`  == Intro definition ==  ``As with other racial and ethnicity based terms, formal and common usage have changed markedly through the short history of this term.``  This wikipedia article's definition of asian is ``persons of east, southeast or south asian race``, so how can the term asian be called a racial or ethnicity based term? East asians and south asians for example are as racially close as eskimos are with africans.  I think ``racial and ethnicity`` should be changed to a more appropriate designation. The term asian as defined by this article has no racial implication or if there is one, it is defined as ``other than white but not black or hispanic``.`