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Asian people
Total population
	4,533,765,005 ; 59.4% of the total world population; (World population of 7.5 billion)
Regions with significant populations
South, East and Southeast Asians (Eastern Asians)	;
China (PRC)	1,384,688,986
India	1,296,834,042
Indonesia	262,787,403
Bangladesh	164,098,818
Japan	126,168,156
Philippines	100,006,900
Vietnam	97,040,334
Thailand	68,615,858
South Korea	51,418,097
Taiwan (ROC)	23,545,963
Cambodia	15,288,489
Hong Kong (SAR)	7,213,338
Singapore	5,996,000
West and Central Asians (Western Asians)	;
Iran	85,888,910
Turkey	81,257,239
Saudi Arabia	33,091,113
Syria	19,454,263
Kazakhstan	18,744,548
Jordan	10,458,413
United Arab Emirates	9,701,315
Israel	8,424,904
Lebanon	5,469,612
Palestine	4,683,000
Languages
	Languages of Asia (Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Japanese, Filipino, Indonesian, Korean, Persian, Thai and Vietnamese among other minority Asian languages)
Religion
	Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Shinto and others

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Asian people^[27] (Asiatic people or Asians)^[28] are the people of Asia. The term may also refer to their descendants.

Meanings by region

Anglophone Africa and Caribbean

In parts of anglophone Africa, especially East Africa and in parts of the Caribbean, the term "Asian" is more commonly associated with people of South Asian origin, particularly Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans.^[29] In South Africa the term "Asian" is also usually synonymous with the Indian race group.^[30] East Asians in South Africa, including Chinese were classified either as Coloureds or as honorary whites.^[30]

Arab States of the Persian Gulf

In the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, the term "Asian" generally refers to people of South Asian and Southeast Asian descent due to the large Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Filipino expatriate population in these countries.^[31]^[32]^[33] However, there are instances where the term is used solely to refer to those of South Asian descent.^[34]

Australia

The Australian Census includes Central Asia. The Australian Census includes four regions of Asia in its official definition. Defined by the 2006–2011 Australian Census, three broad groups have the word Asian included in their name: Central and Southern Asian, South-East Asian and North-East Asian. West Asians are classified as North African and Middle Easterners.^[35]

Canada

The Canadian Census uses the term 'Asian' pan-continentally. In its presentation of the "ethnic origin" results of the 2016 census, Statistics Canada under the category "Asian origins" includes: West Central Asian and Middle Eastern (includes "Arab, not otherwise specified"), South Asian, East and Southeast Asian, and "other" Asian origins.^[36]

New Zealand

New Zealand's census undertaken by Statistics New Zealand defines the Asian to include people of Bangladeshi, Chinese, Indian, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Vietnamese, Sri Lankan, Cambodian and Thai ancestries.^[37] In less formal contexts, the term Asian often does not refer to South Asian people.^[38]

Norway

Statistics Norway uses the term 'Asian' pan-continentally and considers people of Asian background to be people from all Asian countries.^[39]^[40]

Sweden

Statistics Sweden uses the term 'Asian' to refer to immigrants of Asian background from all Asian countries, including Western Asia/the Middle East.^[41]^[42]

United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, the term "Asian" is more commonly associated with people of South Asian origin, particularly Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans.^[29]^[43] The UK usage of the term "Asian" is reflected in the "ethnic group" section of UK census forms, which treat "Asian" and "Chinese" as separate (see British Asian).^[44] Most respondents to the UK 2001 Census of non-Chinese East Asian and Southeast Asian descent chose to write-in their ethnicity in the "Other Ethnic Group" category rather than the "Other Asian" category, reflecting the association of the word Asian in the UK with South Asian.^[45] Despite there being a strong presence of East Asians in the United Kingdom there are considerably more South Asians, for example the 2001 Census recorded 1.05 million people of Indian origin and 247,000 of Chinese origin in the UK.^[46] Peter J. Aspinall of the Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent, recommends privileging the term "South Asian" over the term "Asian", since the term "Asian" is a "contested term".^[43]

United States

Asian ancestries as defined by the 2000 U.S. Census.

In 1968, an Asian activist conference decided on favoring the name "Asian American" over the competing terms—"yellow", "Mongoloid", "Asiatic", and "Oriental"—since some Filipinos at the meeting thought they were "light brown" rather than "yellow" and the conference thought the term "Oriental" was Eurocentric, since they originate from lands "east" only from Europe's standpoint and, since the term "Oriental" suggested to them "passivity".^[47]

Earlier Census forms from 1980 and prior listed particular Asian ancestries as separate groups along with White and Black or Negro.^[48] Previously, Asian Americans were classified as "other".^[49] But the 1980 Census marked the first general analyses of Asians as a group, combining several individual ancestry groups into "Asian or Pacific Islander." By the 1990 Census, Asian or Pacific Islander (API) was included as an explicit category, although respondents had to select one particular ancestry.^[50]^[51]^[52]

The 2000 and 2010 U.S. Census Bureau definition of the Asian race is: "people having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent (for example, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam)".^[53]

Sandra S. Lee et al. (2001) said, in regards to the categories of the 2000 US Census, that it is difficult to determine why Asian Americans are a "race" while Latino and Hispanic are an "ethnic group." Lee said, referring to the Hispanic or Latino category, that the category of Asian Americans, quite similarly, comprises different populations of diverse origins. Lee said that people of South Asian origin were categorically identified as "Hindu," regardless of their religion, in the early 20th century. Lee said that the policy changed to classify people from the Indian subcontinent as "white." Lee said that, more recently, South Asian Americans were added to the long list of groups that comprise the category of Asian American. Referring to their classification as "Asian," Lee said that, in the United States, the classification of people from the Indian subcontinent depends on their historical location.^[54]

In 1930 and 1940, Indian Americans was identified as a separate race, Hindu, and in 1950 and 1960 they were racially classified as Other Race, and then in 1970 they were classified as White. Since the late 1970s, Indians and all other South Asians have been classified as part of the Asian ethnic group.^[55] Sociologist Madhulika Khandelwal described how "....as a result of Pan-Asian activism, South Asians came to be included as 'Asians' in the census only in the 80's. Prior to that many South Asians had been checking 'Caucasian' or 'Other'."^[56]

Respondents can also report their specific ancestry, e.g.: Syrian, etc. Someone reporting these ancestries but no race would be classified as "Asian". Furthermore, most "Western Asians", such as the Afghan Americans, Arab Americans, Armenian Americans, Assyrian Americans, Azerbaijani Americans, Chechen Americans, Georgian Americans, Israeli Americans, Jewish Americans, Kurdish Americans, Turkish Americans, Iranian Americans and Central Asian Americans have not lobbied to be included as Asians by the U.S. Census Board.^[57]

In normal American usage Asian sometimes does not refer to the people from the Pacific Islands who are usually called Pacific Islanders.^[58] The term "Asians and Pacific Islanders" or "Asia/Pacific" was used on the 1990 US Census.^[59] Even so, they are considered to be the same racial group as Asians due to a perception of their implicit contrast to "whiteness", as well as being a part of the wider Austronesian race.^[60]

However, in the 2000 US Census, the Asian or Pacific Islander category was separated into two categories, "Asian" and "Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander".^[61]

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^ Yen Le Espiritu. (1992). Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities Archived January 10, 2021, at the Wayback Machine. Temple University Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 978-1-4399-0556-2
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^ 1990 Census: Instructions to Respondents Archived March 15, 2012, at WebCite, republished by Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota at www.ipums.org Accessed November 19, 2006.
^ Reeves, Terrance Claudett, Bennett. United States Census Bureau. Asian and Pacific Islander Population: March 2002. 2003. September 30, 2006.
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^ Barnes, Jessica S. and Bennett, Claudett E. The Asian Population:2000. 2002. September 1, 2006. Census.gov Archived November 16, 2020, at the Wayback Machine
^ Lee, S.S., Mountain, J. & Koenig, B.A. (2001). The Meanings of Race in the New Genomics: Implications for Health Disparities Research. Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics 1, (1). Pages 43, 44, & 45. Wayback Machine link.
^ Campbell Gibson and Kay Jung. Historical Census Statistics On Population Totals By Race, 1790 to 1990, and By Hispanic Origin, 1970 to 1990, For Large Cities And Other Urban Places In The United States, Working Paper No. 76 (2005). See footnote 6 in paper
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[Global_Christianity-26] Analysis (December 19, 2011). "Global Christianity". Pew Research Center. Retrieved August 17, 2012.

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[MESH-28] United States National Library of Medicine. Medical Subject Headings. 2004. November 17, 2006.Nlm.nih.gov Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine: Asian Continental Ancestry Group is also used for categorical purposes.

[autogenerated5-29] British Sociological Association. Equality and Diversity. Language and the BSA:Ethnicity & Race. 2005. October 26. Britsoc.co.uk Archived November 1, 2006, at the Wayback Machine

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[32] ""Kuwait Asians" is a community website for the Indian, Sri Lankan, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Filipino expatriate population in Kuwait". Archived from the original on October 5, 2016. Retrieved January 15, 2016.

[33] "The source discusses the Asian Town complex in Qatar that was created for the Asian expatriate community from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh and the Philippines". Archived from the original on January 24, 2016. Retrieved January 15, 2016.

[34] Ltd, Time Out Guides (August 5, 2011). Time Out Dubai is a book written by local experts on travel in the UAE and the authors use the words "Asian" and "Filipino" separately. ISBN 9781407011783. Archived from the original on January 10, 2021. Retrieved September 27, 2016.

[35] Australian Bureau of Statistics. Australian Standard Classification of Cultural and Ethnic Groups Second Edition. 2005. August 20, 2006. Ausstats.abs.gov.au Archived January 10, 2021, at the Wayback Machine

[36] "Data Tables, 2016 Census". Statistics Canada. February 14, 2018. Archived from the original on October 26, 2017. Retrieved March 17, 2019.

[StatNewZealand-37] Statistics New Zealand. Asian people. 2006. December 4, 2006 Archived November 30, 2006, at the Wayback Machine

[38] For example, "Asian and Indian people" are referred to in the New Zealand Heart Foundation's BMI calculator Archived May 31, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.

[39] (in Norwegian) Immigration and emigration Archived January 10, 2021, at the Wayback Machine

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[47] Yen Le Espiritu. (1992). Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities Archived January 10, 2021, at the Wayback Machine. Temple University Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 978-1-4399-0556-2

[48] 1980 Census: Instructions to Respondents, republished by Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota at www.ipums.org Accessed November 19, 2006.

[GordonLee-49] Lee, Gordon. Hyphen Magazine. "The Forgotten Revolution." 2003. January 28, 2007.Hyphenmagazine.com Archived October 2, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

[50] 1990 Census: Instructions to Respondents Archived March 15, 2012, at WebCite, republished by Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota at www.ipums.org Accessed November 19, 2006.

[51] Reeves, Terrance Claudett, Bennett. United States Census Bureau. Asian and Pacific Islander Population: March 2002. 2003. September 30, 2006.

[52] "U.S. Bureau of Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on January 10, 2021. Retrieved December 11, 2017.

[USCensus2000Asian-53] Barnes, Jessica S. and Bennett, Claudett E. The Asian Population:2000. 2002. September 1, 2006. Census.gov Archived November 16, 2020, at the Wayback Machine

[LeeMountainKoenig2001-54] Lee, S.S., Mountain, J. & Koenig, B.A. (2001). The Meanings of Race in the New Genomics: Implications for Health Disparities Research. Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics 1, (1). Pages 43, 44, & 45. Wayback Machine link.

[55] Campbell Gibson and Kay Jung. Historical Census Statistics On Population Totals By Race, 1790 to 1990, and By Hispanic Origin, 1970 to 1990, For Large Cities And Other Urban Places In The United States, Working Paper No. 76 (2005). See footnote 6 in paper

[56] Chandy, Sunu P. What is a Valid South Asian Struggle? Archived December 5, 2006, at the Wayback Machine Report on the Annual SASA Conference. Retrieved August 8, 2008.

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[58] American Heritage Book of English Usage. Asian. 1996. September 29, 2006. Bartleby.com Archived February 16, 2006, at the Wayback Machine

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+| region3          = {{flagcountry|India}}
+| pop3             = 1,296,834,042
+| ref3             = <ref name="CIAWFIN">{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/india/|title=The World Factbook|website=Cia.gov|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=May 27, 2019}}</ref>
+| region4          = {{flagcountry|Indonesia}}
+| pop4             = 262,787,403
+| ref4             = <ref name="CIAWFID">{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/indonesia/|title=The World Factbook|website=Cia.gov|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=May 27, 2019}}</ref>
+| region5          = {{flagcountry|Bangladesh}}
+| pop5             = 164,098,818
+| ref5             = <ref name="CIAWFBA">{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/bangladesh/|title=The World Factbook|website=Cia.gov|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=May 27, 2019}}</ref>
+| region6          = {{flagcountry|Japan}}
+| pop6             = 126,168,156
+| ref6             = <ref name="CIAWFJA">{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/japan/|title=The World Factbook|website=Cia.gov|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=May 27, 2019}}</ref>
+| region7          = {{flagcountry|Philippines}}
+| pop7             = 100,006,900
+| ref7             = <ref name="CIAWFPH">{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/philippines|title=The World Factbook|website=Cia.gov|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=May 27, 2019}}</ref>
+| region8          = {{flagcountry|Vietnam}}
+| pop8             = 97,040,334
+| ref8             = <ref name="CIAWFVM">{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/vietnam/|title=The World Factbook|website=Cia.gov|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=May 27, 2019}}</ref>
+| region9          = {{flagcountry|Thailand}}
+| pop9             = 68,615,858
+| ref9             = <ref name="CIAWFTH">{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/thailand/|title=The World Factbook|website=Cia.gov|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=May 27, 2019}}</ref>
+| region10         = {{flagcountry|South Korea}}
+| pop10            = 51,418,097
+| ref10            = <ref name="CIAWFKS">{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/korea-south/|title=The World Factbook|website=Cia.gov|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=May 27, 2019}}</ref>
+| region11         = {{flagcountry|Taiwan}} (ROC)
+| pop11            = 23,545,963
+| ref11            = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/taiwan/|title=The World Factbook|website=Cia.gov|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=May 27, 2019}}</ref>
+| region12         = {{flagcountry|Cambodia}}
+| pop12            = 15,288,489
+| ref12            = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/cambodia/|title=The World Factbook|website=Cia.gov|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=February 15, 2020}}</ref>
+| region13         = {{flagcountry|Hong Kong}} (SAR)
+| pop13            = 7,213,338
+| ref13            = <ref name="CIAWFHK">{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/hong-kong/|title=The World Factbook|website=Cia.gov|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=May 27, 2019}}</ref>
+| region14         = {{flagcountry|Singapore}}
+| pop14            = 5,996,000
+| ref14            = <ref name="CIAWFSN">{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/singapore/|title=The World Factbook|website=Cia.gov|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=May 27, 2019}}</ref>
+| region15         = '''[[West Asia|West]] and [[Central Asia]]ns''' (Western Asians)<hr>
+| pop15            = #
+| region16          = {{flagcountry|Iran}}
+| pop16             = 85,888,910
+| ref16             = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/iran/|title=The World Factbook|website=Cia.gov|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=June 7, 2021}}</ref>
+| region17         = {{flagcountry|Turkey}}
+| pop17            = 81,257,239
+| ref17            = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/turkey/|title=The World Factbook|website=Cia.gov|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=Dec 31, 2019}}</ref>
+| region18         = {{flagcountry|Saudi Arabia}}
+| pop18            = 33,091,113
+| ref18            = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/saudi-arabia/|title=The World Factbook|website=Cia.gov|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=Dec 31, 2019}}</ref>
+| region19         = {{flagcountry|Syria}}
+| pop19            = 19,454,263
+| ref19            = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/syria/|title=The World Factbook|website=Cia.gov|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=Dec 31, 2019}}</ref>
+| region20         = {{flagcountry|Kazakhstan}}
+| pop20            = 18,744,548
+| ref20            = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/kazakhstan/|title=The World Factbook|website=Cia.gov|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=Dec 31, 2019}}</ref>
+| region21         = {{flagcountry|Jordan}}
+| pop21            = 10,458,413
+| ref21            = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/jordan/|title=The World Factbook|website=Cia.gov|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=Dec 31, 2019}}</ref>
+| region22         = {{flagcountry|UAE}}
+| pop22            = 9,701,315
+| ref22            = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/united-arab-emirates/|title=The World Factbook|website=Cia.gov|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=Dec 31, 2019}}</ref>
+| region23         = {{flagcountry|Israel}}
+| pop23            = 8,424,904
+| ref23            = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/israel/|title=The World Factbook|website=Cia.gov|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=Dec 31, 2019}}</ref>
+| region24         = {{flagcountry|Lebanon}}
+| pop24            = 5,469,612
+| ref24            = <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/lebanon/|title=Middle East :: Lebanon — The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency|website=www.cia.gov|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref>
+| region25         = {{flagcountry|Palestine}}
+| pop25            = 4,683,000
+| ref25            = <ref>{{cite web|title=Estimated Population in the Palestinian Territory Mid-Year by Governorate,1997–2016 |access-date=8 June 2014 |website=Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics |url=http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_Rainbow/Documents/gover_e.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140608204943/http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_Rainbow/Documents/gover_e.htm |archive-date=8 June 2014 |publisher=State of Palestine |url-status=live |df= }}</ref>
+| langs            = [[Languages of Asia]] <small>([[Chinese language|Chinese]], [[Hindi]], [[Arabic]], [[Bengali language|Bengali]], [[Marathi language|Marathi]], [[Tamil language|Tamil]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]], [[Filipino language|Filipino]], [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]], [[Korean language|Korean]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Thai language|Thai]] and [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]] among other minority Asian languages) </small>
+| rels             = [[Buddhism]], [[Hinduism]], [[Christianity]],<ref name="Global Christianity">{{cite web|author=Analysis  |url=http://www.pewforum.org/Christian/Global-Christianity-exec.aspx |title=Global Christianity |publisher=Pew Research Center |date=19 December 2011 |access-date=17 August 2012}}</ref> [[Islam]], [[Shinto]] and [[Religions in Asia|others]]
+| related          =
+}}
 '''Asian people'''<ref>"[http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/Asian Asian M-w.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071226203404/http://m-w.com/dictionary/asian |date=December 26, 2007 }}."  ''[[Merriam-Webster]]'s Online Dictionary.</ref> (Asiatic people or Asians)<ref name="MESH">United States National Library of Medicine. Medical Subject Headings. 2004. November 17, 2006.[https://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/mesh/2004/MB_cgi?mode=&term=Asian+Continental+Ancestry+Group&field=entry Nlm.nih.gov] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304110000/http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/mesh/2004/MB_cgi?mode=&term=Asian+Continental+Ancestry+Group&field=entry |date=March 4, 2016 }}: ''Asian Continental Ancestry Group'' is also used for categorical purposes.</ref> are the [[List of Asian countries by population|people]] of [[Asia]]. The term may also refer to their descendants.
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 ===United Kingdom===
 {{Main|British Asian|East Asians in the United Kingdom|British Indo-Caribbean people}}
+[[File:Sadiq Khan November 2016.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|[[Sadiq Khan]], [[Mayor of London]]]]
 In the United Kingdom, the term "Asian" is more commonly associated with people of South Asian origin, particularly Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans.<ref name=autogenerated5>British Sociological Association. Equality and Diversity. Language and the BSA:Ethnicity & Race. 2005. October 26. [http://www.britsoc.co.uk/NR/rdonlyres/4E70B7F7-58A1-43AB-A414-77F929A954D2/534/EqualityandDiversity_LanguageandtheBSA_RaceMar05.doc Britsoc.co.uk] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061101052823/http://www.britsoc.co.uk/NR/rdonlyres/4E70B7F7-58A1-43AB-A414-77F929A954D2/534/EqualityandDiversity_LanguageandtheBSA_RaceMar05.doc |date=November 1, 2006 }}</ref><ref name="Aspinall">Aspinall, Peter J. Oxford Journals.  Journal of Public Health. 2003. October 26, 2006. [http://jpubhealth.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/2/91 Jpubhealth.oxfordjournals.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110075200/https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/25/2/91/1504920?login=true |date=January 10, 2021 }}</ref> The UK usage of the term "Asian" is reflected in the "ethnic group" section of [[United Kingdom Census 2001|UK census forms]], which treat [[British Asian|"Asian"]] and [[British Chinese|"Chinese"]] as separate (see [[British Asian]]).<ref name=StatUK>{{Cite web |url=http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?ID=764&Pos=3&ColRank=1&Rank=176 |title=National Statistics. Ethnicity. 2005. August 27, 2006 |access-date=August 27, 2006 |archive-date=January 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110075123/https://www.ons.gov.uk/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Most respondents to the UK 2001 Census of non-Chinese East Asian and Southeast Asian descent chose to write-in their ethnicity in the "Other Ethnic Group" category rather than the "Other Asian" category, reflecting the association of the word Asian in the UK with South Asian.<ref name="ONS who">{{cite web|url=http://www.statistics.gov.uk/articles/nojournal/other_ethnicgroups.pdf|title=Who are the 'Other' ethnic groups?|last=Gardener|first=David|author2=Connolly, Helen|date=October 2005|publisher=Office for National Statistics|access-date=June 6, 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090530164748/http://www.statistics.gov.uk/articles/nojournal/other_ethnicgroups.pdf| archive-date= May 30, 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref> Despite there being a strong presence of [[East Asians in the United Kingdom]] there are considerably more [[British Asian|South Asians]], for example the 2001 Census recorded 1.05&nbsp;million people of Indian origin and 247,000 of Chinese origin in the UK.<ref name="ONS ethnicity">{{cite web|url=http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?ID=273|title=Population size: 7.9% from a minority ethnic group|date=February 13, 2003|publisher=Office for National Statistics|access-date=June 6, 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090527101447/http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=273| archive-date= May 27, 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref> [[Peter J. Aspinall]] of the Centre for Health Services Studies, [[University of Kent]], recommends privileging the term "South Asian" over the term "Asian", since the term "Asian" is a "contested term".<ref name="Aspinall" />
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 {{Main|Asian Americans|Racial classification of Indian Americans|Indo-Caribbean Americans}}
 [[File:RegionsofAsia-Census.PNG|thumb|left|upright=0.9|Asian ancestries as defined by the 2000 U.S. Census.]]
+[[File:Gene Trinh (29028720973).jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|[[Eugene H. Trinh]], a [[Vietnamese American]] biochemist who flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission [[STS-50]] as a [[Payload Specialist]]]]
-In 1968, an Asian activist conference decided on favoring the name "Asian American" over the competing terms—"[[yellow people|yellow]]", "[[Mongoloid race|Mongoloid]]", "Asiatic", and "[[Orient]]al"—since the [[Filipino people|Filipinos]] at the meeting thought they were "[[brown people|brown]]" rather than "yellow" and the conference thought the term "Oriental" was [[Eurocentrism|Eurocentric]], since they originate from lands "east" only from Europe's standpoint and, since the term "Oriental" suggested to them "passivity".<ref>Yen Le Espiritu. (1992). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1bw1jcp Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110075123/https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1bw1jcp |date=January 10, 2021 }}. Temple University Press, Philadelphia.  {{ISBN|978-1-4399-0556-2}}</ref>
+In 1968, an Asian activist conference decided on favoring the name "Asian American" over the competing terms—"[[yellow people|yellow]]", "[[Mongoloid race|Mongoloid]]", "Asiatic", and "[[Orient]]al"—since some [[Filipino people|Filipinos]] at the meeting thought they were "light [[brown people|brown]]" rather than "yellow" and the conference thought the term "Oriental" was [[Eurocentrism|Eurocentric]], since they originate from lands "east" only from Europe's standpoint and, since the term "Oriental" suggested to them "passivity".<ref>Yen Le Espiritu. (1992). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1bw1jcp Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110075123/https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1bw1jcp |date=January 10, 2021 }}. Temple University Press, Philadelphia.  {{ISBN|978-1-4399-0556-2}}</ref>
 Earlier Census forms from 1980 and prior listed particular Asian ancestries as separate groups along with ''White'' and ''Black or Negro''.<ref>[http://usa.ipums.org/usa/voliii/items1980.shtml 1980 Census: Instructions to Respondents], republished by [[IPUMS|Integrated Public Use Microdata Series]], Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota at www.ipums.org Accessed November 19, 2006.</ref> Previously, Asian Americans were classified as "other".<ref name=GordonLee>Lee, Gordon. [[Hyphen (magazine)|Hyphen Magazine]]. "The Forgotten Revolution." 2003. January 28, 2007.[http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/features/issues/summer03/theforgottenrevolution.php Hyphenmagazine.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071002114541/http://hyphenmagazine.com/features/issues/summer03/theforgottenrevolution.php |date=October 2, 2007 }}</ref> But the [[1980 United States Census|1980 Census]] marked the first general analyses of Asians as a group, combining several individual ancestry groups into "Asian or Pacific Islander."  By the [[1990 United States Census|1990 Census]], ''[[Asian Pacific American|Asian or Pacific Islander]] (API)'' was included as an explicit category, although respondents had to select one particular ancestry.<ref>[http://usa.ipums.org/usa/voliii/items1990.shtml 1990 Census: Instructions to Respondents] {{Webarchive|url=https://www.webcitation.org/66BwRtKHz?url=http://usa.ipums.org/usa/voliii/items1990.shtml |date=March 15, 2012 }}, republished by [[IPUMS|Integrated Public Use Microdata Series]], Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota at www.ipums.org Accessed November 19, 2006.</ref><ref>Reeves, Terrance Claudett, Bennett. United States Census Bureau. Asian and Pacific Islander Population: March 2002. 2003. September 30, 2006.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/p20-540.pdf#search=%22asian%20definition%20difference%22 |title=U.S. Bureau of Statistics |access-date=December 11, 2017 |archive-date=January 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110075208/https://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/p20-540.pdf#search=%22asian%20definition%20difference%22 |url-status=live }}</ref>
-The 2000 and 2010 U.S. Census Bureau definition of the Asian [[Race (human classification)|race]] is: "people having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the [[Indian subcontinent]] (for example, [[Bangladesh]], [[Cambodia]], [[China]], [[India]], [[Indonesia]], [[Japan]], [[Korea]], [[Malaysia]], [[Pakistan]], the [[Philippine Islands]], [[Thailand]], and [[Vietnam]])".<ref name="USCensus2000Asian">Barnes, Jessica S. and Bennett, Claudett E. The Asian Population:2000. 2002. September 1, 2006.  [https://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/c2kbr01-16.pdf#search=%22Asian%20Census%20PDF%22 Census.gov] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116102137/https://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/c2kbr01-16.pdf#search=%22Asian%20Census%20PDF%22 |date=November 16, 2020 }}</ref>
+The 2000 and 2010 U.S. Census Bureau definition of the Asian [[Race (human classification)|race]] is: "people having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the [[Indian subcontinent]] (for example, [[Bangladesh]], [[Cambodia]], [[China]], [[India]], [[Indonesia]], [[Japan]], [[Korea]], [[Malaysia]], [[Singapore]], [[Pakistan]], the [[Philippine Islands]], [[Thailand]], and [[Vietnam]])".<ref name="USCensus2000Asian">Barnes, Jessica S. and Bennett, Claudett E. The Asian Population:2000. 2002. September 1, 2006.  [https://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/c2kbr01-16.pdf#search=%22Asian%20Census%20PDF%22 Census.gov] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116102137/https://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/c2kbr01-16.pdf#search=%22Asian%20Census%20PDF%22 |date=November 16, 2020 }}</ref>
 Sandra S. Lee et al. (2001) said, in regards to the [[Race and ethnicity in the United States Census|categories of the 2000 US Census]], that it is difficult to determine why Asian Americans are a "race" while [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Latino and Hispanic]] are an "ethnic group."<!--This is in the last sentence, of the 2nd paragraph, of page 44. The context of it being in regards to the categories of the 2000 US Census is given by that paragraph and the previous paragraph, which is on the previous page.--> Lee said, referring to the Hispanic or Latino category, that the category of Asian Americans, quite similarly, comprises different populations of diverse origins.<!--This is in the 2nd-to-last sentence, of the 2nd paragraph, of page 44. The phrase "Quite similarly...," used in that sentence, refers to the Hispanic or Latino category, mentioned in the previous sentence.--> Lee said that people of South Asian origin were categorically identified as "[[Hinduism|Hindu]]," regardless of their religion, in the early 20th century.<!--This is in the 2nd-to-last sentence, of the 2nd paragraph, of page 45.--> Lee said that the [[Racial classification of Indian Americans|policy changed to classify people from the Indian subcontinent as "white."]]<!--This is in the last sentence, of the 2nd paragraph, of page 45.--> Lee said that, more recently, South Asian Americans were added to the long list of groups that comprise the category of Asian American.<!--This is in the 1st sentence, of the last paragraph, of page 45.--> Referring to their classification as "Asian," Lee said that, in the United States, the classification of people from the Indian subcontinent depends on their historical location.<!--This is in the 3rd sentence, of the 2nd paragraph, of page 45. The phrase "these individuals," used in that sentence, refers to "...those from the Indian subcontinent," mentioned in the previous sentence. The "categorization," mentioned in the 3rd sentence, of the 2nd paragraph, of page 45, refers to their categorization as "Asian," mentioned in the previous sentence.--><ref name="LeeMountainKoenig2001">Lee, S.S., Mountain, J. & Koenig, B.A. (2001). The Meanings of Race in the New Genomics: Implications for Health Disparities Research. ''[[Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics]] 1,'' (1). Pages 43, 44, & 45. [https://web.archive.org/web/20061101012859/http://www.yale.edu/yjhple/volume_1/pdf/033%20%28koenig%29.pdf Wayback Machine link].</ref>
-In 1930 and 1940, ''[[Indian American]]s'' were identified as a separate race, ''[[Hindu]]'', and in 1950 and 1960 they were racially classified as ''Other Race'', and then in 1970 they were classified as ''White''. Since 1980, Indians and all other South Asians have been classified as part of the [[Race (United States Census)|Asian ethnic group]].<ref>Campbell Gibson and Kay Jung. [https://web.archive.org/web/20051031073634/http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0076.html Historical Census Statistics On Population Totals By Race, 1790 to 1990, and By Hispanic Origin, 1970 to 1990, For Large Cities And Other Urban Places In The United States], Working Paper No. 76 (2005). See footnote 6 in paper</ref> Sociologist Madhulika Khandelwal described how "''....as a result of activism, South Asians came to be included as 'Asians' in the census only in the 80's. Prior to that many South Asians had been checking 'Caucasian' or 'Other'.''"<ref>Chandy, Sunu P. [http://way.net/sawa/desiaspora/02conf.html What is a Valid South Asian Struggle?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061205220353/http://way.net/sawa/desiaspora/02conf.html |date=December 5, 2006 }} Report on the Annual SASA Conference. Retrieved August 8, 2008.</ref>
+In 1930 and 1940, [[Indian American]]s was identified as a separate race, ''[[Hindu]]'', and in 1950 and 1960 they were racially classified as ''Other Race'', and then in 1970 they were classified as ''White''. Since the late 1970s, Indians and all other South Asians have been classified as part of the [[Race (United States Census)|Asian ethnic group]].<ref>Campbell Gibson and Kay Jung. [https://web.archive.org/web/20051031073634/http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0076.html Historical Census Statistics On Population Totals By Race, 1790 to 1990, and By Hispanic Origin, 1970 to 1990, For Large Cities And Other Urban Places In The United States], Working Paper No. 76 (2005). See footnote 6 in paper</ref> Sociologist Madhulika Khandelwal described how "''....as a result of Pan-Asian activism, South Asians came to be included as 'Asians' in the census only in the 80's. Prior to that many South Asians had been checking 'Caucasian' or 'Other'.''"<ref>Chandy, Sunu P. [http://way.net/sawa/desiaspora/02conf.html What is a Valid South Asian Struggle?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061205220353/http://way.net/sawa/desiaspora/02conf.html |date=December 5, 2006 }} Report on the Annual SASA Conference. Retrieved August 8, 2008.</ref>
-Respondents can also report their specific ancestry, e.g.: [[Ryukyuan people|Okinawan]], etc.  Someone reporting these ancestries but no race would be classified as "Asian". Unlike Southeast Asians, [[Afghan Americans]], [[Arab American]]s, [[Armenian American]]s, [[Assyrian American]]s, [[Azerbaijan|Azerbaijani Americans]],[[Chechen Americans]], [[Georgian American]]s, [[Israeli Americans]], [[American Jews|Jewish Americans]],[[Kurdish Americans]], [[Turkish American]]s, [[Iranian American]]s and Central Asian Americans have not lobbied to be included as Asians by the [[Race (United States Census)|U.S. Census Board]].<ref name=autogenerated1>[http://www.aaiusa.org/foundation/355/not-quite-white Not Quite White: Race Classification and the Arab American Experience] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060927220911/http://www.aaiusa.org/foundation/355/not-quite-white |date=September 27, 2006 }}, Arab American Institute, 1997, September 29, 2006.</ref>
+Respondents can also report their specific ancestry, e.g.: [[Syrian people|Syrian]], etc.  Someone reporting these ancestries but no race would be classified as "Asian". Furthermore, most "Western Asians", such as the [[Afghan Americans]], [[Arab American]]s, [[Armenian American]]s, [[Assyrian American]]s, [[Azerbaijan|Azerbaijani Americans]], [[Chechen Americans]], [[Georgian American]]s, [[Israeli Americans]], [[American Jews|Jewish Americans]], [[Kurdish Americans]], [[Turkish American]]s, [[Iranian American]]s and Central Asian Americans have not lobbied to be included as Asians by the [[Race (United States Census)|U.S. Census Board]].<ref name=autogenerated1>[http://www.aaiusa.org/foundation/355/not-quite-white Not Quite White: Race Classification and the Arab American Experience] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060927220911/http://www.aaiusa.org/foundation/355/not-quite-white |date=September 27, 2006 }}, Arab American Institute, 1997, September 29, 2006.</ref>
-In normal American usage Asian does not refer to the people from the [[Pacific Islands]] who are usually called [[Pacific Islanders]].<ref>American Heritage Book of English Usage. Asian.  1996. September 29, 2006. [http://www.bartleby.com/64/C006/007.html Bartleby.com] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060216060110/http://www.bartleby.com/64/C006/007.html |date=February 16, 2006 }}</ref> The term "Asians and Pacific Islanders" or "Asia/Pacific" was used on the [[1990 US Census]].<ref>Census '90. Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States. 1990. September 1, 2006. [https://www.census.gov/prod/cen1990/cp3/cp-3-5.pdf#search=%22pacific%20islanders%20%22not%20asian%22%201990%20census%22 Census.gov]</ref>
+In normal American usage Asian sometimes does not refer to the people from the [[Pacific Islands]] who are usually called [[Pacific Islanders]].<ref>American Heritage Book of English Usage. Asian.  1996. September 29, 2006. [http://www.bartleby.com/64/C006/007.html Bartleby.com] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060216060110/http://www.bartleby.com/64/C006/007.html |date=February 16, 2006 }}</ref> The term "Asians and Pacific Islanders" or "Asia/Pacific" was used on the [[1990 US Census]].<ref>Census '90. Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States. 1990. September 1, 2006. [https://www.census.gov/prod/cen1990/cp3/cp-3-5.pdf#search=%22pacific%20islanders%20%22not%20asian%22%201990%20census%22 Census.gov] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110075139/https://www.census.gov/prod/cen1990/cp3/cp-3-5.pdf#search=%22pacific%20islanders%20%22not%20asian%22%201990%20census%22 |date=January 10, 2021 }}</ref> Even so, they are considered to be the same racial group as Asians due to a perception of their implicit contrast to "whiteness", as well as being a part of the wider [[Austronesian peoples|Austronesian]] race.<ref name=autogenerated3>Lee, Sandra S. Mountain, Joanna.  Barbara, Koening A. The Meanings of Race in the New Genomics: Implications for Health Disparities Research. Yale University. 2001. October 26, 2006. [http://www.yale.edu/yjhple/volume_1/pdf/033%20(koenig).pdf Yale.edu] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061101012859/http://www.yale.edu/yjhple/volume_1/pdf/033%20%28koenig%29.pdf |date=2006-11-01 }}</ref>
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-As late as 2001, they were considered by most Americans to be the same racial group as Asians due to a perception of their implicit contrast to "whiteness".<ref name=autogenerated3 />
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-However, in the [[United States 2000 Census|2000 US Census]], the Asian or Pacific Islander category was separated into two categories, "Asian" and "Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander".<ref>{{cite web|year=1997|url=http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg/1997standards.html|publisher=White House|title=Revisions to the Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity|quote=The Native Hawaiians presented compelling arguments that the standards must facilitate the production of data to describe their social and economic situation and to monitor discrimination against Native Hawaiians in housing, education, employment, and other areas. Under the current standards for data on race and ethnicity, Native Hawaiians comprise about three percent of the Asian and Pacific Islander population. By creating separate categories, the data on the Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islander groups will no longer be overwhelmed by the aggregate data of the much larger Asian groups. Native Hawaiians will comprise about 60 percent of the new category. The Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander population groups are well defined; moreover, there has been experience with reporting in separate categories for the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander population groups. The 1990 census included "Hawaiian," "Samoan," and "Guamanian" as response categories to the race question. In addition, two of the major tests conducted as part of the current review (the NCS and the RAETT) used "Hawaiian" and/or "Native Hawaiian," "Samoan," "Guamanian," and "Guamanian or Chamorro" as response options to the race question. These factors facilitate breaking apart the current category.}}</ref>
+However, in the [[United States 2000 Census|2000 US Census]], the Asian or Pacific Islander category was separated into two categories, "Asian" and "Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander".<ref>{{cite web|year=1997|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg/1997standards.html|publisher=White House|title=Revisions to the Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity|quote=The Native Hawaiians presented compelling arguments that the standards must facilitate the production of data to describe their social and economic situation and to monitor discrimination against Native Hawaiians in housing, education, employment, and other areas. Under the current standards for data on race and ethnicity, Native Hawaiians comprise about three percent of the Asian and Pacific Islander population. By creating separate categories, the data on the Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islander groups will no longer be overwhelmed by the aggregate data of the much larger Asian groups. Native Hawaiians will comprise about 60 percent of the new category. The Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander population groups are well defined; moreover, there has been experience with reporting in separate categories for the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander population groups. The 1990 census included "Hawaiian," "Samoan," and "Guamanian" as response categories to the race question. In addition, two of the major tests conducted as part of the current review (the NCS and the RAETT) used "Hawaiian" and/or "Native Hawaiian," "Samoan," "Guamanian," and "Guamanian or Chamorro" as response options to the race question. These factors facilitate breaking apart the current category.|access-date=August 27, 2008|archive-date=March 15, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090315191301/https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg/1997standards.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 ==See also==
-* [[Afro-Asian]] (African-Asian mixed ancestry)
-* [[Amerasian]] — especially the offspring of a U.S. serviceman and an Asian
 * [[Asia]] – includes boundaries of the continent
-* [[Caucasian race]]
 * [[Dravidian peoples]]
 * [[East Asians]]
+* [[Pan-Asianism]]
+* [[Asian Values]]
 * [[Ethnic groups in Asia]]
 * [[Eurasian (mixed ancestry)|Eurasian]] (European-Asian mixed ancestry)
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