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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:18:48 CST
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- From: samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
- Subject: Re: Asians
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- >>problem. "Middle Easterners" are fine, "Asians" are fine, but somehow
- >>neither includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and
- >>a little bit to the west, say Afghanistan and perhaps even Iran. Iraqis
- >> ...
- >
- >This is a near-perfect mapping of usage (minus the Greek business). But
- >why is what to call Indians a problem? You call them Indians. Pakistanis
- >and Afghanis et al. are called by their names. So what if "Middle Easterners"
- >or "Asians" excludes them? Linguistic illogic.
-
- Being excluded from "Asian" is not much of a problem. But I do feel the
- need for a word for (for want of a better word) "Indian subcontinental".
-
- Afghanistan doesn't really fit in, by the way.
-
- tushar
-