I dunno. Where my kid went to high school, "asian" usually meant people of Indian heritage. An anecdote only, but. What pops into my mind is that the US is clo

I dunno. Where my kid went to high school, "asian" usually meant people of Indian heritage. An anecdote only, but. What pops into my mind is that the US is closer to what you would call east Asia than it is to India, and, of course, Britain has particularly strong historical ties to India/Pakistan etc. So that might also be a factor.