Hang on, the use of the term Asian can have some pretty negative connotations - certainly this is the case in the UK, especially in the light of recent failures by various agencies to deal with crimes committed by a very small subset of the population of that continent.
For starters, what the hell do you mean by ‘Asian’, you are talking of an area across five maybe seven time zones, with getting on for two thirds of the entire population of the planet, depending upon how you decide what is, or is not ‘Asian’
Just to let you know how it feels, try this on for size,
All you Americans are all the same, you know jack about geography and the demographics of other nations unless there is a war that involves American multinationals, with perhaps the added bonus of oil rights included, yes, that right ALL AMERICANS ARE LIKE THIS.
Now how do you feel about being nationally stereotyped?
So folks - or rather the politically correct Ofenderatti - just to point something out, if you really want to go the whole hog on **Septimus ** with your self congratulatory righteousness of political correctness, I will just mention, I do not wish to be called ‘Asian’ by such as you.
Instead you should refer to me by a far more localised term, instead of the insultingly generic term ‘Asian’ - which is what you use for little brown people who are not black and are from ‘somewhere over there’
Call me Indian, Burmese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian, identify me as Japanese, or Cambodian, perhaps go as far as Oriental Russian. - but Asian I ain’t.
What do you mean, you don’t know how to refer to me?
Why not bloody well ask! Instead of making the assumption that I am ‘Asian’ based upon my brownish appearance- that’s the pig headed height of nationalistic stereotyping rudeness
Just as Columbian, Mexicans et al are American every single bit as much as you are - its just that you don’t generalise about the Western continents as much as you seem to do about others. US ‘Americans’ like to refer to themselves alone in that term and exclude others who should also properly be called such, so why not try for the much more clumsy ‘USian’ which at least has the small benefit of being correctish.
Either that or get off his back.
At least ‘Oriental’ is a rather narrower term than ‘Asian’