Just like "Whites", "Asians" are bunch of vastly different national, ethnic, cultural, and religious groups. Yet the affirmative action and quota bean counters lump them into one group.
I have to apologize for using the term "Asians" in discussing college admissions policies, because it is inappropriate. I'm sure there are marked differences in academic achievement and college admissions percentages among these various subgroups. (Even an Israeli is an Asian, but you can be sure that the bean counters consider him "white.")
Absolutely. The term “Asian” has a completely different meaning in UK than here.Over there it means South Asians, not East Asians as in the US.
I don’t even know if Indians are counted as Asians here. If they are, it would be very weird, as Indians have at least as much in common with Europeans as with Chinese or Koreans.
We used to have a perfectly good term for East Asians, Orientals, which just means Easterners, which is geographically accurate. But for some obscure, and to me unexplained, reason the term became politically incorrect.