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'Asian people',[1] 'Asiatic' or 'Asian Continental Ancestry Group'[2] is a demonym for people from Asia. However, the use of the term varies by country and person, often referring to people from a particular region or subregion of Asia.[3][4] Though it may be based on residence, it is also often considered a "race" or an "ethnic group".
In the United States, Canada, and Australia, ''Asian'' refers most commonly to people of predominantly East Asian or Southeast Asian ancestry; however in the United Kingdom and Anglophone Africa, ''Asian'' refers most commonly to South Asians.[5]''The New Oxford Dictionary of English.'' 2001. New York: Oxford University Press. In other countries, the term is applied to both groups of people, or all people from Asia in general. In the US, however, Middle Eastern and Central Asian people are usually not considered Asian peoples.Lee, Sharon M. Population Reference Bureau. Asian Americans Diverse and Growing. 2006. September 10 2006. [5]
As early as 1920, Japanese and Korean elites had a conception of Asia as the civilization of the East in contrast to Europe.Menon, Sridevi. Duke University. "Where is West Asia in Asian America?Asia and the Politics of Space in Asian America." 2004. April 26, 2007. http://socialtext.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/24/1_86/55.pdf
In Malaysia and Singapore, their three largest ethnic groups, Malays, Chinese, and Indians, are all considered Asian.[6][7]
Main articles: Asian American, Racial classification of Indian Americans
For purposes of the U.S. Census, the term "Asian" is a race defined as "people who have origins in the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia or the Indian Subcontinent. [8] Respondents can also report more specific ancestry, such as Chinese, Taiwanese, Filipino, Korean, Japanese, Malaysian, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Pakistani, Laotian, Thai, Asian-Indian, Cambodian, and so on, including "Other Asian". Someone reporting these ancestries but no race will be classified as "Asian". Central Asian Americans were classified as "Asiatic" on the 1910 US Census which legally hindered their immigration along with other Asians. Central Asian Turkish Americans were the targets of anti-Asian hysteria during the "yellow race crisis".[9] In United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923)[10] [11] Indian Americans' race was determined to be Asian.[12] Middle Eastern Americans are not included as Asians by the US Census.[13]
According to Sharon M. Lee in her 1998 publication, for many non-Asian Americans in the United States (in 1998) Asian American means Oriental, Chinese American or Japanese American. This is due to the Chinese and Japanese immigrants being the first Asian immigrants into the United States. Today, with the increasing demographic of Korean Americans, South Asian Americans and Southeast Asian Americans the definition among United States citizens of who is Asian American is expanding,[14] but in common usage Asian has only additionally included Filipino Americans, Vietnamese Americans, and Korean Americans.[15]
Main articles: British Asian
In the United Kingdom, the term "Asian", though it can refer to the continent of Asia as a whole,[16] is more commonly associated with people of South Asian origin, particularly Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans.[17] The UK usage of the term "Asian" is reflected in the "ethnic group" section of UK census forms, which treat "Asian" and "Chinese" as separate (see British Asian).National Statistics. Ethnicity. 2005. August 27 2006. [15] Most respondents to the UK 2001 Census of non-Chinese East Asian and Southeast Asian descent chose to write-in their ethnicity in the "Other Ethnic Group" category rather than the "Other Asian" category, reflecting the association of the word Asian in the UK with South Asian.[18]
The United Kingdom, Anglophone Africa and Anglophone Caribbean are places in the Western world where the word "Asian" is used primarily to identify people from the Indian subcontinent. Due to the term's contested definition in British English, the use of the term "South Asian" is used for clarity in discussions in the United Kingdom on colonialism, discrimination, and migration[19] or when the content of its parameters may become mistakenly conflated with those of East Asian descent. [20]
In Canada, Asian refers to people from the Far East, Southeast Asia,[21] South Asia,[22] and West Asia[23]. Like the United States, in Canada the term Asian generally refers to the East Asian Canadians since they were the first Asian immigrant groups into Canada.[24]
Main articles: Asian Australian
Notably, the Australian Census includes Central Asia, a region that is often considered to be part of the Greater Middle East.[25] The Australian Census includes four regions of Asia in its official definition. Defined by the 2006-2011 Australian Census, three ''broad groups'' have the word Asian included in their name: ''Central'' ''and Southern Asian'', ''South-East Asian'' and ''North-East Asian''. Russians are classified as ''Southern and Eastern Europeans'' while Middle Easterners are classified as ''North African and Middle Easterners''.[26]
In parts of anglophone Africa, especially East Africa and South Africa, and in parts of the Anglophone Caribbean, the term "Asian", though it can refer to the continent of Asia as a whole,[27] is more commonly associated with people of South Asian origin, particularly Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans.[28]
The United Kingdom, Anglophone Africa,[29] and Anglophone Caribbean are places in the Western world where the word "Asian" is used primarily to identify people from the Indian subcontinent, although in South Africa, Asian can refer to East Asians as well.[30]
New Zealand's census called Statistics New Zealand defines the Asian to include people of Chinese, Indian, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Sri Lankan, Cambodian and Thai ancestries.Statistics New Zealand. Asian people. 2006. December 4, 2006.[28]
Statistics Norway considers people of Asian background to be people from all Asian countries, including Turkey.[31][32]
Paul Thomas Welty in his book The Asians Their Evolving HeritageWelty, Paul Thomas. The Asians Their Evolving Heritage Sixth Edition. New York:Harper & Row Publishers, 1984. ISBN 0-06-047001-1 claims that Asians refer exclusively to people of the "South Asian Subcontinent", "Southeast Asia" and "East Asia" (pp. 21).[33] The staple food of Asians is rice or wheat (pp.30)., but other common foods include barley, millet, corn, sorghum and sweet potatoes. Asian culture has been predominately influenced by the civilizations of India and China and the influence of Islam (pp.54). Asian people frequently live in large family systems often incorporating three generations under one roof, (pp.55). Asians have long valued education and literacy and have lived in societies led by a scholar class (pp. 365).
South Asians have characteristics in common (pp. 61). South Asians are a religious people who share the commonality of having been under British rule, (pp. 61). Due to their location between the Middle East, Europe, and other parts of Asia, they have come into contact with various other cultues, making their culture an amalgam of different cultures (pp. 61).
East Asians have characteristics in common (pp. 153). East Asians are connected by the commonality of Chinese cultural influence as well as Indian philosophy (pp. 158). East Asians are also mostly farmers except for modernized Japan (Welty, pp. 158).
Southeast Asians have characteristics in common (pp. 323). Southeast Asians are influenced by Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Confucism (pp. 326). Southeast Asians share the family system, poverty, and respect for teachers and learning (pp. 327). Due to the geography of many islands and coastal territory, Southeast Asians have been influenced by Indian, Japanese, Chinese and recently American cultural influences (pp. 329).
Sudha Ramachandran, writer for the Asia Times, claims that China and India vie for the status of Asia's "''mother civilization''"Ramachandran, Sudha. Asia Times. "India has its own soft power: Buddhism." 2007. July 9, 2007. [29], but Indrani Bagchi who is also a Times Asia writer claims that India is the heart of Asian civilization because it is the origin of Buddhism.
Dr. Keith Lowe, race-relations expert for the Canadian government,[34] claims that Asian people refer to Central, South, Southeast and East Asians.[35]
The term "Oriental" (from the Latin word for "Eastern")[36] was originally used in Europe in reference to the Near East. It was later extended to the rest of Asia, but came to refer to Northeast Asians and Southeast Asians in the 19th and 20th century US,[37] where most Asians were Chinese (and later Japanese and Filipino). By the late 20th century, the term had gathered associations in North America with older attitudes now seen as outmoded, and was replaced with the term "Asian" as part of the updating of language concerning social identities,[38] which critics have derided as political correctness.[39]
The name Asia is probably derived from ancient Assyrian.[40] It therefore originally referred to the regions now called "West Asia" and "Central Asia", the Sinai Peninsula to Persia and Asia Minor to Arabia. To the ancient Greeks, Asia usually referred to the Persian Empire, while to the Romans, Asia was a small region or, later, province at the Western end of Anatolia (now Turkey).
Clovis Maksound, Director for the Organization of Global South, argues that the term "Middle East" is a Eurocentric term denoting the region between Europe and East Asia, because it denies the Middle East's connection with Muslim North Africa.[41] In English parlance, Western Asians like Turks, Iranians, Cypriots, and Arabs,[42] and the Central Asians of the former Soviet Republics are not referred to as "Asian" by United States government agencies.
The Canadian government uses "West Asian" in its statistics; however people from the Arab countries are counted in a separate "Arab" category. [43] [44]
Most of Russia's huge territory is in Asia, though the majority of its population is in Europe and ethnically Slavic. Depending on context, Russian people may be considered European or mixed according to their individual ethnic nationality, ancestry, or appearance.
The word Eurasian is also often used to describe Russia's position in the world.
See also transcontinental nation[45]. Russians are generally not included in the term "Asian".[46]
In normal usage Asian does not refer to the people from the Pacific Islands who are usually called Pacific Islanders.[47] The term "Asians and Pacific Islanders" or "Asia/Pacific" was used on the 1990 US Census.[48] As late as 2001, they were consided by most Americans to be the same racial group as Asians due to a perception of their implicit contrast to "whiteness".[49] However, in the 2000 US Census, many Pacific Islanders did not consider themselves the same social identity as Asians, and classified themselves separately.
1. "Asian". ''Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary.
2. United States National Library of Medicine. Medical Subject Headings. 2004. November 17, 2006.[1]
3. Aspinall, Peter J. Oxford Journals. Journal of Public Health. 2003. October 26 2006. [2]
4. Lee, Sandra S. Mountain, Joanna. Barbara, Koening A. The Meanings of Race in the New Genomics: Implications for Health Disparities Research. Yale University. 2001. October 26 2006. [3]
5. Color Q World. Clarifying the Definition of Asian. 2005. October 1 2006. [4]
6. 44th IFLA 2007 World Congress - Malaysia -Truly Asia
7. The paradox of low body mass index and high body fat percentage among Chinese, Malays and Indians in Singapore
8. Barnes, Jessica S. and Bennett, Claudett E. The Asian Population:2000. 2002. September 1 2006. [6]
9. Arab American Institute. Not Quite White:Race Classification and the Arab American Experience. 1997. September 29 2006. [7]
10. PBS United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind
261 U.S. 204 (1923). 2000. September 1 2006. [8]
11. TAKAO OZAWA
12. Assissi, Frank. Desparades. Are Desis White? 2006. [9]
13. Arab American Institute. Not Quite White:Race Classification and the Arab American Experience. 1997. September 29 2006. [10]
14. Lee, Sharon M. Population Reference Bureau. Asian Americans Diverse and Growing. 2006. September 10 2006. [11]
15. Katsiavriades, Kryss. Qureshi, Talaat. English Usage in the UK and USA. 1997. October 26 2006. [12]
16. Color Q World. Clarifying the Definition of Asian. 2005. October 1 2006. [13]
17. British Sociological Association. Equality and Diversity. Language and the BSA:Ethnicity & Race. 2005. October 26. [14]
18. Gardener, David. Who are the Other Ethnic Groups. 2005. October 27 2006. [16]
19. Aspinall, Peter J. Oxford Journals. Journal of Public Health. 2003. October 26 2006. [17]
20. British Sociological Association. Equality and Diversity. Language and the BSA:Ethnicity & Race. 2005. October 26. [18]
21. Asian Canadian. 2000. September 29 2006. [19]
22. South Asian Observor. Asians take Longest Route to Enter Spain Illegally. 2006. September 29 2006[20]
23. '2001 Census Visible Minority and Population Group User Guide' http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/Products/Reference/tech_rep/vismin.cfm
24. Aspinall, Peter J. Oxford Journals. Journal of Public Health. 2003. October 26 2006. [21]
25. World Atlas.com The Middle East. September 30 2006. [22]
26. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Australian Standard Classification of Cultural and Ethnic Groups Second Edition. 2005. August 20 2006. [23]
27. Color Q World. Clarifying the Definition of Asian. 2005. October 1 2006. [24]
28. British Sociological Association. Equality and Diversity. Language and the BSA:Ethnicity & Race. 2005. October 26. [25]
29. Sinha, Gayatri. Diatribe or art? The Hindu. 2002. September 29 2006. [26]
30. University of Maryland. Assessment for Asians in South Africa. 2003. September 29 2006. [27]
31. http://www.ssb.no/vis/english/subjects/02/02/20/innvutv_en/main.html
32. http://www.ssb.no/vis/samfunnsspeilet/utg/200604/10/art-2006-10-10-01.html
33. "The region called Asia in this book stretches from Pakistan on the west to Japan on the east and from the northern borders of China to the southernmost boundaries of Indonesia."
34. Ontario Multicultural Association. "Speaker Biography: Dr. Keith Lowe." 2007. July 29, 2007.[30]
35. Asian Heritage Month. "Credits." 2007. July 29, 2007. [31]
36. Cawley, Kevin. University of Notre Dame. Oriental. 2004. September 29 2006. [32]
37. Hu, Alan. Model Minority. On Asian and Oriental. 1993. September 29 2006. [33]
38. Bartleby.com The American Heritage® Book of English Usage. 2005. September 1 2006. [34]
39. Friedman. Haladina. The Politically Correct Handbook. 1992. September 1 2006. [35]
40. Think Baby Names. Origin and Meaning of the name Asia. 2006. September 9 2006. [36]
41. Katz, Elizabeth. Virginia Law. Democracy in the Middle East. 2006. September 9 2006. [37]
42. Lee, Sharon M. Population Reference Bureau. Asian Americans Diverse and Growing. 2006. September 10 2006. [38]
43. http://www.statcan.ca/english/research/89-621-XIE/89-621-XIE2007003.pdf
44. http://www.google.com/search?q=west+asian+site%3Astatcan.ca
45. Russia in Global Affairs. Russia as a European Nation and Its Eurasian Mission. 2005. September 30 2006 [39]
46. American Heritage Book of English Usage. Asian. 1996. September 29 2006. [40]
47. American Heritage Book of English Usage. Asian. 1996. September 29 2006. [41]
48. Census '90. Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States. 1990. September 1 2006. [42]
49. Lee, Sandra S. Mountain, Joanna. Barbara, Koening A. The Meanings of Race in the New Genomics: Implications for Health Disparities Research. Yale University. 2001. October 26 2006. [43]
★ Amerasian — a person fathered abroad by U.S. servicemen to women of Asian nationalities
★ Asian pride
★ Asian Latin American
★ Afro-Asian (Asian/African mixed ancestry)
★ Desi
★ Eurasian (Asian/European mixed ancestry)
★ Hapa — Hawaiian term commonly referring to Eurasians
★ Oriental
★ AZN
★ Race and genetics
'Asian people',[1] 'Asiatic' or 'Asian Continental Ancestry Group'[2] is a demonym for people from Asia. However, the use of the term varies by country and person, often referring to people from a particular region or subregion of Asia.[3][4] Though it may be based on residence, it is also often considered a "race" or an "ethnic group".
In the United States, Canada, and Australia, ''Asian'' refers most commonly to people of predominantly East Asian or Southeast Asian ancestry; however in the United Kingdom and Anglophone Africa, ''Asian'' refers most commonly to South Asians.[5]''The New Oxford Dictionary of English.'' 2001. New York: Oxford University Press. In other countries, the term is applied to both groups of people, or all people from Asia in general. In the US, however, Middle Eastern and Central Asian people are usually not considered Asian peoples.Lee, Sharon M. Population Reference Bureau. Asian Americans Diverse and Growing. 2006. September 10 2006. [5]
Definitions by country
Korea and Japan
As early as 1920, Japanese and Korean elites had a conception of Asia as the civilization of the East in contrast to Europe.Menon, Sridevi. Duke University. "Where is West Asia in Asian America?Asia and the Politics of Space in Asian America." 2004. April 26, 2007. http://socialtext.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/24/1_86/55.pdf
Malaysia and Singapore
In Malaysia and Singapore, their three largest ethnic groups, Malays, Chinese, and Indians, are all considered Asian.[6][7]
United States
Main articles: Asian American, Racial classification of Indian Americans
For purposes of the U.S. Census, the term "Asian" is a race defined as "people who have origins in the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia or the Indian Subcontinent. [8] Respondents can also report more specific ancestry, such as Chinese, Taiwanese, Filipino, Korean, Japanese, Malaysian, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Pakistani, Laotian, Thai, Asian-Indian, Cambodian, and so on, including "Other Asian". Someone reporting these ancestries but no race will be classified as "Asian". Central Asian Americans were classified as "Asiatic" on the 1910 US Census which legally hindered their immigration along with other Asians. Central Asian Turkish Americans were the targets of anti-Asian hysteria during the "yellow race crisis".[9] In United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923)[10] [11] Indian Americans' race was determined to be Asian.[12] Middle Eastern Americans are not included as Asians by the US Census.[13]
According to Sharon M. Lee in her 1998 publication, for many non-Asian Americans in the United States (in 1998) Asian American means Oriental, Chinese American or Japanese American. This is due to the Chinese and Japanese immigrants being the first Asian immigrants into the United States. Today, with the increasing demographic of Korean Americans, South Asian Americans and Southeast Asian Americans the definition among United States citizens of who is Asian American is expanding,[14] but in common usage Asian has only additionally included Filipino Americans, Vietnamese Americans, and Korean Americans.[15]
United Kingdom
Main articles: British Asian
In the United Kingdom, the term "Asian", though it can refer to the continent of Asia as a whole,[16] is more commonly associated with people of South Asian origin, particularly Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans.[17] The UK usage of the term "Asian" is reflected in the "ethnic group" section of UK census forms, which treat "Asian" and "Chinese" as separate (see British Asian).National Statistics. Ethnicity. 2005. August 27 2006. [15] Most respondents to the UK 2001 Census of non-Chinese East Asian and Southeast Asian descent chose to write-in their ethnicity in the "Other Ethnic Group" category rather than the "Other Asian" category, reflecting the association of the word Asian in the UK with South Asian.[18]
The United Kingdom, Anglophone Africa and Anglophone Caribbean are places in the Western world where the word "Asian" is used primarily to identify people from the Indian subcontinent. Due to the term's contested definition in British English, the use of the term "South Asian" is used for clarity in discussions in the United Kingdom on colonialism, discrimination, and migration[19] or when the content of its parameters may become mistakenly conflated with those of East Asian descent. [20]
Canada
In Canada, Asian refers to people from the Far East, Southeast Asia,[21] South Asia,[22] and West Asia[23]. Like the United States, in Canada the term Asian generally refers to the East Asian Canadians since they were the first Asian immigrant groups into Canada.[24]
Australia
Main articles: Asian Australian
Notably, the Australian Census includes Central Asia, a region that is often considered to be part of the Greater Middle East.[25] The Australian Census includes four regions of Asia in its official definition. Defined by the 2006-2011 Australian Census, three ''broad groups'' have the word Asian included in their name: ''Central'' ''and Southern Asian'', ''South-East Asian'' and ''North-East Asian''. Russians are classified as ''Southern and Eastern Europeans'' while Middle Easterners are classified as ''North African and Middle Easterners''.[26]
Anglophone Africa and Caribbean
In parts of anglophone Africa, especially East Africa and South Africa, and in parts of the Anglophone Caribbean, the term "Asian", though it can refer to the continent of Asia as a whole,[27] is more commonly associated with people of South Asian origin, particularly Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans.[28]
The United Kingdom, Anglophone Africa,[29] and Anglophone Caribbean are places in the Western world where the word "Asian" is used primarily to identify people from the Indian subcontinent, although in South Africa, Asian can refer to East Asians as well.[30]
New Zealand
New Zealand's census called Statistics New Zealand defines the Asian to include people of Chinese, Indian, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Sri Lankan, Cambodian and Thai ancestries.Statistics New Zealand. Asian people. 2006. December 4, 2006.[28]
Norway
Statistics Norway considers people of Asian background to be people from all Asian countries, including Turkey.[31][32]
Definition by individuals
Paul Thomas Welty
Paul Thomas Welty in his book The Asians Their Evolving HeritageWelty, Paul Thomas. The Asians Their Evolving Heritage Sixth Edition. New York:Harper & Row Publishers, 1984. ISBN 0-06-047001-1 claims that Asians refer exclusively to people of the "South Asian Subcontinent", "Southeast Asia" and "East Asia" (pp. 21).[33] The staple food of Asians is rice or wheat (pp.30)., but other common foods include barley, millet, corn, sorghum and sweet potatoes. Asian culture has been predominately influenced by the civilizations of India and China and the influence of Islam (pp.54). Asian people frequently live in large family systems often incorporating three generations under one roof, (pp.55). Asians have long valued education and literacy and have lived in societies led by a scholar class (pp. 365).
South Asians have characteristics in common (pp. 61). South Asians are a religious people who share the commonality of having been under British rule, (pp. 61). Due to their location between the Middle East, Europe, and other parts of Asia, they have come into contact with various other cultues, making their culture an amalgam of different cultures (pp. 61).
East Asians have characteristics in common (pp. 153). East Asians are connected by the commonality of Chinese cultural influence as well as Indian philosophy (pp. 158). East Asians are also mostly farmers except for modernized Japan (Welty, pp. 158).
Southeast Asians have characteristics in common (pp. 323). Southeast Asians are influenced by Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Confucism (pp. 326). Southeast Asians share the family system, poverty, and respect for teachers and learning (pp. 327). Due to the geography of many islands and coastal territory, Southeast Asians have been influenced by Indian, Japanese, Chinese and recently American cultural influences (pp. 329).
Sudha Ramachandran
Sudha Ramachandran, writer for the Asia Times, claims that China and India vie for the status of Asia's "''mother civilization''"Ramachandran, Sudha. Asia Times. "India has its own soft power: Buddhism." 2007. July 9, 2007. [29], but Indrani Bagchi who is also a Times Asia writer claims that India is the heart of Asian civilization because it is the origin of Buddhism.
Keith Lowe
Dr. Keith Lowe, race-relations expert for the Canadian government,[34] claims that Asian people refer to Central, South, Southeast and East Asians.[35]
Orientals and the Orient
The term "Oriental" (from the Latin word for "Eastern")[36] was originally used in Europe in reference to the Near East. It was later extended to the rest of Asia, but came to refer to Northeast Asians and Southeast Asians in the 19th and 20th century US,[37] where most Asians were Chinese (and later Japanese and Filipino). By the late 20th century, the term had gathered associations in North America with older attitudes now seen as outmoded, and was replaced with the term "Asian" as part of the updating of language concerning social identities,[38] which critics have derided as political correctness.[39]
Marginal Inclusion
West Asians
The name Asia is probably derived from ancient Assyrian.[40] It therefore originally referred to the regions now called "West Asia" and "Central Asia", the Sinai Peninsula to Persia and Asia Minor to Arabia. To the ancient Greeks, Asia usually referred to the Persian Empire, while to the Romans, Asia was a small region or, later, province at the Western end of Anatolia (now Turkey).
Clovis Maksound, Director for the Organization of Global South, argues that the term "Middle East" is a Eurocentric term denoting the region between Europe and East Asia, because it denies the Middle East's connection with Muslim North Africa.[41] In English parlance, Western Asians like Turks, Iranians, Cypriots, and Arabs,[42] and the Central Asians of the former Soviet Republics are not referred to as "Asian" by United States government agencies.
The Canadian government uses "West Asian" in its statistics; however people from the Arab countries are counted in a separate "Arab" category. [43] [44]
Russians
Most of Russia's huge territory is in Asia, though the majority of its population is in Europe and ethnically Slavic. Depending on context, Russian people may be considered European or mixed according to their individual ethnic nationality, ancestry, or appearance.
The word Eurasian is also often used to describe Russia's position in the world.
See also transcontinental nation[45]. Russians are generally not included in the term "Asian".[46]
Pacific Islanders
In normal usage Asian does not refer to the people from the Pacific Islands who are usually called Pacific Islanders.[47] The term "Asians and Pacific Islanders" or "Asia/Pacific" was used on the 1990 US Census.[48] As late as 2001, they were consided by most Americans to be the same racial group as Asians due to a perception of their implicit contrast to "whiteness".[49] However, in the 2000 US Census, many Pacific Islanders did not consider themselves the same social identity as Asians, and classified themselves separately.
References
1. "Asian". ''Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary.
2. United States National Library of Medicine. Medical Subject Headings. 2004. November 17, 2006.[1]
3. Aspinall, Peter J. Oxford Journals. Journal of Public Health. 2003. October 26 2006. [2]
4. Lee, Sandra S. Mountain, Joanna. Barbara, Koening A. The Meanings of Race in the New Genomics: Implications for Health Disparities Research. Yale University. 2001. October 26 2006. [3]
5. Color Q World. Clarifying the Definition of Asian. 2005. October 1 2006. [4]
6. 44th IFLA 2007 World Congress - Malaysia -Truly Asia
7. The paradox of low body mass index and high body fat percentage among Chinese, Malays and Indians in Singapore
8. Barnes, Jessica S. and Bennett, Claudett E. The Asian Population:2000. 2002. September 1 2006. [6]
9. Arab American Institute. Not Quite White:Race Classification and the Arab American Experience. 1997. September 29 2006. [7]
10. PBS United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind
261 U.S. 204 (1923). 2000. September 1 2006. [8]
11. TAKAO OZAWA
12. Assissi, Frank. Desparades. Are Desis White? 2006. [9]
13. Arab American Institute. Not Quite White:Race Classification and the Arab American Experience. 1997. September 29 2006. [10]
14. Lee, Sharon M. Population Reference Bureau. Asian Americans Diverse and Growing. 2006. September 10 2006. [11]
15. Katsiavriades, Kryss. Qureshi, Talaat. English Usage in the UK and USA. 1997. October 26 2006. [12]
16. Color Q World. Clarifying the Definition of Asian. 2005. October 1 2006. [13]
17. British Sociological Association. Equality and Diversity. Language and the BSA:Ethnicity & Race. 2005. October 26. [14]
18. Gardener, David. Who are the Other Ethnic Groups. 2005. October 27 2006. [16]
19. Aspinall, Peter J. Oxford Journals. Journal of Public Health. 2003. October 26 2006. [17]
20. British Sociological Association. Equality and Diversity. Language and the BSA:Ethnicity & Race. 2005. October 26. [18]
21. Asian Canadian. 2000. September 29 2006. [19]
22. South Asian Observor. Asians take Longest Route to Enter Spain Illegally. 2006. September 29 2006[20]
23. '2001 Census Visible Minority and Population Group User Guide' http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/Products/Reference/tech_rep/vismin.cfm
24. Aspinall, Peter J. Oxford Journals. Journal of Public Health. 2003. October 26 2006. [21]
25. World Atlas.com The Middle East. September 30 2006. [22]
26. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Australian Standard Classification of Cultural and Ethnic Groups Second Edition. 2005. August 20 2006. [23]
27. Color Q World. Clarifying the Definition of Asian. 2005. October 1 2006. [24]
28. British Sociological Association. Equality and Diversity. Language and the BSA:Ethnicity & Race. 2005. October 26. [25]
29. Sinha, Gayatri. Diatribe or art? The Hindu. 2002. September 29 2006. [26]
30. University of Maryland. Assessment for Asians in South Africa. 2003. September 29 2006. [27]
31. http://www.ssb.no/vis/english/subjects/02/02/20/innvutv_en/main.html
32. http://www.ssb.no/vis/samfunnsspeilet/utg/200604/10/art-2006-10-10-01.html
33. "The region called Asia in this book stretches from Pakistan on the west to Japan on the east and from the northern borders of China to the southernmost boundaries of Indonesia."
34. Ontario Multicultural Association. "Speaker Biography: Dr. Keith Lowe." 2007. July 29, 2007.[30]
35. Asian Heritage Month. "Credits." 2007. July 29, 2007. [31]
36. Cawley, Kevin. University of Notre Dame. Oriental. 2004. September 29 2006. [32]
37. Hu, Alan. Model Minority. On Asian and Oriental. 1993. September 29 2006. [33]
38. Bartleby.com The American Heritage® Book of English Usage. 2005. September 1 2006. [34]
39. Friedman. Haladina. The Politically Correct Handbook. 1992. September 1 2006. [35]
40. Think Baby Names. Origin and Meaning of the name Asia. 2006. September 9 2006. [36]
41. Katz, Elizabeth. Virginia Law. Democracy in the Middle East. 2006. September 9 2006. [37]
42. Lee, Sharon M. Population Reference Bureau. Asian Americans Diverse and Growing. 2006. September 10 2006. [38]
43. http://www.statcan.ca/english/research/89-621-XIE/89-621-XIE2007003.pdf
44. http://www.google.com/search?q=west+asian+site%3Astatcan.ca
45. Russia in Global Affairs. Russia as a European Nation and Its Eurasian Mission. 2005. September 30 2006 [39]
46. American Heritage Book of English Usage. Asian. 1996. September 29 2006. [40]
47. American Heritage Book of English Usage. Asian. 1996. September 29 2006. [41]
48. Census '90. Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States. 1990. September 1 2006. [42]
49. Lee, Sandra S. Mountain, Joanna. Barbara, Koening A. The Meanings of Race in the New Genomics: Implications for Health Disparities Research. Yale University. 2001. October 26 2006. [43]
See also
★ Amerasian — a person fathered abroad by U.S. servicemen to women of Asian nationalities
★ Asian pride
★ Asian Latin American
★ Afro-Asian (Asian/African mixed ancestry)
★ Desi
★ Eurasian (Asian/European mixed ancestry)
★ Hapa — Hawaiian term commonly referring to Eurasians
★ Oriental
★ AZN
★ Race and genetics
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