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Asian simply means an ethnicity from the continent of Asia.
Oriental means someone of an ethnicity of the Orient, like China, Japan, Thailand, Cambodia, Korea, etc.
The term "oriental" is frowned upon in Canada, USA and Australia as offensive, so such people tend to use "Asian" to refer to them in sometimes their close relatives like the Polynesians and even Amerindians.
In the UK, "Asian" means someone from South Asia (like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, etc.), and the term "oriental" is not viewed as offensive.
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