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Originally Posted by Kelvis
Unless Pakistan was blasted into orbit by the USA last time I checked it was in Asia. So yes.
Most people ITT probably know, but for those that may not do,
Asian in the USA and I think in Canada too means someone of
Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Filipino, Indonesian or Singaporean origin or ethnicity, whereas in the UK, and maybe elsewhere in Europe, Asian can be taken to mean someone from anywhere in the continent of Asia.
However, in the UK we do differentiate some areas of Asia by using the term
South East Asian for people of
Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Filipino, Indonesian, Singaporean origin or ethnicity, and the term
from the Indian Sub Continent for people from
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka.
For the other main part of Asia, so
Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran (Persia) etc we sometimes use
Middle Eastern as a general term
for the region but not very often for a person, unless we do not know their country but they might look like they come from that region.
There are other Asian countries that we in the UK have no term for other than the country itself, such as Afghan, Palestinian, Israeli or Mongolian.
The term Oriental used to be in widespread use in the UK, mainly in reference to Chinese and Hong Kong people, but it has become apparent in recent years that it could be an offensive term so it is hardly used now.
Last edited by SageDonkey; 07-20-2018 at 09:27 PM.