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Originally posted by Zoltan:
Hey johny this site is great thanks for help!
Vazkez, do you really understand what I'm talking about? I'm talkin about ali babba, palaces, cutlass, desert, sultans, emirs. Of course even in dark sun or dune; middle east and arab culture effects, influences western producers. Oriental is east, these features. If you're still in doubt search the meaning of the word "oriental". ok?
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Of course I understand what you are talking about but it seems you don't understand that the general use of the word "oriental" is to describe things from the far east. For example in England, chinese people are called orientals. However the Oxford Dictionary definition is: Oriental: "of the Orient...."
Orient: "The East, the countries east of the Mediterranean, especially East Asia". Note the especially EAST Asia. The Arab world is west Asia. Well anyway according to that strictly speakin the Arab world is part of the Orient but people usually mean far east when they say "Orient". Just so you know. Most people will instantly think of china etc. when you say "oriental". The stuff you refer to is "Arab world".
In fact, yes I can give you some oriental names as I know a lot of orientals. Some people I know are:
Xin Qiang Yang
EeLin Kuan
Typical surnames are Yang, Yuen, Chang, Wong etc.
The names you gave are all Arabic names.
[ 08-10-2003, 09:49 AM: Message edited by: Vaskez ]