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Do you think most group Asians into a category based on physical appearance or race more, or culture?
The US Census groups Asians as East, Southeast and South Asians and many Anglo countries really just use East and Southeast Asians as a grouping.
Do you think most people think of Asians as a "race" of people or more a cultural grouping of people that have more in common through things like civilization-related similarities, common writing or language, food, religion, music (though these are obviously diverse in Asia) etc. Many think of the East or Asians are those civilizations that had a mostly rice-farming based start and had at some point been influenced by the dharmic Hinduism or Buddhism.
Yeah colloquially in most countries Asians refer to the more Mongoloid ones, whether from Ladakh, Siberia or Java. Technically it often refers more to geography or culture.
Asian is more of a continental identity term but people use the term in conjunction with the Mongoloid inhabitants of the Asian continent and regions. Ethnically, tribally, they are not homogenous.
Asian is more of a continental identity term but people use the term in conjunction with the Mongoloid inhabitants of the Asian continent and regions. Ethnically, tribally, they are not homogenous.
Culture is more important than race or phenotype.
In most of the world and throughout history this has been the case. Americans on the other hand tend to see race first.
Do you think most group Asians into a category based on physical appearance or race more, or culture?
The US Census groups Asians as East, Southeast and South Asians and many Anglo countries really just use East and Southeast Asians as a grouping.
Do you think most people think of Asians as a "race" of people or more a cultural grouping of people that have more in common through things like civilization-related similarities, common writing or language, food, religion, music (though these are obviously diverse in Asia) etc. Many think of the East or Asians are those civilizations that had a mostly rice-farming based start and had at some point been influenced by the dharmic Hinduism or Buddhism.
A couple of years ago, I was walking down the hall of a major US Fortune 50 company headquarters and noted their new advertising campaign posters targeting Asians. One poster was in Korean, the other was in Chinese (no, I don't read either, but I recognize the difference). The image of the woman, however, was the same picture.
Non-Asian Americans generally think of race by the term "Asian" (including Filipinos), and the mental image is of north Asia peoples.
The idea that what is the perhaps the most arbitrary human quality, physical appearance, is the defining characteristic of human societies was cooked up by a bunch of intellectual half-wits in the West.
I don't believe that the idea of "Asianess" in Asia isn't really fully developed outside of geographical and some vague racial considerations. There are some cultural links to hash out the concept of "Asianess" for the eastern half of the continent of Asia. However, continental Asia in itself is a Western construct meant to represent the great "other."
The idea that what is the perhaps the most arbitrary human quality, physical appearance, is the defining characteristic of human societies was cooked up by a bunch of intellectual half-wits in the West.
No, that was cooked up by scientists in the West. It began with the modern taxonomy of species.
Yes to appearance but culture no, it is more inclined to Hispanic way of culture.
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