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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK!G
  3. Message-ID: <9301210845.AA25870@pizzabox.demon.co.uk>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  5. Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:45:31 GMT
  6. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  7. From:         G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
  8. Subject: Re: Maya's poem
  9. Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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  12. :By the way, nowadays it seems Indians (from India) are distinguished from
  13. :"Asians" for some reason. Around here at least, people keep talking about
  14. :"Asians and Indians".
  15.  
  16. That isn't surprising.  I never heard of Indians being referred to as
  17. Asians until the Ugandan expulsions, when the refugees were referred
  18. to as 'Ugandan Asians'.  Before that, Asians had pretty much always
  19. meant people from Asia, ie Chinese.
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  21. G
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