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What is "Asian"?

Asked by nicobanks (2926points) December 15th, 2009

Why are people from China, Japan, Korea, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, etc called “Asians” but not people from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc? They live on the continent of Asia too, don’t they?

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