You are a stonethrow away from being in the "brown" category pretty much regardless of which Asian ethnicity you're from. I think most people (racists especially) consider Arabs, Indians, and Pacific Islanders to all be brown. Between those areas are China, Vietnam, Cambodia, etc. It shows just how absurd and arbitrary racism is that these places are all part of Asia, but they're still labeled differently as though there's some kind of blood magic that created these distinctions.

Make no mistake about it. It didn't matter what category Chinese and Filipinos were in when they were pressganged into building the western United States. It didn't matter what category Japanese-Americans were in when they were rounded up and put in camps. And it didn't matter Sikhs, Persians, and Indians weren't Arabs, they were all lumped together and became the targets of hate crimes following 9/11.

In the end, whitey will switch from calling us "the model minority" to calling us "removed" the moment we inconvenience them.