How politically correct are YOU?!

atrophicwhisper
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:06:16 +0000

Or Asian. Asian has several different races. I refuse to believe that the dark skinned Indians are the same race as the light skinned Chinese or the many brown south east Asians.



Actually, that’s kind of the problem with our definition of “Asian.” Think about how many races are included in Asian- Indians, Pakistanis, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Laos people (I’m not sure what the adjective is), Cambodians, and the list goes on and on, and we haven’t even touched on “Pacific Islanders.”

I’m much more for calling those by their nationality. If you’re Indian, then you’re Indian. If you’re Chinese, then you’re Chinese, but we should have an umbrella term for it all under “Asian,” much how if one says he is “European,” then he could be Finnish, French, British, Russian, etc. The Swedish, for example, are also much fairer than Italians or French, so you can definitely have variations.