It's the clock kid all over again.

[Admiral Yi]

Do they ever tell you "Canada is most lovely country, but we are being very cold all the time?"

[grumbler]

My experience has also been that, if one uses the term "Asian," people assume that you mean East Asian.

There are a lot of South Asians living around here, as well, but I almost never hear the term (though I use it in teaching).  I think the word "Indian" is used in its stead, and those of South Asian extraction, of course, use their own national terms.

Indonesia is Southeast Asia.  You do hear that term a lot.

[Barrister]

The trouble with "Indian" is not only that lots of so-called Indians don't actually come from India, but we still have a fairly decent-sized aboriginal population as well.

Mrs B's and I's favourite Indian restaurant is simply called New Asian Village.

[crazy canuck]

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.

That is South East Asian 

I haven't heard the term East Asian before.

[crazy canuck]

Do they ever tell you "Canada is most lovely country, but we are being very cold all the time?"

No.  But then again I live in Vancouver.  I assume a lot of people say that in the North East US though.

[Razgovory]

So, Raz has been proven a fool again?

Oh, I hath been cut to the quick!  When Yi said school I thought of k-12, how foolish of me.  Will no one rid me of this turbulent Pole?  Pray that the lord God bring a blight on his potatoes so that he may be robbed of sustenance, and starchy companionship.

[Razgovory]

My experience has also been that, if one uses the term "Asian," people assume that you mean East Asian.

There are a lot of South Asians living around here, as well, but I almost never hear the term (though I use it in teaching).  I think the word "Indian" is used in its stead, and those of South Asian extraction, of course, use their own national terms.

Indonesia is Southeast Asia.  You do hear that term a lot.

It's a difference between Britons and Americans.  Britons think of the people they used to own.  Americans think of the people they nuked.

[grumbler]

The trouble with "Indian" is not only that lots of so-called Indians don't actually come from India, but we still have a fairly decent-sized aboriginal population as well.

Mrs B's and I's favourite Indian restaurant is simply called New Asian Village.

Yeah, that's the problem with Indian (except around here; Virginia has no recognized Amerind tribes).  And, around here, any restaurant with "Asian" in its title is guaranteed to be bad.  Unlike there, the ones with those titles around here try to make all the popular Asian cuisines, and, as you can imagine, no staff can do justice to them all.

[Eddie Teach]

I can't recall seeing any restaurants with "Asian" in the name. "Chinese", "Thai", "Indian" etc are all pretty common though. 

[grumbler]

I can't recall seeing any restaurants with "Asian" in the name. "Chinese", "Thai", "Indian" etc are all pretty common though. 

Come to central Virginia.

Or don't.

[11B4V]

My experience has also been that, if one uses the term "Asian," people assume that you mean East Asian.

There are a lot of South Asians living around here, as well, but I almost never hear the term (though I use it in teaching).  I think the word "Indian" is used in its stead, and those of South Asian extraction, of course, use their own national terms.

Indonesia is Southeast Asia.  You do hear that term a lot.

Easier just to say Apu for people from India and Injun for our savages. Helps with the confusion. Dothead works to.

[dps]

Virginia has no recognized Amerind tribes

Might want to double check that.

[Ed Anger]

So, Raz has been proven a fool again?

Oh, I hath been cut to the quick!  When Yi said school I thought of k-12, how foolish of me.  Will no one rid me of this turbulent Pole?  Pray that the lord God bring a blight on his potatoes so that he may be robbed of sustenance, and starchy companionship.

I laughed.

[grumbler]

Virginia has no recognized Amerind tribes

Might want to double check that.

Interesting.  Virginia has had a recognized tribe for almost 80 days, and I didn't know.  Good catch!

[Valmy]

Bully takes advantage of police incompetence to fuck with people? Sounds like that SWATing deal from the other thread.