This poll is specifically geared towards people from the US, Canada and the UK. But everyone is welcome to take part.
It seems that there are different opinions of the meaning of the word “Asian” in America and the UK, even though both have significant numbers of people with East and South Asian ancestry.
So, what region do you first think of when you hear someone described as “Asian”?
Will you find much variance in US/Canada answers? In those countries, Asian almost always means China/Japan/Korea/SE Asia, South Asian means Indians/Pakistanis/etc., and Oriental means rugs or other exotic things and isn’t normally cool to refer to people. It’s not a completely racist term like many others, but does mark those who use it as hicks.
I voted East Asia, because the Indian subcontinent seems more it’s own thing, but if they consider themselves Asian (period), I’m certainly willing to defer to that. I’d like to know how that shakes out.
My main problem with “Asian” is that I’m never sure where the Europe-Asia and Africa-Asia dividing lines are. Once you get as far east as Iraq and Iran I’m good with Asian for the rest of the land mass.
I’m in the USA. I didn’t vote.
I’m in the US and I didn’t vote because I don’t think singly “south” or “east”. I always think…“well what part of Asia?” when someone says Asian. Possibly because I have friends whose ancestries are from all over Asia, south, east, southeast.
East Asia.
Of course.
East Asian, as long as Southeast Asian also counts. But there would still be a lingering doubt as to whether the speaker really meant South Asian, or both South and East Asian. I would rule out the middle east and North Asia, though.
Why no option for West Asia?
(Of course it wouldn’t be “North Asia,” because then you’d just say “Russia”.)