Why oriental is wrong

Geishas as West Coast girls? How can you be eternally east of where you are, unless you are an eternal object? The subject is always at the center of its world. You can be east of me; I am never east of myself. Others are directional, but the Self never is. There is a primal potency to the act of naming oneself, which has long been denied us.

The members of a community with any amount of self-respect should confer, and choose and designate and insist upon the name that they feel describes them best. It is with that in mind that we prefer to name ourselves Asian Americans. Follow the Opinion section on Twitter latimesopinion and Facebook.

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