CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The word ‘Oriental’ to describe the people of Asian origin will no longer be used in U.S statute books.

Detailed explanation-2: -The ancestral population of modern Asian people has its origins in the two primary prehistoric settlement centres – greater Southwest Asia and from the Mongolian plateau towards Northern China. Migrations of distinct ethnolinguistic groups have probably occurred as early as 10, 000 years ago.

Detailed explanation-3: -especially : one who is a native of east Asia or is of east Asian descent.

Detailed explanation-4: -late 14c., “inhabitant of Asia (Minor), ” from Latin Asianus (adjective and noun, “belonging to the province of Asia; ” “an inhabitant of Asia"), from Greek Asianos “Asiatic, ” from Asia (see Asia). It ousted Asiatic as the preferred term mid-20c.