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People are going to lose their shit if you bring up western or central Asia. Kazakhstan alone will have people scratching their heads once they look at what kinds of people you find there looks wise. Or even in countries like INdia and Pakistan, what they see in the north vs south of the country where the look is VASTLY different. Basically, Black vs White difference yet nobody doubts they're all Indian or Pakistani. Just look up bollywood stars to see what I mean. Look at the REAL Aryans that most don't know are Indian since they stereotype all Indians as dark skinned and having only specific features.

Samurai_Shinjo posted...

Controversial opinion here but I personally believe that Indians are only "Asian" in the geographic sense, but not so much culturally and phenotypically. I think "South Asians" should be a separate demographic. As you said, East/Southeast Asians don't feel the same kind of familiarity toward Indians as they do toward one another. Asia is such a huge continent that it's wrong to placed everyone under the same umbrella just because they happened to live in the same continent

Except they do this to Europe and Africa already and that's considered fine. All continents are huge, they're only continents. People here judge by looks above all else even though if you go to Europe and Africa you'll see that people look drastically different as you go throughout it and you'll EASILY be able to tell they're from different regions of the same continent. For example, you can tell a Slavic person apart from a non White Slavic person. To many people Slavic people look "exotic" next to non Slavic Whites due to how different they look. Or a South European vs a North European. They have vastly differently facial features and the north tends to be taller, paler, freckled and with light eyes and blonde and red hair. Those things are rare in the south and people more commonly have olive skin, dark hair and dark eyes. Yet nobody doubts all those people are White or European despite that.

Ben_Ruggiero posted...

No, it's the same as I don't consider middle eastern people as Asian.

Middle East stretches into Africa and a part of Europe as well. The Middle East is a term America made up by the way so not surprising it makes no sense.
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