muslim man used fake name on Telegram to stir up racial hatred during riots
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
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Someone explain this "asian" horse shit to me. Why does the British captured media say Asian when they mean muslim? Is like the US where "man", "jogger", and "stranger" means "black", and "white" means "hispanic"?
I don’t think this is a captured media thing. As I understand it, it’s a cultural thing where “Asian” covers the Middle East, India, and maybe parts of Southeast Asia (?) and then the term for, say, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, etc. that the US tends to picture when we hear “Asian” was “Oriental.” But then “Oriental” became offensive, so now they get carved out as “East Asian.”
That’s more of a vague impression from reading some UK news and literature, though. I could be incorrect.
its not a cultural thing. Older British people will tell you that they used to call these people by their name "pakistani" for example until people started calling it "racist" so they started saying "Asian"