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Just to add some additional confusion to this discussion on the other side of the pond the understanding is completely different. Unless things have changed since I left the UK, then the term Asian was used by the UK MSM as well as race indicators on government forms etc, to describe people from India, Pakistan & Bangladesh. If you speak to almost any Brit they would never describe Japanese Chinese Korean or any of the people from the west pacific basin as Asian, they would regard that entire group Oriental. The reason for this is fairly obvious, while the UK is even now nearly 90% white, the Indian/Pakistani group have been the largest non-white section of the population for decades, with Afro-Caribbean second and Orientals (mostly Hong Kong Chinese as a small 3rd.