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Asians aren't counted as "diversity" either. This is why they're referred to as "an inconvenient minority" in the context of DEI.

• justinclift 2y ago
  For that, does "asians" mean people from the middle of asia (ie middle east), or people from south east asia (ie oriental)? Asking because the term has different meanings in say the UK (asian -> from middle east) vs Australia (asian -> from south east asia).
  • recursivecaveat 2y ago
    In the US almost no-one would say "asian" for any country west of Nepal. Sometimes they say "south-asian" for India or the surrounding countries, but even that term is only sometimes extended out to pakistan.
    • KorematsuFredt 2y ago
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      • KorematsuFredt 2y ago
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  • fsckboy 2y ago
    >people from south east asia (ie oriental) it is actually more common from the European and Middle Eastern context to call the (Turkish and Levantine and Arabian) Middle East "oriental"; in Israel, "oriental food" is hummus and felafel; the Orient Express train went to Istanbul. East Asian is the term for ... east Asians and of course the SE Asians you mentioned, and South Asian is the term for "India+Pakistan+" people. Central Asian is the "the -stans" and Mongolia and parts of Russia.
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    • justinclift 2y ago
      Wow, it's even more complicated than I realised. :)
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