RE: And most of the ones we graduate here are either Chinese or Indian!
Well yes, but don’t forget the little Island of Taiwan. a significant number of Taiwanese students study in the United States. In the 2023–2024 school year, 23,157 students from Taiwan were enrolled in US colleges and universities. This makes Taiwan the sixth largest source of international students in the US.
The entire Island’s population is a little more than that of New York State.
Do we consider them Chinese?
“Do we consider them Chinese?”
They consider themselves Chinese - the official name for Taiwan is the “Republic of China”.
And by Chinese one usually means a particular group of people. So we have lots of Chinese here who are American citizens. The majority of Singapore is Chinese. And so on.
I am glad you mentioned Taiwan. My parents had a basement apartment in our home. We were three blocks from North Dakota State University in Fargo. Many of our tenants, either married couples or single were from Taiwan studying STEM courses, but especially Ph.D. students in the Coating and Polymers Materials program.
One of those student taught me to play chess. He was very good. I pretty much topped out as an advanced beginner.