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Originally Posted by CaliNative
"Asia" goes al the way west to Turkey, and includes everything east of the Caucasus/Ural Mountains in a geographic sense. Yet the list of "Asians" seems to exclude groups like Iranians (many 100s of thousands in L.A. area), Arabs, Israelis, Siberians etc. How does the Census Bureau define "Asian"? In the geographic meaning, as a person from Asia? Both Iran and India are in Asia, yet the list includes Indians but doesn't include Iranians, or many other nationalities that are also Asian and have significant numbers of immigrants in the U.S.
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The census bureau defines Asian to include anyone from East, Southeast, or South Asia. People from Central Asia and West Asia are just defined as being white.
This means that if you are a Pashtun from Pakistan, you are Asian, but if you are a Pashtun from Afghanistan, you are white.