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I know HN is nitpicky, but whether you like it or not, "asian" refers to "east asian" in terms of US pop-culture racial discourse. It may not be right but it's

• kowlo 6y ago
  Agreed - it's a great opportunity for "HN" to realise, whether they like it or not, that "asian" does not only relate to "east asian". It is appalling that the commenter above had to edit their own comment based on these responses.
  • yumraj 6y ago
    Thanks. TBH the only reason I decided to edit that was because it had started distracting from my main comment...
• bostonsre 6y ago
  Is US pop-culture racial discourse really the arbiter of truth for discussions on HN? I understand that it can appear slightly confusing to people here in the united states, but over a billion people who you don't consider asian, refer to themselves as asian.
  • imbnwa 6y ago
    "US pop-culture racial discourse" is a generous way of representing the de facto racial caste system in America as some kind of consensus. Because people get browner the further southwest in Asia you go, a distinction is made. Though its most fascinating that in America only recent immigrants would be referred to as European-American, if not their by their specific ethnicity, even though the majority of the country is European-descent; they're called "white" instead. "White" is a racial caste designation, European indicates a person descends from the people in a specific place on Earth; "white" is not a place on Earth. And yet everyone who is not white gets referred to by where they're ancestors are from