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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!CS.UCHICAGO.EDU!SAMANT
  3. Return-Path: <samant@cs.uchicago.edu>
  4. Message-ID: <9301230757.AA12060@tartarus.uchicago.edu>
  5. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  6. Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:57:29 CST
  7. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  8. From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
  9. Subject: Re: Maya's poem
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  11.  
  12. >C'mon, people from Asia, i.e., Chinese??  Never heard that before. Indians
  13. >are Asians as are Chinese, Iraqis, Iranians, Israelis etc.  Most of the
  14. >forms that track such things have one box for Asians and Pacific Islanders,
  15. >if I remember right.
  16.  
  17. But it's true. "Asia" in most people's minds (as far as I know) is east
  18. of India, i.e. "East Asia".
  19.  
  20. tushar
  21.