[democratsaremyenemy]

No No No....she was not talking about Vietnamese refugees....they refer to arabs, mid easterners , as asian in Britain? Don’t know why but they do...

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

We refer to Pakistanis, Indians and Bangladeshis as Asian....

[icwhatudo]

You need to read the article. Yes, the word Asian is often used for muslim (like youths is used in France when the muslims riot) but in this case she was talking about Vietnamese refugees:

They show that in July 1979, Lady Thatcher met Lord Carrington, her foreign secretary, and William Whitelaw, then home secretary, to discuss the plight of hundreds of thousands of "boat people" fleeing persecution in communist Vietnam.

The prime minister, who had publicly said that she sympathised with fears that Britain was being “swamped” by immigrant cultures, reacted sharply to the ministers’ suggestions that thousands of the Vietnamese refugees should be welcomed.

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He said that according to letters he had received, opinion favoured the accepting of more of the Vietnamese refugees.