I'm always puzzled that WN's seem to divide the world into 4 races - whites, Asians, Blacks and Jews. Realistically, the world is far, far more complex and suggesting there is a single asian people is counter-productive.   What do these people have in common?  1) A Muslim Pakistani soldier of Pathan origin, native language Urdu  2) A Flores Indonesian fisherman, Christian, of mixed Indonesian-Portuguese blood, native language Bahasa  3) A Cao Dao Buddhist Viet Namese doctor from Saigon, native language Viet Namese  4) A Buddhist monk from Pagan, Burma, native language Shan  5) A Hindu Tamil IT worker from Sri Lanka, native language Tamil  These people actually have nothing in common at all - not skin type, nor religion, nor language, nor lifestyle, nor genetic code nor ancestry nor common experience. Some may be natural enemies.  So why do so many WN's insist on referring to Asians and Blacks as if they were single people with single traits, habits, skills and faults? It's not just WNs who call them Asians everyone does that. At least here in the states, I don't know about where you're at. I don't like the term Asian as a racial category it's too broad of a term. I call East Asians...East Asians of course, or Orientals, East Asians aka Orientals= slant eyed people of East Asia. I call middle easterners....middle eastern, of course, or West Asians or by their particular ethnicity Arab, Persian, Turkish, etc... And for Indians, and people from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and parts of Pakistan and such, those are South Asians. I always hate how people use the term Asian for Orientals/East Asians, because Arabs, Persians, Indians etc are also Asian.:smilejap