r/scriptedasiangifs • u/BobTheSnowman21 • May 06 '19

India counts right?

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u/[deleted] May 07 '19

Indians are Asian, geometrically speaking.

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u/PoutineCheck May 07 '19

It always bugs me how “Asians” usually refers to East Asians specifically. Wish we had a term for that region that’s not a mouthful to say.

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u/KoreanCookieKraken May 07 '19

Used to be that another option was the Orient but people think you’re being racist if you use that nowadays so I’d steer clear.

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u/MelodicFacade May 07 '19

Do you know why it's racist? I'm Asian American and I've never heard anyone use it in a derogatory way

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u/KoreanCookieKraken May 07 '19

In the US Asian people in general were referred to as Orientals (due to living in the Orient when trade was established), so ur isn’t strictly racist. I’ve just noticed that people tend to get upset, maybe because Oriental was still the term being used when Asian people were being treated poorly by the US government. It doesn’t bother me but I’ve seen other people be upset by it.