On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 15:34:18 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
wrote:

>On Friday, June 4, 2021 at 12:01:02 PM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 14:57:03 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
>> wrote:

>> >I cook chicken breast by marinating it in Thai curry paste, garlic, fish sauce, cornstarch, and sugar and frying it at high temperature in a wok. I'll bet it would come out even better if I boiled the entire breast, cut it up, marinate and then fry.

>> Is a Thai an Asian?
>> Is an Indian an Asian?
>> Is an Arab an Asian?
>> Is a Turk an Asian?
>> Is a Vladivostokian an Asian?
>>
>> (just curious)
>>
>> --
>> Not Dave Smith
>
> If you're asking for my opinion, I pretty much follow the American usage of the word.
> Your terms will probably be different. The reality is that it doesn't
> matter what you or I call people that live over there and my guess is
> that they don't give a hoot what some guy living on a tiny rock in
> the middle of nowhere calls them either.

I'm interested in how you see this. If we weren't interested in what
other people think, we wouldn't be in a newsgroup. My guess is that
you only call the people that you idolise 'Asians', so that's
Japanese, Chinese and Koreans.

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Not Dave Smith