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I was surprised to see this thread had 48 replies already.
The nice thing about crossing a certain age is that you stop caring when people disagree with you over trivial things. If something's not important, you learn to not get worked up over it. Less stressful and buys you fewer enemies.
I will just say that in the United States, we commonly use the term "Asian" to refer specifically to people from East Asia, rather than Indians. It's colloquial and has little to do with geography. While it is true that Indians (and other South Asians) are technically Asian, when a speaker says "Asian," he is often referring only to East Asians--that's how I interpreted Deadshot's OP. And I say this as someone of Indian descent.
Feel free to disagree, flame, or insult my momma. 8)
The nice thing about crossing a certain age is that you stop caring when people disagree with you over trivial things. If something's not important, you learn to not get worked up over it. Less stressful and buys you fewer enemies.
I will just say that in the United States, we commonly use the term "Asian" to refer specifically to people from East Asia, rather than Indians. It's colloquial and has little to do with geography. While it is true that Indians (and other South Asians) are technically Asian, when a speaker says "Asian," he is often referring only to East Asians--that's how I interpreted Deadshot's OP. And I say this as someone of Indian descent.
Feel free to disagree, flame, or insult my momma. 8)
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