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26310, that's sort of similar to the US actually
Posted by 40thStreetBlack, Sat Mar-05-05 02:54 PM
>back home if we say 'asian' we mean japanese, korean and
>chinese only
>
>south-east asian for vietnamese, indonesian vietnamese, etc
>
>and Indian for Indian people. it's a big country and you can
>tell what they look like

Well asian in general in the US includes south-east asians, but not Indians/Pakistanis.

>and the fucking pacific peoples getting called 'asian' by
>you lazy americans???? whatdafuck is that about???

That's not really done actually, they're referred to as pacific islanders rather than asian. But aside from Hawaiians, most Americans would probably just call them Samoan, whether they're specifically Samoan or not. Like those guys you showed, most Americans would call them Samoan, nobody would call them asian.

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