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FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoi’m British, so to me “Asian” usually means from the Indian Subcontinent. Some of those guys can be very beardy!
Also british here. I don’t get why people don’t just say Southern Asian, West Asian, Central Asian, East Asian.
We do that for europe and Africa, so it isn’t offensive or anything, right?
It really neatly divides people into generally similar groups (admittedly Afghanis can be profoundly distinct from Indian-subcontinent-als, and i consider both to be south asians)
farmgineer@nord.pub 2 weeks ago
I grew up in the US and I always used “Asia” on its own to mean East Asia and think everyone else I knew did as well. Anywhere else just was called something else (India, the Middle East, South-East Asia, and so on). I don’t think it hit me until I moved to Japan in my 30s, but I definitely see it a lot still in USAmerican-heavy online groups.