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> and don't single out a geoethnic region. He didn't. Asia is a continent, and it's no different than saying the biggest consumer of hot dogs is North America

> and don't single out a geoethnic region. He didn't. Asia is a continent, and it's no different than saying the biggest consumer of hot dogs is North America. I'm Asian, fwiw.

numpad0 6y ago
Asia is not a continent though, more like “other worlds that don’t speak Indo-European languages”
- conteenants 6y ago
  "Indo" in "Indo-European" comes from India, one of the two largest countries on the Asian continent. You might classify some languages spoken in India as.. Indo-European. Shocking. Those Indians who speak those languages.. are Asian! Surprise! Since you missed third grade geography, the other continents in addition to Asia are Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, and recently discovered to be its own continent, Zealandia Good try though, projecting your own racism onto the topic at hand while simultaneously revealing incredible ignorance
  - ghufran_syed 6y ago
    I agree with your points but feel it would be better to try and and aim for a more mature tone when replying to a possibly less mature comment?
  - numpad0 6y ago
    So how often would you refer to people from India as Asians, should you use the word?
    - balls187 6y ago
      All the time.
    - jamiek88 6y ago
      All the time as they refer to themselves as Asian. In UK.
    - ripe 6y ago
      In Britain they call people from India Asians all the time. Immigrants from the Indian subcontinent are the biggest nonwhite group, and that’s the word they are known by. In the US, I think people often use “Asian” to euphemistically refer to people they used to call Orientals. The latter term is considered problematic. The new term hasn’t improved their treatment, though.
      - numpad0 6y ago
        Found this definition by UN sub-dividing Asia into five(six) sub-regions[1], containing nations as Kazakhstan, China, Philippines, India, Saudi Arabia(, Russia) to name one from each. I think the "India" prefix in the terminology you mentioned and the fact that euphemistic American "Asian" including only East/Sountheast Asians indicate that there is a widely recognized and practical distinction between the groups, which also aligns with the UN definition, despite both partly sharing the literal expression. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_geoscheme_for_Asia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_geoscheme_for_A...
      - balls187 6y ago
        > In the US, I think people often use “Asian” to euphemistically refer to people they used to call Orientals. I wonder why that is; while at the same time, Kamala Harris is widely considered the first Asian American Vice President, because her mother is a Tamil American (as am I).
- triceratops 6y ago
  > Asia is not a continent though According to...? And if it's not a continent, what is it? > “other worlds that don’t speak Indo-European languages” There are hundreds of Indo-European languages spoken in Asia. One of them (Hindi) is the 4th most common first language in the world, after Mandarin, Spanish, and English[1]. (I'm actually surprised Arabic isn't higher on that list but maybe the various regional variants count as different languages?) I'm not sure where you're getting your geography and linguistics information from. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...
  - numpad0 6y ago
    Asia is a hyper broad term that could include areas from east to Russia to just west of Turkey except Middle East. Some thinks Central Asia is not or whatnot. “Continent” refers to single contiguous land encircled by seawater, that aren’t islands, at least as I think of the word. > where you're getting your geography It’s 7:45 now where I am.
    - irrational 6y ago
      > “Continent” refers to single contiguous land encircled by seawater, that aren’t islands, at least as I think of the word. To the best of my knowledge, you are literally the only person who uses that definition. By that definition Asia, Europe, and Africa would be a single continent. North and South America would be a single continent. What school did you go to that they taught you there are 4 continents in the entire world?
      - numpad0 6y ago
        > 4 continents Isn't that six? Eurasia, Africa, Australia, North America, South America, and Antarctica, with India noted as "sub-continent" and Asia sometimes distinguished within Eurasia by mountain ridges.
        triceratops 6y ago
jbm 6y ago
Israel (edit: where Intel does a lot of their work) is in Asia too. In a water-limited region, at that.

> and don't single out a geoethnic region. He didn't. Asia is a continent, and it's no different than saying the biggest consumer of hot dogs is North America. I'm Asian, fwiw.

numpad0 6y ago

Asia is not a continent though, more like “other worlds that don’t speak Indo-European languages”

conteenants 6y ago
"Indo" in "Indo-European" comes from India, one of the two largest countries on the Asian continent. You might classify some languages spoken in India as.. Indo-European. Shocking. Those Indians who speak those languages.. are Asian! Surprise! Since you missed third grade geography, the other continents in addition to Asia are Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, and recently discovered to be its own continent, Zealandia Good try though, projecting your own racism onto the topic at hand while simultaneously revealing incredible ignorance
- ghufran_syed 6y ago
  I agree with your points but feel it would be better to try and and aim for a more mature tone when replying to a possibly less mature comment?
- numpad0 6y ago
  So how often would you refer to people from India as Asians, should you use the word?
  - balls187 6y ago
    All the time.
  - jamiek88 6y ago
    All the time as they refer to themselves as Asian. In UK.
  - ripe 6y ago
    In Britain they call people from India Asians all the time. Immigrants from the Indian subcontinent are the biggest nonwhite group, and that’s the word they are known by. In the US, I think people often use “Asian” to euphemistically refer to people they used to call Orientals. The latter term is considered problematic. The new term hasn’t improved their treatment, though.
    - numpad0 6y ago
      Found this definition by UN sub-dividing Asia into five(six) sub-regions[1], containing nations as Kazakhstan, China, Philippines, India, Saudi Arabia(, Russia) to name one from each. I think the "India" prefix in the terminology you mentioned and the fact that euphemistic American "Asian" including only East/Sountheast Asians indicate that there is a widely recognized and practical distinction between the groups, which also aligns with the UN definition, despite both partly sharing the literal expression. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_geoscheme_for_Asia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_geoscheme_for_A...
    - balls187 6y ago
      > In the US, I think people often use “Asian” to euphemistically refer to people they used to call Orientals. I wonder why that is; while at the same time, Kamala Harris is widely considered the first Asian American Vice President, because her mother is a Tamil American (as am I).
triceratops 6y ago
> Asia is not a continent though According to...? And if it's not a continent, what is it? > “other worlds that don’t speak Indo-European languages” There are hundreds of Indo-European languages spoken in Asia. One of them (Hindi) is the 4th most common first language in the world, after Mandarin, Spanish, and English[1]. (I'm actually surprised Arabic isn't higher on that list but maybe the various regional variants count as different languages?) I'm not sure where you're getting your geography and linguistics information from. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...
- numpad0 6y ago
  Asia is a hyper broad term that could include areas from east to Russia to just west of Turkey except Middle East. Some thinks Central Asia is not or whatnot. “Continent” refers to single contiguous land encircled by seawater, that aren’t islands, at least as I think of the word. > where you're getting your geography It’s 7:45 now where I am.
  - irrational 6y ago
    > “Continent” refers to single contiguous land encircled by seawater, that aren’t islands, at least as I think of the word. To the best of my knowledge, you are literally the only person who uses that definition. By that definition Asia, Europe, and Africa would be a single continent. North and South America would be a single continent. What school did you go to that they taught you there are 4 continents in the entire world?
    - numpad0 6y ago
      > 4 continents Isn't that six? Eurasia, Africa, Australia, North America, South America, and Antarctica, with India noted as "sub-continent" and Asia sometimes distinguished within Eurasia by mountain ridges.
      - triceratops 6y ago

jbm 6y ago

Israel (edit: where Intel does a lot of their work) is in Asia too. In a water-limited region, at that.