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> Grouping South and East Asians seems pretty silly to me. Agreed 100%. Honestly, even lumping all South Asians together and all East Asians together is pret
by chimeracoder 11y ago
> Grouping South and East Asians seems pretty silly to me.
Agreed 100%.
Honestly, even lumping all South Asians together and all East Asians together is pretty silly and obscures a lot of cultural, linguistic, socioeconomic, etc. differences that are hugely important when talking about "diversity".
Let's not forget that literally over half the world's population is South Asian or East Asian[0]. It'd be ridiculous not to assume that these are incredibly heterogeneous groups that can't be all bucketed under the same category, but sadly, that's what people generally do.
[0] Before someone points out that "Asians" are a smaller percentage of the US population - yes, but that misses the point. These group definitions are arbitrary (and have changed greatly over the years). If we're going to talk about racial and ethnic origin as a component of diversity, we can't gerrymander the group definitions unless our actual goal is to artificially inflate metrics on diversity.
- sliverstorm 11y agoeven lumping all South Asians together and all East Asians together is pretty silly... Well, not terribly much more silly than lumping all caucasoids together at least.
- chimeracoder 11y ago> Well, not terribly much more silly than lumping all caucasoids together at least. "Caucasoid" is a term that already includes a large chunk (if not a majority) of South Asians, so yes, it is silly.
- angersock 11y agoNo no no, remember, the official story is that all whites are interchangeable members of an oppressive conspiracy. :|