Current Events > Do you consider Indians (from India) Asians?

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xOmniCloudx posted...

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.

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. Yet nobody doubts they're 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.

Actually, Europe are ones who invented the term "Middle East". However, their definition was different, and meant northwestern South Asia and Central Asia, while the modern definition is Western Asia except for Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia.
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Bat178 posted...

Actually, Europe are ones who invented the term "Middle East". However, their definition was different, and meant northwestern South Asia and Central Asia, while the modern definition is Western Asia except for Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Only thing I have ever been able to find on a non-American creating it or using it is possibly. The first confirmed usage and wide adoption of the term comes from America. That being said, yes as often the case, terms are used differently in America vs other countries.
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I consider Russians to be Eurasians (sup Scotty)

I also feel like Russia is so fucking big that it should be it's own continent/race.
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No.
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Touch posted...

I consider Russians to be Eurasians (sup Scotty)

I also feel like Russia is so fucking big that it should be it's own continent/race.

Many Russians are genetically Eurasian. A number of Slavs are really. Then you have central Asia, West Asia and the Caucasus regions which are Eurasian as hell.
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JE19426 posted...

Rob Cesternino posted...

So why is that all of these Asian girl pics topics are always of girls from Korea and japan, and never from india and east Russia?

You'd have to ask the people that make those topics.

Ok, I'll ask.
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