[HPFGU-Movie] Digest Number 804

[TripChick]

On Thursday, January 8, 2004, at 04:06  AM, HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com 
wrote:

>    Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 17:27:56 -0000
>    From: "jennyandduncan" <aldhelm at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: Parvati and Padma Patil
>
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "pitaprh" <12499 at m...> wrote:
>> I am sure we have all heard of the auditions that were recently
> had
>> for these two parts.  Did anyone else not picture these two
>> characters as Asian?  I would have thought more Indian, as in from
>> India?
>
> Carin replies:
>
> I think this is a British vs. American English difference. In
> Britain, "Asian" is used to refer to people from the Indian
> subcontinent, while "Oriental" refers to those from the Far East.
>
> Carin
>

absolutely *not*. Oriental refers to items, the culture, the cuisine 
perhaps. People from the region are referred to as Asians.