<p>Alright, so I'm South Asian and I was talking to my East Asian friend and he said that I'm not Asian and Asian only refers to East Asians like Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, etc,.</p>
<p>Of course I didn't bother arguing with him because I knew I couldn't change his opinion, but it got me thinking about what people in general considered Asian to be.</p>
<p>Do you guys automatically think Asian as only East Asians?</p>
<p>Quick note: In the UK, when someone says Asian, they think of South Asians and they refer to East Asians as orientals or by "Chinese" while it's the opposite here.</p>
<p>Someone whose ancestors were mostly natives to somewhere in Asia.</p>
<p>But when I actually think of an Asian person, I tend to think of a Chinese-looking person because I live in a rather homogeneous area and the only Asian friend I’ve ever had was Chinese.</p>
<p>The U.S. Census Bureau definition of Asians refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent. It includes people who indicated their race(s) as “Asian” or reported entries such as “Chinese”, “Filipino”, “Indian”, “Vietnamese”, “Korean”, “Japanese”, and “Other Asian” or provided other detailed Asian responses. </p>
<p>People from the Middle East are also from Asia but they are considered by the U.S. government to be Caucasian, even though the Middle East is in Asia.</p>
<p>But if you or your family is from South Asia, you are definitely Asian.</p>
<p>People that have high scores in standardized math tests…
Joking. Anyone born in Asia or that has Asian blood, including Arabs, Turks, Persians, Kurds, Pakistanis, Afghans, and Indians.</p>
<p>Same crap brah. But I don’t really care, I just say i’m bengali. It’s whatever, being Bengali is more unique and I love people who say “What is that/Where is that?”</p>
<p>I consider anything east of Bangladesh Asian. Simply put, people who have that east-Asian kind of look to me. So Asian-Indians, I don’t know what I consider them, but not Asian. However, people from countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Bhutan, Laos, Nepal, etc. I do consider Asian, as well as the Eastern Asians. </p>
<p>But I also don’t like to group all these people as Asian. So many people, when they see my face, assume that I’m Chinese. And it’s super annoying, because sometimes those people start talking to me in Chinese and I’m just like I can’t understand you at all. Stahp. I’m not Chinese, and I don’t even look it.</p>
<p>I consider pretty much every asianish person Asian. I have a Filipino friend and she gets so mad about all the Chinese and Vietnamese jokes I make about her.</p>
<p>Typically, at least where I’m from, when someone says “Asian”, it refers to East Asian, and also a little South East Asian. Typically, China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia, Laos, Cambodia are the extent that are refereed to as “Asian”. If you are South Asian ie. Pakistani, Indian, from Bangladesh, or possibly Burmese, you would more tend top get labeled as “Indian” even though you may not fit with that group, I have also heard them referred to as “Brown”. When you get into the Middle East you may be labeled “Arabic”, or just “Middle Eastern”. If you’re from Northern or central Asia you may either be grouped with Europeans and viewed as white, or either Middle Eastern or East Asian.</p>
<p>Asian = Anyone from Asia or with Asian ancestry. </p>
<p>The modern connotation of the word implies that one is from the Orient. However, South Asians are just as much Asian as their Eastern counterparts. </p>
<p>Also, I take pride in being called “Brownman”</p>