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Afghan, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bahraini, Bangladeshi, Bhutanese, Bruneian, Cambodian, Chinese, Cypriot, Georgian, Indian, Indonesian, Iranian, Iraqi, Japanese, Jordanian, Kazakhstani, Kuwaiti, Kyrgyzstani, Laotian, Lebanese, Malaysian, Maldivian, Mongolian, Burmese, Nepali, North Korean, Omani, Pakistani, Palestinian, Filipino, Qatari, Russian, Saudi Arabian, Singaporean, South Korean, Sri Lankan, Syrian, Taiwanese, Tajik, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen, Emirati, Uzbekistani, Vietnamese, Yemeni people are asians.

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Except the whole thing where the people we call Mexican today lived in South West America 200 years ago...

So it really is a terrible example to "Asian"...

Because there is no country called "Asia".

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

There is a continent called Asia, as well as one called Africa and another called Europe.

People from those places are called African, and European respectively.

Not to mention places like the middle east...

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