It's the clock kid all over again.

[Martinus]

Bullying?  Attacking religious minorities?  Marty should be happy.  Clearly anyone who would dare defend this 12 year kid is an out of control Social Justice Warrior.

Gotta love being attacked by a nutbar before I even post in the thread. That's like preemptive stalking. 

No, you see stalking is when you send PMs demanding people kill themselves.  I don't do things like that.

Well played

Really? 

[Josquius]

Let all the kids of America know: If there's an Asian kid in your class that you don't like, just tell the teacher he has a bomb.

[garbon]

That wouldn't work in America seeing as how we use Asian only to describe East Asians.

[Admiral Yi]

Let all the kids of America know: If there's an Asian kid in your class that you don't like, just tell the teacher he has a bomb.

I'm not going to tell any kids this because they might end up in juvie for making terrorist threats.

If there's a kid you don't like, you need to trick him into saying he has a bomb.

[Razgovory]

Or just knock out his car windows with a bat.  That's good too.

[Eddie Teach]

Or just knock out his car windows with a bat.  That's good too.

Most kids don't own cars.

[Martinus]

So, Raz has been proven a fool again?

[derspiess]

That wouldn't work in America seeing as how we use Asian only to describe East Asians.

Boom.

[Barrister]

That wouldn't work in America seeing as how we use Asian only to describe East Asians.

Really?

The phrase "south asian" is a very useful one when you don't specifically know if a person is from Pakistan, India, Nepal, Balgladesh or Sre Lanka.

BUt yeah - nobody thinks of the middle east when they hear the phrase "asian".

[Admiral Yi]

A minor beef I have with "South Asian" (which I agree is a useful aggregator) is that Indonesia and those other guys reach further south. 

At least i think they do.

But yeah, average American hears "Asian" and they think of East Asians. 

[Eddie Teach]

Indonesians are fairly brown too though, aren't they?

[Barrister]

For being the world's 4th most populous nation, and the world's largest Muslim nation, Indonesia does tend to get forgotten, it is true.

[The Brain]

Happens when you don't have an active poster.

[Martinus]

BUt yeah - nobody thinks of the middle east when they hear the phrase "asian".

Nor of India really.

[Barrister]

BUt yeah - nobody thinks of the middle east when they hear the phrase "asian".

Nor of India really.

Maybe it's simply a factor of how many "South Asians" live in Alberta (including my neighbors on both sides, multiple poiticians, Calgary's mayor, 4-5 of my colleagues at the Crown's office) but I definitely think India when I think of Asia.