A rose by any other name is still a name. hehe. I have a friend from Italy that told me that there they teach North and South America is one continent. I said, "Interesting, here they teach us they are two." She kept telling me they are one. I told her, "It doesn't really matter. It's just perspective. It's fine that you think that. I don't really care either way." And she just kept insisting on it.
I don't know about Europeans, but most Americans when they say Asian, are referring to people that we called Orientals, people with slanted eyes, (mainly Chinese, Japanese, Korean) when I was growing up. I always said, "I am half Oriental." We never called Eastern Indian people Oriental.
Now, I have to say, "I'm half Asian." I guess Oriental is like saying Negro.
What we call each other doesn't really matter so much. It's all semantics.
I'd like to hear what an Aboriginal or citizen of Australia would say if you called them Asian.
I am Chinese, Filipino, Spanish, German, Irish, French, and Portuguese. I am an American citizen, and I was born in Hawai'i. Other Americans call me Hawaiian, and I insist I am not. That is a race.
Other people have told me I am not Asian because I don't have slanted eyes. Well, Filipinos don't have slanted eyes, duhr, and uh, I think I know my ethnic heritage.
But, we're all just human anyway.
I played didjeridoo with an Aboriginal man in a dream, and I also did Tibetan throat singing with some monks in Tibet. man, that was kickass!
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