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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!COE.DREXEL.EDU!RASHMI
  3. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
  4. Message-ID: <9301230741.AA01451@Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU>
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  6. Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:41:34 EST
  7. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  8. From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
  9. Subject: Re: Maya's poem
  10. Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
  11. In-Reply-To:  <9301220821.AA03726@cbis.ECE.Drexel.EDU>; from "G" at Jan 21,
  12.               93 8:45 am
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  15. > That isn't surprising.  I never heard of Indians being referred to as
  16. > Asians until the Ugandan expulsions, when the refugees were referred
  17. > to as 'Ugandan Asians'.  Before that, Asians had pretty much always
  18. > meant people from Asia, ie Chinese.
  19.  
  20. C'mon, people from Asia, i.e., Chinese??  Never heard that before. Indians
  21. are Asians as are Chinese, Iraqis, Iranians, Israelis etc.  Most of the forms
  22. that track such things have one box for Asians and Pacific Islanders, if I
  23. remember right.
  24.  
  25. -rashmi
  26.