[John29395]

I get your point. I have an Indian friend and I asked him what he considered himself. He said Asian. Therefore that is what I consider Indians as well as other peoples of the Indian Subcontinent region (Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka). However,people from the Subcontinent and those of other parts of Asia look considerably different. There may be Mongoloid influence in the Subcontinental population, but it is significantly darker than those in the rest of Asia. Likewise, you couldn’t consider the relatively lightskinned Caucasoid peoples exactly White. I have heard that in the UK, Asian applies exclusivly to those from the Subcontinent and the word Oriental is used for people from Eastern Asia. However, a person of East Asian descent in the US would take offense to the term Oriental. Perhaps this is due to the fact that the term Oriental was used very negatively during anti-Japanese propaganda during World War II.

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