The word orient comes from Latin, but the Dutch were the first to apply it to mean the far east. They were the first to apply the Roman tradition of having the east at the top of a map to "Persian" maps that had information of east Asia. At the time, Europeans had essentially no interaction with east Asians so they…

Not real people, people who speak the language that the term comes from (Dutch). But that perspective makes you wonder why it's called the West instead of the Center of the Whole Damn Universe.

Why is calling someone Oriental racist? It's a more geographically accurate term than Asian