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[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

China. The Russia of Asia.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

Given most of Russia is in Asia, isn't Russia the Russia of Asia?

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago
[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I have a friend who does this every time I say "Asians". He's like "Which Asians? Indians?" And then it's a whole argument where he pretends not to know what the common reference "Asians" means.

[-] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In the UK they actually refer to Indians and South Asian people as Asians regularly, and Asians as East Asian (I think?).

Had like a full 10 minute conversation with someone where he was like "yeah you know that Asian kid you hang out with" and I thought he was losing it because there were no (east) Asian kids in our very small university.

[-] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I had a friend like that too, he was Sri Lankan and took offense that he was somehow not included in the blanket term of Asian. I've since learnt it's possible to be more specific and say South Asian for countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka etc, and south-east Asian for countries like Thailand, Korea, Indonesia, Philippines etc

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

This is the pointless Lemmy thread of Lemmy threads

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Along with this comment.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

sadly they probably don't

[-] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

My first impression was that they were Korean

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

They might be speaking Korean or just grunting. The Chinese subtitles were why I said China.

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