No- they are British national- of Asian descent.
Asian is a blanket term from anyone residing in the geographic region of Asia- which is enormous- they can be nergroid, mongoloid, melanesian even Caucasian.
An English is a Caucasian- it is not only a historical nation, but a race & ethnicity equally valid as the Innuit, the Navaho, the Cherokee, the Maori and any other indigenous native people.
The English are indigenes to England. Despite many denying English as a mere racist, social construct and attemptiong to discredit the English as a bastard mongrel race of Hugenots, Italians, Normans, Jutes, Danes, Gauls, Celts, Picts, Scotti, Bretons, Romans, Romany, Vikings, Angles and Saxons, the fact remains that all invaders were a minority.
Interbreeding or not, upwards of 80% of English are descended from Ice-Age hunters and in fact research indicates that Irish are in fact ethnically and genetically, English.
Thus English are a special race- no more or less so than the Javanese, the Dayak the Batak, the Han, the Okinawan aborigines- the list goes on.
A white born in Bengal or Java doesn't make him a Bengali or a Javanese, nor does an African born in Beijing make him Chinese, does it?
I think if you proposed such a thing to these people- you'd get a very healthy laugh. Even for an Indonesian, a Sundanese person born in Java (though the two regions adjoin and the two are ethnically and liguistically similar)- remains a Sundanese forever more- end of story)- the point being race and ethnicity are not merely Colonial racist constructs but very commonplace conepts held worldwide- why else do Australian aborigines even distinguish one from another such as the Kurnai people versus the Kimberley people?
2007-03-17 00:36:48
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes. A little girl once came to me and wept .... "I wish I was English, like you." She was my friend's daughter and had been bullied at school. It broke my heart that this lovely little girl was being bullied - punched, kicked, names called etc) because her skin was a little more brown than that of her bullies.
She had the same accent as them, she'd been brought up in the same town but she didn't feel English. I told her that she was as English as me because we'd both been born here except that she had more going for her than I did and than the bullies did. She could speak two languages fluently, she had access to two cultures, one so much more colourful than the other.
She would probably be more graceful than her bullies (have you seen how Indian dancers sway, it's beautiful)
She had parents who were more devoted to her than those of her bullies probably. It's a fact that family life is more important in Asian families and as I knew her family, I knew that her parents adored the socks off her.
I hope I cheered her up a little but it still broke my heart. She may not have been caucasian or of Anglo-saxon origin but since being English is a political designation, I would say yes. I never go by skin tone, I go by accent. If someone has an English accent then they're English.
2007-03-17 16:56:22
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answered by elflaeda 7
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no...Asians are born in Asia ....Englishmen are born in England ..Scots in Scotland , Welsh in Wales , Irish ...in Ireland ..simple really but you could be British and proud of it belong to all 4 what more do you want ..simply if born in UK your British ... no Asian ... no french etc etc ....so ...be proud of its heritage... but if born in UK you British ...
2007-03-20 11:49:30
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answered by bobonumpty 6
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*technically* yea; they're an english citizen. like ABC's, *technically* they're american.
2007-03-17 17:36:54
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answered by Banana 2
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give to Ceasre .
2007-03-20 23:32:28
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answered by Anonymous
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everyone is human first.
2007-03-19 17:58:41
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answered by Sarah J 6
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