Thinking about it, is it just me or is "Asian-American" such a broad category that you'd think it'd be useless? It encompasses such a wide range of countries, cultures and times in which people from said cultures emigrated to the US that it's weird that people just get lumped within that umbrella
Thinking about it, is it just me or is "Asian-American" such a broad category that you'd think it'd be useless? It encompasses such a wide range of countries, cultures and times in which people from said cultures emigrated to the US that it's weird that people just get lumped within that umbrella
Full disclosure: I am a pale dumbass from Europe
Asian usually means East Asian in the North American context, but even then it's still an extremely diverse area of people.
Just thinking locally, it'd be weird if the Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Thai communities here were thought of as a single bloc
That's one consequence of being racialized
So are you Chinese or Japanese?
what ocean?
Eurasia = Asia -> you are an Asian-American
American race categories are just the worst, followed closely by every other racist categorization.
"Caucasian" wut
I do get a bit of a kick out of seeing Irish people called Caucasian. Abolish words for white people, they use them wrong.
:yes-sicko:
Yeah anything that includes Pacific Islanders and Indians and Siberians in the same category is going to be so broad as to be useless.
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I have to imagine that's mostly a UK thing. I don't think anyone would refer to eg a Bangladeshi person as "Asian"
Really hate "Asian American and Pacific Islander"
Literally just a lazy demographic category that was created when they realized Hawai‘ians exist but didn't want to make another checkbox.
I grew up with tons and tons of people who were mixed Asian AND Pacific Islander and never said weird shit like that.
It's too big of a category for sure
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