I am Indian. I just gave an online test. The results are:-
Your Result: Mixed
89%
You have many friends and enjoy them all. Your love of music is not set to one thing. When it comes to defense and friends, you all vary. You are proud to be you.
46%White
40%Asian
22%Hispanic/Latino
13%Black
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The reason that we Indians don't know our race is that we don't have racism in out country, we have castism. We are divided into castes not in races like America.
America being the most influential country in the world, it considers the people who look 'east Asians' to be Asians because they are in majority as compared to 'south Asians'
Geographically speaking yall/they're Asian image.slidesharecdn.com/.../slide-1-728.jpg
BUT LOOKS WISE Arabs/Indians look nothing like what most people would consider a traditional Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) etc. When I think Asian I think i2.asntown.net/.../asian_girls_wallpaper27.jpg NOW she is Asian geographically, BUT MOST people would call her Indian without a doubt 3.bp.blogspot.com/.../...arees-for-dusky-women.jpg Hope i got my point across
Indian = Asians you guys aren't what the average person would picture in their mind when they think Asian though BUT on a map you guys are from their continent etc
I think east Asians as "asian" is largely a designation in the US. In England, "asian" is like indian, pakistani, etc.
I think it's because in the US there are a larger percentage of east Asians than indians so by default somehow east Asians are supposed to representative of all Asians.
I'm Asian and I certainly don't look "asian" to the average American, lol.
Indians are considered Asian to me.
Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese and Koreans have what people called yellow skin.
Indians have brown skin and not yellow skin so maybe they thought that Indians aren't Asians.
I always consider Indians to be Asians. It is only on this site that I hear a lot of people say they aren't Asians.
There are Indians in Singapore too. And Singaporean Indians are Asians too. No?
People base description off of what somebody looks like. I look like a European but I also have Native American (Asiatic) DNA. American people would describe me as "white."
tell me about it! it is so annoying! people forget us conveniently...
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It's tricky, asking or campaigning the webster or oxford dictionary. India is in Asia, but some people from Pakistan and Bangladesh also other countries closer to the middle east consider themselves Indian to be called Asian. Countries on average were named in English for having a discrete language. But it doesn't help the medical field when you refer to someone as any race a country is more discrete to learn and collect specific country medical data to improve the future of the medical field. If you refer to yourself as a country someone could always help you if you ever needed it to look up ethnic country specific medical data. Refer to people as a country and it helps guide people to their medical and other information needs from their own language. On average, it's not in peoples own interest to refer to themselves as a race but as a more information specific ethnic country. There are ethnic and race differences in medical. Self-identification flaws, on the US census there shouldn't be an American classification for medical reasons, there really isn't an American genetics yet unless you are Native American.
Too be honest the question is stupid. You cherry-picked the "Yellow Races" and disregarded the Brown, but we are Asian in demographics. Indian, Filipino (Pinoy), Thais, Nepalese, Indonesian, Burmese, Sri Lankan's, the bloody lot. We did not set the boundaries where the Middle East stopped, and Asia begins South Asia embraces India. I think the number of daft questions on here can boarder on ludicrous. Google it!
To me Asians are Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, you got the point. Asian race so to say.
When it comes down to Eastern countries, we usually separate them into 2 groups: Indians (since there's over a billion of them) and Arabs (regardless if they are actually Arabs, or those are Iranians, Pakistanis, Turkish etc). Sometimes we use a collective word "Easterns".
Well because for one reason they come from completely different cultures, nations and providence's Indian culture has had some influence in Asian culture but overall the two are quite different plus the only real similarity they share is hair color dark browns and blacks.
The same can be said about Egyptians. Why aren't they considered Africans?
Or Mexicans. Why aren't they considered Americans?
Or Isreali Jews, Arabs, and Persians.
Like the Indians, why aren't they considered Asian?
Raise your voice in UN general assembly... !!! I m with you... !!!
Russia, India, Pakistan, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Bhutan, sri lanka, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Georgia, turkey, Myanmar, Maldives, Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia, jordan, kirgizia, & other people of Asian countries will also support us... !!!
I think it's because they aren't normally called "Asian" or many people consider Asians being from the oriental/east (China, Korea and Japan) or south like Phillipine, Thai, Malaysia, Singapore and etc.
I consider Indians and sri lankans to be Asian. For some reason Pakistani goes middle eastern in my mind ( I know I know they're Asian too)
This reminds me of a Russel Peter's joke. I agree with you, but people just think of East Asians as Asians.
That just how it is, don't question it. Some thing just doesn't make sense but that just how society view it.
Indians are not considered Asians because they don't have the "Narrow" eyes that Asians have.
For this reason Indians are considered to be Caucasians.
But India as a country belongs to the Asian continent.
Russian Caucasians and Native Americans are all Asians too, by the way.
but they are. people just think its orientals because we are the majority
if indian are Asian. then russian are Asian, then white people are Asian
at last, we all are Asian
Because people are poorly educated fools, that's why!
Russians/people from Middle East would be Asians too if we did this.
A flaw in the racial construct design.
I consider India Asia. I mean India is South Asia.
we have to separate them somehow... no?
They're next to middle east.
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