What are Asians called in your country?

[MasochisticAvenger]

I don't know about my country, but I call them whatever name they tell me to call them.

 

[DanielBrown]

"Asiat" in Sweden(asiater in plural)... which means Asian.
I think to most of us here that only counts for the people from the North and East part of Asia though.

 

[Simon Pettersson]

WTF is it with these threads ....

As DanielBrown said we call them "Asiater"

 

[Akimoto]

We go by the race - Indian, Malay, Chinese, India Indian, PRC, Thai, Filipino, Japanese and the occasional Ang Moh.

 

[Crenelate]

There are exceptions though, in Exeter where I study "Asian" takes on the U.S. meaning of an East Asian person since there are so many of them here compared to relatively few of any other ethnic minority.

NO WAY. I will need to keep an eye out for someone with a lobster on their head. And yeah, in Exeter, Asian basically means Chinese, in London it refers to the Indian subcontinent area.

 

[IamQ]

Asians?I don't know what else to say, I'm Swedish, we've never had any real historical interactions with the Asians. We didn't participate in WW2, so we never fought the Japanese. We (Obviously) didn't participate in the Vietnam war. Hell, even when it came to the trade back in time we didn't interact with them. We bought our stuff form the Turks who had bought it form the Asians.

 

[Terminal Blue]

In the States, 'Asian' usually denotes 'Oriental' (i.e. Chinese/Japanese/Korean/South-East Asian), while in most parts of the UK, 'Asian' almost exclusively means Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi (hell, even our damned Census forms agree)

Just to fuck up the terms even more 'Oriental' technically refers to the Middle East in European history and culture. It's only in America and quite recently that the term has come to refer to East Asians.

It's also slightly offensive to call someone 'Oriental', it references an idea that Asian people are all basically the same and have the same cultural background determined by their race.

But yeah, for me it depends on context. My British East Asian friends call each other Asian, so when I'm around them I do the same. If I was in a group of South Asians though I would specify 'East Asian' to avoid confusion, and vice versa.

 

[Abedeus]

Usually "yelloweys" (like some call us whiteys), or "egg yolk". Yes, from the color it has...

But some people just lump everyone as "Japanese", but with derogatory form.

 

[JoJo]

As SckizoBoy mentioned, here in the UK "Asian" on it's own is usually taken to mean someone from the Indian Subcontinent rather than someone from the rest of Asia, who will normally just be referred to as "Chinese" or "Turkish" etc depending on where they come from. There are exceptions though, in Exeter where I study "Asian" takes on the U.S. meaning of an East Asian person since there are so many of them here compared to relatively few of any other ethnic minority.

If I want to be specific, I usually use "South Asian" and "East Asian" to avoid any confusion.

Also inb4 any silly "we call them people" replies. Describing a dark-browned skinned person as "black" is no more dehumanising or separatist than someone describing me as "male" or "brown-eyed", it's a physical attribute.

I'm just nitpicking now...

But did you just indicate people of Turkish descent are Asian? 0_o

Eh... yes. 97% of their country lies on the continent of Asia, I think that's enough justification to label them Asian. From a racial perspective they're Caucasoid true but then so are most Middle-Easterners.

There are exceptions though, in Exeter where I study "Asian" takes on the U.S. meaning of an East Asian person since there are so many of them here compared to relatively few of any other ethnic minority.

NO WAY. I will need to keep an eye out for someone with a lobster on their head. And yeah, in Exeter, Asian basically means Chinese, in London it refers to the Indian subcontinent area.

Another Exeter person on the Escapist?

[HEADING=2]Great Scott![/HEADING]

Student or local?

 

[Amethyst Wind]

By their names, mostly. I know this one who's name is Omar. We call him Omar. That's if I know 'em of course, otherwise it'll be something like 'that guy' etc.

 

[dslatch]

I dont reprasent an entire country (Canada) but i just call them all chinese, calling them that gives me a higher chance of being correct.

 

[Crenelate]

Another Exeter person on the Escapist?

[HEADING=2]Great Scott![/HEADING]

Student or local?

Student. Oooo this is going to be weird, now everyone on campus could be an escapist in potentia

 

[SamuelT]

As SckizoBoy mentioned, here in the UK "Asian" on it's own is usually taken to mean someone from the Indian Subcontinent rather than someone from the rest of Asia, who will normally just be referred to as "Chinese" or "Turkish" etc depending on where they come from. There are exceptions though, in Exeter where I study "Asian" takes on the U.S. meaning of an East Asian person since there are so many of them here compared to relatively few of any other ethnic minority.

If I want to be specific, I usually use "South Asian" and "East Asian" to avoid any confusion.

Also inb4 any silly "we call them people" replies. Describing a dark-browned skinned person as "black" is no more dehumanising or separatist than someone describing me as "male" or "brown-eyed", it's a physical attribute.

I'm just nitpicking now...

But did you just indicate people of Turkish descent are Asian? 0_o

Eh... yes. 97% of their country lies on the continent of Asia, I think that's enough justification to label them Asian. From a racial perspective they're Caucasoid true but then so are most Middle-Easterners.

[...]

Oh hey. I just asked friend of mine, turkish, and apparently it's true.

http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/replicate/EXID15166/images/the_more_you_know2(1).jpg

 

[Qitz]

I usually call them hot.

Other than that? Asian, or 'Asain' as a lot of people spell it.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Asians. It's a blanket term used until you know the actual race of the people you are referring to here.

If they are Chinese, I refer to them as Chinese from then on. I'm not good enough to try and guess racial bloodline just by looking at a person. <.>

 

[TakeyB0y2]

Younger people usually just refer to them as Asians. Older people usually just refer to them all as Chinese, whether they're actually Chinese or not. It's kinda sad.

Canada by the way.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Aziaten, literal translation of Asians. This term is generally used for Eastern Asians, less so for people from the Middle East or former Soviet countries.