The native habitat of the sawtooth oak tree is Japan, Korea, China and the Himalayan Mountain range. The tree was introduced to America in 1862. This oak probably derives its name from the distinctive sawtooth-edged leaves it produces.
Occidental are native people from the western hemisphere (Europe, North America, South America) Oriental are native people from the eastern hemisphere (the countries of Asia), although Oriental is now largely consider an offensive word and the preferred word is Asian. Below is a note from freedictionary.com about why Oriental is offensive
In the contemporary cultural meaning, the phrase Western world includes Europe, as well as many countries of European colonial origin with substantial European ancestral populations in the Americas, Asia and Oceania.alestinian-American literary critic Edward Said uses the term occident in his discussion of orientalism. According to his binary, the West, or Occident, created a romanticized vision of the East, or Orient to justify colonial and imperialist intentions.