Asian or British?

Question

How can a British person be Asian or an Asian be British. This means British is white and Asian is dark, I heard on the TV the other day "looking for a British male of Asian decent" The colour thing is always going to be a dividing term isnt it?

Your missing the point guys, British and then asian added on the end means we are looking for someone born in Britain but whos blood lines are from pakistan, you can be british but never lose the colour tag do you

Answer 1

The term British is a cultural label and cannot be applied to race. For example I have Irish, English and, traced far enough back, French and Danish ancestry. But I'm British, and that is not just because I'm white.

If this man of Asian descent holds a British passport and probably was born here, he too is British whether you approve of it or not.

Answer 2

being British is where you were born
being Asian decent just means you know where your routes started from
I'm Irish decent but am classed as British
but both parents are from Ireland
it's nothing to do with colour race or anything else
if your dark skin or white the UK is NOT a white country only history make you think that way

we are multy cultural and should be proud of that
after all the world is a smaller place since the air plane was invented and the Internet
you could say the same about Africa being only black or India being only Asian but....
white people live there too
lets face it, it's just a way for each other to understand and hope can get on better with this understanding
i have many friends of so many races that it's not colour it's attitude
if you see the person not the colour then your have found what it's all about
people are really great regardless of where the come from or their perants are from

Answer 3

I get what you mean now, I think maybe people would misinterpret this. I think if you are born and raised in Britain then you are going to be British, no matter where your ancestors came from. I think my ancestors came from all over the place. We didn't al descend from ancient Brits did we. I hate when Asians say they are not British even though they have a brummy accent or whatever, we'll always keep a barrier between us if we carry on that way.

Answer 4

Thumbs up from me Scott, I understand where you are coming from. I was born on this "Sceptred Isle" but reserve the right to call myself what I like, when I like. Other members of society may choose to label me as falling within a number of categories and if it makes them feel more comfortable and able to make the assumptions that they feel are necessary in order to make an assessment of who they think I am, that's fine by me. However, I know who I am, and those who matter to me also know. If someone calls me a "bastard" for whatever reason, that doesn't necessarily make me one. Labels and categories are divisive and exclusionary - and I don't and won't play that game. Every person is an individual even if some would prefer the safety of the pack. Peace.

Answer 5

Asian

Answer 6

The word Asian means bollerks -it could mean Chinese, Indian,mongolian,anything east of the urals -you did geography at school right? Current media types are using it as a word to describe someone whose skin is a lovely shade of brown . I think it will go out of fashion soon enough.

Answer 7

So you're saying that people from north-eastern Russia are "dark", because they are Asian too.

You seem to be confusing ethnicity with geo-political origin.

"British" is an artificial concept. It originally covered Ancient Britons, Celts and Picts. The English (ie Anglo-Saxons), and "British" people of Afro-Caribbean or South Asian origin are more recent incomers.

Answer 8

No,it isn't. There are plenty of people born and raised here-ergo they are British Citizens-that a generation or so back that had family that moved here from Asia.
BTW, not all white people here are pure British. You've got many who are German,Dutch,Swiss,etc...

Answer 9

No, not necessarily.

Your nationality refers to your nation's birthplace, and your ethnicity is based on the ethnic group from which you descended from.

So in that scenario, his (or her) nationality is British, but their ethnicity is Asian.

The same as me being American, but my ethnicity is black, because my ancestors were of African descent.

Hope that helped. = )

Answer 10

A little pony , born any where in the world , remains a SHETLAND PONY.
Think about it, that should answer your question.