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Originally Posted by LAPhil

Those terms are meaningless because they combine religion with nationality, and the two elements have nothing to do with each other. The politically term which has never made sense to me is "Asian", which replaced "Oriental", which someone decided is now politically incorrect. "Oriental" was a more accurate term in my opinion because it referred to people from the Far East, whereas "Asian" theoretically could be someone from any part of Asia, which includes India, the Middle East, and most of Russia. However, no one refers to people from those regions as "Asians", as it's only used to refer to people from the Far East.

People from Asia identify themselves by nationality. They are not "Asians" until they get to America and are tagged with that description. And a lot of those populations hate each other - don't mistake a Korean for being Japanese.

Same everywhere else, even within nations - except for some indiscriminate labelers in the United States who, in the name of "diversity", come up with bullshit blanket descriptions like "African - American", "Mexican American", "Asian - American", and the king and queen of hollow labels - "Latino" and "Hispanic".