How do British Asian people feel about being called "Asian?"?

Question

If someone called me "European," I'd tell them to **** off. Aren't most Asian people Chinese? Aren't most PEOPLE Chinese?

Answer 1

Although I do have Pakistani ancestry I do not feel at all Asian, not even a little bit. Therefore I'd like to be called British as that is what I am.

Answer 2

I think you just split your question and it caused confusion ;)

China has the highest population in Asia, so technically you are correct.. most people in the world are Chinese... but they still live in China. When classing by continent they would be referred to as Asian.

Same with India and Pakistan.

Personally.. I like it when the generations of immigrant Asians say they are English, Welsh, Scottish etc. That I respect quite a lot. It doesn't mean you have to ignore your ancestory though, you should still be proud of your family background as well as being proud of where you are born.

Answer 3

The Philippines is in asia so sure you're considered an Asian and/or pacific islander. anyhow what are you attempting to ask? the guy you've been talking to is like 12 years previous, and many fillipinos do argue that they are not considered asian, even although they're in southeast asia. more effective information on Phillipines: The Philippines (Filipino: Pilipinas), formally the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas; RP), is an archipelagic u . s . positioned in Southeast Asia, with Manila as its capital city. The Philippine archipelago consists of 7,107 islands contained in the western Pacific Ocean, bordering international places alongside with Indonesia, Malaysia, Palau and the Republic of China, in spite of the undeniable fact that it truly is the in consumer-friendly words Southeast Asian u . s . to percentage no land borders with its acquaintances. The Philippines is the international's twelfth maximum populous u . s . with a inhabitants drawing close 87 million human beings.[3] Its nationwide monetary device is the 40 seventh best contained in the international with a 2006 gross kinfolk product (GDP) of over US$117.562 billion.[3] There are more effective than 11 million distant places Filipinos international, about 11% of the completed inhabitants of the Philippines. The Philippines become in the previous a Spanish then an American colony. The Philippine Revolution become an attempt to achieve independence from Spain, and later from the U.S. contained in the Philippine-American warfare. The Philippines ultimately received its independence from the U. S. on July 4, 1946 after the Pacific warfare by ability of the Treaty of Manila. The Philippines then grew to grow to be a fledging democracy till the authoritarian rule of Ferdinand Marcos delivered about his overthrow contained in the human beings ability Revolution of 1986. Political upheavals alternated with non violent transition of ability on the era that said.[2]

Answer 4

People from Far Eastern Asia bearing the name 'Asian' with pride is what I can tell you. I don't think British Asian should have any problem with that. But, DO NOT CONFUSE ASIANS, LOCAL OR FOREIGN, WITH COMMUNIST CHINESE. It's blatantly an insult.

Answer 5

You have a simple problem --- Europeans come from in Europe African come from Africa, Asians come from Asia.....
Where do you come from? if Europe then you are registered on your birth certificate in Europe and your ID and details are European. If people would stand at the boarder and say Asian one side ... Europeans one side ..... isnt you will use your passport to prove that you come from Europe that is your official status. May be what is the only confusion is your decendency....your parents came from Asia .... your parents are Asians but not you (only your physical traits are Asian)

Answer 6

What's wrong with considering them British people of Asian background... none I say.
[But I am white]
Sir Charles, the Cheeky

Answer 7

I am sorry you are from some other ethnic group not being European or Asian. If you are white then your ethnic group is European, If you are black then probably Afro, if you have slant eyes then probably Asian and if a light Chocolate color Indian, or Indo-asian.
I guess that that means you are possibly green, is that Martian?

Answer 8

despite the fact i dont often reply to stupid questions i dont mind releiving you of your role as the pinnacle of stupidity. Firstly the fact that you would take offence to being called european when you are means that you clearly cant grasp the the difference between chink and chinese, paki and pakistan and frogs instead of french. The very idea that you would make such a bold statement that most people are chinese is just..... forget it!

Answer 9

i was born and bred in the uk, i consider myself english but due to my ethnicity people call me asian, im just so confused lol.

Answer 10

Feel asian? how shallow. I dint kno one cud ''feel'' their ancestry. They are British Asian arent they. Does it really matter?