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betiko wrote:in every language people call the people they want to be friendly with "brother"... "bro", "brah".... you name it. Then each subculture (country, region, ethnicity, town, borough, family....) has its own idioms. I really don't understand your question in the first place.
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jonesthecurl wrote:In the UK when one says "Asian", it usually means someone from the Indian subcontinent (Indians. pakistanis. etc.). I was confused to find that it means people from further east in the US.
jonesthecurl wrote:In the UK when one says "Asian", it usually means someone from the Indian subcontinent (Indians. pakistanis. etc.). I was confused to find that it means people from further east in the US.
jonesthecurl wrote:I would say "oriental". It means "from the East".Of course, here in CA, the "Far East" is to my west, so that doesn't make a lot of sense at all...
I have heard that the term, in the US , can be considered demeaning, but I'm not sure why.
betiko wrote:jonesthecurl wrote:In the UK when one says "Asian", it usually means someone from the Indian subcontinent (Indians. pakistanis. etc.). I was confused to find that it means people from further east in the US.
It's also dumb to confuse native americans / american indians with real indians even for an american. the amount of indians living in the US compared to native americans is probably 10 times bigger.... and it's over a billion people soon to be the largest population on earth.... and they are the actual indians.
mookiemcgee wrote:betiko wrote:jonesthecurl wrote:In the UK when one says "Asian", it usually means someone from the Indian subcontinent (Indians. pakistanis. etc.). I was confused to find that it means people from further east in the US.
It's also dumb to confuse native americans / american indians with real indians even for an american. the amount of indians living in the US compared to native americans is probably 10 times bigger.... and it's over a billion people soon to be the largest population on earth.... and they are the actual indians.
Actually there are about twice as many 'native Americans' living in the US as there are 'people from India'. 5.2 million vs about 3 million. There is only about 350,000 Pakistani descent folks in the USA. Speaking from personal experience I interact with way more native americans that i do folks from India.
Ltrain wrote:mookiemcgee wrote:betiko wrote:jonesthecurl wrote:In the UK when one says "Asian", it usually means someone from the Indian subcontinent (Indians. pakistanis. etc.). I was confused to find that it means people from further east in the US.
It's also dumb to confuse native americans / american indians with real indians even for an american. the amount of indians living in the US compared to native americans is probably 10 times bigger.... and it's over a billion people soon to be the largest population on earth.... and they are the actual indians.
Actually there are about twice as many 'native Americans' living in the US as there are 'people from India'. 5.2 million vs about 3 million. There is only about 350,000 Pakistani descent folks in the USA. Speaking from personal experience I interact with way more native americans that i do folks from India.
I was surprised to see that your numbers are right. I guess growing up with a lot of Japanese, Chinese kids my age and then seeing the Indians move in I just assumed it was higher. I do live in a tech area (RTP) and most of the Indians here are in tech and a smaller percentage in medicine but still a large percentage of overall in the area.
It's funny cause the area I teach all my Indian kids in the neighborhoods are all Indian. I mean for miles around, no joke. Yet if you were driving through, you'd see all the same shit. Same grocery stores, same restaurants
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