NPR thread deboonking "the model minority myth"
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Lol, they're using the British definition of Asian, including Indians and Pakistanis etc. News flash, in America, when people say "Asian", they mean almost exclusively East Asian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese. So yeah, if you start mixing in a bunch of other groups, including Pacific Islanders, you're going to end up with different results from the people only thinking about East Asians.
U.S. demographic data has been counting Indians, Pakistanis and even Pacific Islanders as Asians in the U.S. for atleast three decades.
The U.S. has gotten into the mindset of dividing everyone into neat little boxes of White, Black, Asian, Hispanic or mixed.
To see how people classify Asians, look at cities like Cupertino, CA that have a high amount of Asian Americans. In these cities, Indians, Middle Easterners and Pacific Islanders all are classified as Asian.
We used to distinguish with the word "oriental", and Asian meant East Indian, but somehow "oriental" is racist. Because it recognizes that there exists more than once race in Asia.
Unless its about food somehow. Its perfectly fine for even corporate grocery stores to have oriental sections for all the Asians, but we can't skip the middle man and refer to them by the fact they come from the Orient.
But somehow fucking stealing a university position from an Asian kid who earned it and giving it to a black kid that didn’t is OK!
The US demographics and stats also counts Latinos as White, yet if you asked 90% of the population they would be a separate box. Same with Asians and Arabs and Indians.
They still put them in the same group. I know a few pakis who were bitching about not being able to go to med school because too many Chinese/Japanese were enrolled.