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Just a concerning question. I know many people nowadays say Asia is just China, North and South Korea, Japan and India. But I wanna hear what you think Asia is.

EDIT: In addition, I also wanna hear how you define an "Asian"

East of the Oder-Neisse.

The part of Afro-Eurasia east of the Urals, east of the Caspian Sea, south of the Black Sea, east of the Aegean Sea, and east of the Sinai Peninsula.

The piece of Eurasia east of the Urals, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea and north of Melanesia.

As in the asian continent ?

Solarys wrote:As in the asian continent ?

Um, duh. -_-

And the people.

By the bloody continent.

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:By the bloody continent.

It's part of a continent.

It's quite large.

Equalium wrote:

Solarys wrote:As in the asian continent ?

Um, duh. -_-

And the people.

Yes, as in i define it "by the bloody continent". Without europe in the mix that is.

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:By the bloody continent.

I'm from Afroeurasia.

Who says this?

Frisivisia wrote:

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:By the bloody continent.

It's part of a continent.

That depends on your definition of a continent.
Are there:
Seven?
Four?
Fifteen?

Any land or people 'from' or otherwise attached to the greater Eurasian plate, including the Indian and Arabian subcontinents.

Anything and anyone as west as Israel to east as Chukotka (Russia), and from north as Russia's polar extremes to Indonesia's southernmost part.

It is located to the east of the Suez Canal, the Ural River, and the Ural Mountains, and south of the Caucasus Mountains (or the Kuma–Manych Depression) and the Caspian and Black Seas. Anyone who lives in this region is Asian; whether you are an Arab, a Chinese, or an Indian.

When I hear Asian I think east Asian.

The continent to the west of the Pacific extending from Taiwan/Japan/Russia to Azores (Portugal).

I've also argued that as Polynesians are Austronesians (the same as Malays) they should also be considered Asian

Me

By the take out menus.

From Turkey and the Finnish-Russian border to Guam and that part of Russia that touches Alaska and all that. But nbt Africa, which is everything southwest of the Middle East until you reach the Atlantic, and Australasia (aka Oceania) which is everything southeast of SE Asia.

Asia is the continent, Middle East to Far.

Asian is far more interesting.

Ask an American about an Asian and they think Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, those styles of phenotypes

Ask most Brits about Asians and the image they have is that of an Arab, mainly Afghanistan, Pakistann, and west of there (India is generally not counted as Asian) which is funny, because we associate Asia more with the Chinese, but Asians are Arabs

The Asian continent IS from Istanbul to Vladviostok, but it is divided in to Asia, the Middle East, India, and Siberia.

So:

Asians- China, Korea, Japan, SE Asia.

Arabs and Middle Easterners- Pakistan and west to Istanbul.

Indians- derp.

Siberians- Russia

By the continent

I've always considered China, the Koreas, Japan, and southeast Asia to be Asia and the Middle East to be separate, but I watched a British documentary and they referred to the Middle Eastern immigrants to the UK as Asians and I was super confused. But then I looked at a map and realized that the Middle East is part of Asia after all.