Re: Foreigners Taking Ugliest Filipina Girls
- From: "Cheeze" <csmarasigan@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 3 Nov 2005 21:48:37 -0800
InspiredPoet wrote:
> > You know they have a weird defintion of "asian" out there. Who else
> > aren't asians: arabs, white people in Asia (i.e. those former
> > russians), indians. Asian seems to be limited to the yellow race.
>
> In North America this is how it developed. It is not that way in Europe
> for one. Also, Russian people anywhere are not "former Russians" but
> are just Russians and are never Asians. Come'on, bring a Russian like
> that to any village in the Philippines and what will people say to him?
> "Hi, Joe" probably.
>
> Turks, Arabs and Indians are Asians.
>
> The reason things got out of hand like that in North America was
> because before you had Europeans, Asians, Africans and also Orientals
> as a more specific group. Asians was for any people in Asia- the
> MEsterners, the Indians and the Japanese, 'Oriental' was for East
> Asians ( and no, not the blond ones from Vladivostok). Then the word
> Oriental got banned and East Asian borrowed "Asian" and never returned
> it.
Okay but why are russions not asians? Granted they are historically
tied with Europe, but then, aren't the turks that way as well?
.
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