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Topic	Do you consider Indians (from India) Asians?
TheCyborgNinja 04/25/18 6:14:44 AM #46:	Funkydog posted... TheCyborgNinja posted... WSM Piru posted... Aki_Narukami posted... no and most indians will get annoyed if you call them asian That is absolutely false. Americans are the only ones who seem to not understand that India is indeed in Asia. Contrary to popular belief Asia is NOT just China and Japan. Pretty much. I live in an area where Punjabi Indians are the second biggest demographic after white people and there are many times "South Asian" comes up as a descriptor. Nobody is bothered. What's amusing is that the American census considers Indians as Asians as well afaik. So seems odd that so many Americans seem to think they aren't. It's because everybody is paranoid about looking racist due to the volume of actual racism. --- "message parlor" ? do you mean the post office ? - SlayerX888 <cite>TheCyborgNinja posted [p:900267065] in Do you con... [t:76545117]...</cite> <quote><cite>Funkydog posted...</cite> <quote><cite>TheCyborgNinja posted...</cite> <quote><cite>WSM Piru posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Aki_Narukami posted...</cite> <quote>no and most indians will get annoyed if you call them asian</quote> That is absolutely false. Americans are the only ones who seem to not understand that India is indeed in Asia. Contrary to popular belief Asia is NOT just China and Japan.</quote> Pretty much. I live in an area where Punjabi Indians are the second biggest demographic after white people and there are many times "South Asian" comes up as a descriptor. Nobody is bothered.</quote> What's amusing is that the American census considers Indians as Asians as well afaik. So seems odd that so many Americans seem to think they aren't.</quote> It's because everybody is paranoid about looking racist due to the volume of actual racism. --- "message parlor" ? do you mean the post office ? - SlayerX888</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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