# Is what Westerners call "logic/logical" a matter of cultural perspective? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 30, 2014, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-what-westerners-call-logic-logical-a-matter-of-cultural-perspective/699970 "2014-09-30T13:51:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 27
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-what-westerners-call-logic-logical-a-matter-of-cultural-perspective/699970/27 "2014-09-30T19:12:45Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > I apologize if anyone took offense. IIRC it wasn’t considered offensive when I learned English and, frankly, I’m at a loss to understand why it’s considered offensive today. It’s a good generic word which can embrace West Asians of, well, Oriental culture in a way that “East Asian” or “Asian” does not. I don’t really understand why it’s offensive either (though that would be more true of “the Orient” than “Oriental” as a noun), but it’s pretty well established that it _is_. So you shouldn’t use it no matter when you grew up. 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-what-westerners-call-logic-logical-a-matter-of-cultural-perspective/699970)._