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"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

"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).

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).