<story><title>The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes</title><url>https://www.thecut.com/2021/02/the-us-is-seeing-a-massive-spike-in-anti-asian-hate-crimes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gautamcgoel</author><text>Indian-American here. One thing I often find irritating about the phrase &amp;quot;Asian-American&amp;quot; is that it&amp;#x27;s usually used to refer to people with &lt;i&gt;East&lt;/i&gt; Asian heritage (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, etc). Somehow people with South Asian heritage, like myself, often aren&amp;#x27;t included in that category, to the point that my girlfriend was surprised to hear that Indian-Americans count as Asian-American.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kibwen</author><text>I think this is a symptom of the continent of Asia being so extremely large and diverse. To wit, every definition of Asia also includes the Arabian Peninsula, but most people would probably not intuitively classify Arab Americans as Asian Americans. The appropriation of &amp;quot;Asian American&amp;quot; to almost universally mean &amp;quot;East Asian Americans&amp;quot; is probably due to the lack of a specific, pre-existing demonym to describe people from that region. It&amp;#x27;s like how South Americans can be rightfully irritated that &amp;quot;American&amp;quot; gets used to refer to someone from the US, which is also partly due to the fact that no more precise demonym ever emerged (not in English, anyway).</text></comment>
<story><title>The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes</title><url>https://www.thecut.com/2021/02/the-us-is-seeing-a-massive-spike-in-anti-asian-hate-crimes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gautamcgoel</author><text>Indian-American here. One thing I often find irritating about the phrase &amp;quot;Asian-American&amp;quot; is that it&amp;#x27;s usually used to refer to people with &lt;i&gt;East&lt;/i&gt; Asian heritage (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, etc). Somehow people with South Asian heritage, like myself, often aren&amp;#x27;t included in that category, to the point that my girlfriend was surprised to hear that Indian-Americans count as Asian-American.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>The fact that Chinese and other East Asian people look far more similar and are the stereotypical &amp;quot;Asian&amp;quot; than Indians and other South Asians is responsible for that. Likewise, there&amp;#x27;s another comment here about the Russians (North Asians). To the average American, Indian and Russian are probably separate categories from Asian.</text></comment>