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TopicWhy do we use the term 'Asians' when this refers to East Asians specifically?
Wutobliteration
07/25/20 3:16:44 AM
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for those that don't know, Asia is the largest continent in the world that consists of South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, West Asia, Central Asia, and North Asia...

notice how East Asia (consisting of Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan) is just a very very small portion of this massive ass continent? South Asia contains India. Central Asia contains the -stan countries, and Southeast Asia is the most diverse, consisting of major Muslim (Indonesia, Malaysia), Buddhist (Thailand) and Christian (Philippines) nations that we hardly hear about. Even in China alone, there are hundreds of various ethnicities being marginalised.

But here someone hears Asian and they think of a Japanese, Korea or Chinese person. Heck, some people can't even tell the difference between these three nationalities.
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