Comment by pooper
8 hours ago
In my experience, people in the United States often (incorrectly) short hand East Asia as Asia just like the people in the city of New York will often (correctly) short hand New York City as New York.
8 hours ago
In my experience, people in the United States often (incorrectly) short hand East Asia as Asia just like the people in the city of New York will often (correctly) short hand New York City as New York.
> In my experience, people in the United States often (incorrectly) short hand East Asia as Asia just like the people in the city of New York will often (correctly) short hand New York City as New York.
In my experience, the only demographic who complains about “Asia = east Asia” are people from South Asia, aka Indians/desis
Ironically (for my generation in the UK at least) "Asian" meant "South Asian" and for a long time we didn't have a useful shorthand for "all parts of Asia"
Well, there are two things going on there:
1. "Asia" and "Asian" are different words, which mean different things.
2. There is a dialectal difference specific to "Asian" between England, where Pakistani immigrants are prominent, and the United States, where they aren't.
That might be a local thing, Hong Kong being a British colony means there's plenty of people in the UK for whom Asian means Chinese.
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People from South Asia are not "aka Indians". There are other countries.
We aren't the only ones, but we are the loudest about it, because erasure sucks.
Don't get me started about Macedonia.
It's an interesting evolution given that Asia as a term started out meaning just the westernmost tip of current-Asia, ie Western Anatolia.
When the term started out, There was nothing called United States (As a country or its current culture/s). And I am not sure if this happens outside the US anyway.
Still interesting, even so.
Slight correction, people in NY refer to it as “The City” and people in NYC say the same, but specifically mean Manhattan.