[flaglady47]

Even in the United States a white person married to a qualifying person is ALSO, for purposes of administering the law, considered whatever the qualifying person is.
That, BTW, does not actually do a genetic change in the affected individual.

Sorry, but your response is just so much useless semantics. We go by what is today the norm, not by what indigenous group mingled with what other group way back when in history. Indians can consider themselves to be whatever color they want (Asian, by the way, is not a color). They are statistically and through common understanding considered Asian today. Live with it.

[muawiyah]

I was speaking of the law. The EEOC has rules that deal with the situation involving someone in an inter-racial marriage. Let's say you marry a qualifying American Indian, then your boss starts harrassing you about pow-wows, and so on.

You qualify!

As far as people from the Indian subcontinent being Asian, that may be true but they are NOT Chinese, Japanese, Vietnanmese, Korean or Pacific Islander.

I suspect you're not terribly familiar with the "Indian people" who live in Pakistan and Afghanistan, or even with most Punjabis who live in India.

Besides, these guys don't call it "Asia", they call it "South Asia".