions.

Lovely_Lici: Noodles, dry cleaning (a place in Bahamas), slippers (the cheap ones with sequins), rice

joverm: rugs, porcelain, silk, demure womrn, stern mrn

SteamScholar: I Ching, Feng Shui, Acupuncture, the Korean guy from my theology class 16 years ago, Buddhism, Shinto, Haiku, Brass Temple Bell

SteamScholar: Bruce Lee, Tai Chi, Shogun, Samurai, Ha Jin, Tienanmen Square, Everest, Sherpa, Tibet.

SteamScholar: Anime, Manga, Akira, Godzilla, Big Trouble in Little China, "Raiden wins!", my best friend in grade 2, Kitaro.

snoboe: "...Station." A now defunct restaurant in the town I grew up in.

THEN, SEZ I, Let me rephrase: Give me a list of ADJECTIVES you associate with the term "Oriental"! Because things will go on forever.

heathercorinna: (free-association, bias likely intact) Old, structured, conflicted, soft-spoken, family-oriented, rigid, stubborn, artful, strict.

Note: I really appreciated Heather Corinna's response, because it was the one that was quickest and possibly most honest with bias.

SteamScholar: that's a real mix - it's a blend of wise, smart, quiet, refined, and the noisy lady from the busy today.

Koifla: rugs, cooking, massage

writersyndrome: Noodles. Rugs. Fetishes. (:P) Orientalism (art movement & post-colonial theory) & that line from "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist"


I may collect more tomorrow.

In the meantime, enjoy this quick rumination which spawned the question.