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“Asians” (media.scored.co)
posted 10 months ago by MLJFireDragon747 on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +60Score on mirror )
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cis_scum on scored.co
10 months ago 9 points (+0 / -0 / +9Score on mirror ) 3 children
It's amazing how a word that the Greeks used for Anatolians across the Aegean Sea 3000 years ago is still in use today and applied to people who have no connection to it whatsoever.

Neither Arabs/Pakis or Chinese should be called Asians really.

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ImBillCurtis on scored.co
10 months ago 5 points (+0 / -0 / +5Score on mirror )
“Oriental” or “Chinaman” worked fine.

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the-new-style on scored.co
10 months ago 3 points (+0 / -0 / +3Score on mirror )
Jews are Asian under modern rules
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Erase99 on scored.co
10 months ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 2 children
Yes they should, because they are in the continent of Asia. Our understanding of geography is better than it was 3,000 years ago, imagine that.
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cis_scum on scored.co
10 months ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 1 child
At least the greek term for the land just east of them "Asuwa" (asia), the nearest section of Anatolia, was precise and they always knew what was being referred to.

You can mention "Asians" and "Asia" today and have no idea who is being referred to. Jeets? Japanese? Indonesians? Pakis? It's a complete mess of geographical and ethnological terminology.
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Erase99 on scored.co
10 months ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror ) 3 children
And? "European" encompasses many differences. Finns and Sicilians and Portuguese are all very different, but can all be described roughly by the same word. I can say "bird" and you'd have no idea if I meant an owl, a starling, or a penguin without further clarification. That doesn't mean the word "bird" is useless. The same is true of "Asian". This is why we have different words for the people in it: Arabs, subcons, Eskimos, Orientals, etc.
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cis_scum on scored.co
10 months ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror )
There's some similarity between all Europeans. But between Indians and Chinese and Arabs? Might as well be on different planets.
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PurestEvil on scored.co
10 months ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror )
With the difference that when you think of "birds" you think of various birds that can fly and sing, you know, like most types do. But when you describe chicken as "birds", that's a little misleading. Alright, perhaps we should subdivide the word into "birds" and "feathered walkers", so that when we use the word "birds" it actually refers to those everybody thinks about.

The same way lumping together absolute subhumans like Indians with decent Orientals is just weird. That's also like calling absolute niggers "Europeans" because they acquired citizenship. I don't like that, which is why I will never refer to muslims or pejeets as "Asians", because I'd have to have malicious intent to mislead to do that. There is no way I'd do that with good consciousness.
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LesboPregnancyScare on scored.co
10 months ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
they are geographically on a continent but their culture, ethics, intelligence, and everything about them is completely different. Also India/Pakistan are separated by the largest mountain range in the world and the people evolved separately for thousands.
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the-new-style on scored.co
10 months ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror )
This shit again.

When you're population of Orientals is less than 0.5% and your Asian-Sub Continental population - who own commonwealth passports so can enter freely is 6% - which do you think you call Asians.

Now swap the % around for the US and do the same.

See?

Jews are Asian as are Qataris, Iranians, Turkey, Azerbaijanis, Lebanese, Iraqis, Tibetans ...

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