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Old Posted Oct 10, 2019, 4:45 PM
Obadno Obadno is offline
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Originally Posted by CaliNative View Post
"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.
Yeah yeah we know but most people when using the term "Asian" in the USA mean East Asian.

Lots of people dont even use Asian to define Indians/Pakistanis and Bangladeshis typically lumping them all in as "Indian"

I know In England and Europe they use Asian to primarily describe Middle Eastern and Indian people.
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