{"id":2664,"date":"2005-12-11T22:24:17","date_gmt":"2005-12-12T03:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=2664"},"modified":"2005-12-11T21:13:14","modified_gmt":"2005-12-12T02:13:14","slug":"an_oriental_giv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/11\/an_oriental_giv\/","title":{"rendered":"An Oriental Gives Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

When an Indian television station insists on titling a finance program “Oriental and Occidental<\/a>,” it is time for me to expend no more energy on protesting such terms’ use as racial descriptives. \"oriental.gif\"<\/a><\/p>\n\n

I had thought that having American Heritage Dictionary<\/a> recognize “oriental” as problematic was a step forward, but I suppose I can count on the thick-brown-skinned folks at CNBC-TV18 to maintain the status quo. Nonetheless, I will<\/em> complain that the subject of the show doesn’t even seem relevant to the name; what does foreign investment in India have to do with that old binary of “Oriental” versus “Occidental”? Particularly when some of the global market gurus include non-Occidentals like Ayaz Ebrahim, the Asia-Pacific CEO for Asia-based HSBC. The explorers of the exotic East, at least when it comes to the international flow of capital, no longer are solely Caucasians.<\/p>\n\n

The prompt for an economics writing competition when I was an undergraduate was something like, “Free trade contributes to peace.” I don’t know if that is true, but I would think that genuinely free trade — in contrast to the protectionist economies of 18th and 19th century imperialism, against which Adam Smith<\/a> wrote — might erase some of the old ways of Orientalist<\/a> thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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