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Originally Posted by Dunyain
What? The word Asian is used in Britain all the time. It just admittedly has a different meaning than in the US. I did a quick google search and could pull pretty much unlimited BBC articles where the word "Asian" is used in the title as an ethnic identifier.
It is not considered insulting at all to use that term in the UK or USA; they just have different meanings. Bad faith post IMO.
You're missing the point that "Asian" doesn't distinguish Chinese from Indian from Pakistani from ...
No person of Asian heritage here would appreciate you calling them Asian, or British Asian even. They'd want to be called British Indian, or British Chinese etc, whose communities have been here for many generations. In the US perhaps it's different where "Asian" was used when "Chinese" should have been used, and it's stuck despite the many people from the Indian subcontinent and Korea, Vietnam etc.
So stop accusing me of bad faith posting when the problem is elsewhere.