Comments on: Are Indians Asians?

By: Gurdit

Gurdit — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:29:36 +0000

Ignorant fool, Indians have been Asians since before you were born, in all probability. Either you’re trolling or you’re extremely stupid.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:47:14 +0000

You are INDIAN not asian. Sorry but I will die before Indians are classified with real Asian people like Koreans, Vietnamese, Japanese, etc.. Indian not Asian.

By: Bindiya

Bindiya — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:28:45 +0000

Us Indians are Asians. We’re from the Asian continent, it’s that simple. Whether the middle east is called the middle east it’s still in the Asian continent, geographically. I don’t understand the debate. Do all Asians have to look the same? Does everyone in the North American or Europeon continent look the same? Why can’t the some Asians look like East Asians(like the Chinese/Japenese/Vietnamese/Cambodian/Thialand/Malaysian/Singapore/etc.) and others look like South Asians(Indians, Sri Lankans, & Pakistan are ALL different) and still be able to be called Asian? I don’t think it’s too fair to boot us from Asia like that. I also don’t think the term ‘chink’ is fair as it’s been related to racist connotations. Also I tended to notice Chinese boys a lot, they’re cute.

By: Sandeep

Sandeep — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:33:36 +0000

My understanding is: Asians have narrower eyes, Indian have broader. All Asians look the same…oops, have the same name!
Asians are whites, Indians are not!

By: D

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:16:13 +0000

Im indian and im not brown im more tannish yellow i guess

By: D

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:15:14 +0000

Indians are Asian, what else would they be. People say they aren’t
because of the physical characterisitics the rest of Asia, but
logically they are Asian.

By: Anjali

Anjali — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:04:59 +0000

Stumbled on your site through twitter. Enjoyed reading most posts.
I hear you on this sentiment of “Are Indians Asians?”.
But while I always cringe at how brown people are always considered Indian irrespective of whether they are from India, Pakistan, Nepal or Sri Lanka, I also am guilty of considering all East Asians to be ‘chinky’, when they could be from China/Japan/Thailand/Korea/Vietnam/Cambodia/Singapore etc.

By: Anirban

Anirban — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:52:29 +0000

Same-to-same yaar. Only a sameless typo (Bengali homophone there).

I’m glad you think it is interesting too.
Take care.

By: Gurdit

Gurdit — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:09:19 +0000

“You’re mileage may vary, Dear Reader”
ANIRBAN, HOMOPHONE TYPO! Be ashamed.

And yeah, I thought I had an idea of what this post would be, I’ve seen in plenty of movies and stuff how Americans tend to classify Asians on the basis of how much they look like South East Asian countrymen (or women). However, yeah, the Russia debate has been on my mind for quite some time. It’s actually quite interesting to think about.

By: Anirban

Anirban — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:44:27 +0000

And the World Cup is now over.

Thanks for commenting. You’ve stumped me with that question. It is very hard to discuss race without getting into stereotypes.