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To: yinandyang

Ultimately, there is no such thing as an Asian, in terms of policies that can be tailored to win Asian votes. In political terms, the adjective Asian is merely an umbrella term used to cover a heterogeneous bunch of people. From a religious standpoint, for instance, every major religion under the sun is a majority in some country in Asia. Sri Lanka is majority Buddhist, India is majority Hindu, Pakistan is majority Muslim, China is majority pagan, Japan is majority Shinto, the Philippines is majority Christian, and so on.


23 posted on 02/27/2013 6:17:18 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei
Ultimately, there is no such thing as an Asian, in terms of policies that can be tailored to win Asian votes. In political terms, the adjective Asian is merely an umbrella term used to cover a heterogeneous bunch of people. From a religious standpoint, for instance, every major religion under the sun is a majority in some country in Asia. Sri Lanka is majority Buddhist, India is majority Hindu, Pakistan is majority Muslim, China is majority pagan, Japan is majority Shinto, the Philippines is majority Christian, and so on.

There's a myriad of cultures, languages, traditions and races between Istanbul and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii, so trying to cater to the "Asian vote" is an exercise in futility.

45 posted on 02/27/2013 7:19:07 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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