They are Asian. But not the only ones. Chinese, Koren, and Japanese are sub-categories of the category 'Asian'.
Cool. So Cubans too?
Yep. I was wrong about 'Caucasian'. I'd only ever heard it used to describe white people, but upon looking it up it turns out the word essentially means 'not black'. Which really just makes it another example of my point.
You ignore the fact that the above does not hold true to billions and simply say the world is stupid and just because it's popular doesn't make it right.
Popular misuse is still misuse, yes.
Well, it's the US who are doing it, and as they make up less than 2% of the worlds population, they don't have the majority. Unless like with so many things they are assuming authority of something that is not theirs to claim. Especially on a language belong to the country they fought a war to disown.
Glad you brought this up. Gay is a colloquialism. It is not quite the same thing. What would make it the same thing is if Homosexuals instead adopted the word Homosapiens.
Further more, I love the 'gay AND lesbian' alliance. Gay is a colloquialism for homosexual. homosexual covers females therefore so does 'gay'. So that's a fun little redundancy that annoys me too.
So the dictionary says:
Theory:
1. a coherent group of general propositions used as principles of explanation for a class of phenomena: Einstein's theory of relativity.
2. a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural, in contrast to well-established propositions that are regarded as reporting matters of actual fact.
3. Mathematics. a body of principles, theorems, or the like, belonging to one subject: number theory.
4. the branch of a science or art that deals with its principles or methods, as distinguished from its practice: music theory.
5. a particular conception or view of something to be done or of the method of doing it; a system of rules or principles.
6. contemplation or speculation.
7. guess or conjecture.
I used the dictionary definition of the word 'Theory' to illustrate that some theories are accepted as fact despite the incomplete nature of the total body of work to date. Evolution seemed to be a good example as the number of millions of years between events are technically unconfirmed projection and may vary from actual evolutionary stages.
However you saw this as attack on evolution. Because you have this "you're either for us or against us" attitude about Evolution and think the Theory of Evolution is closed for discussion. So everyone either believes in evolution exactly the way you do or they don't believe in it at all. Therefore if I say, hmmm maybe this period in our proposed history took a million years less, and maybe we skipped this step or maybe there are other phases we are overlooking I must immediately be against the whole thing in general.
That's the most closed minded line of thinking I've ever seen. It's people like you that turn Evolution into a religion in itself by closing off all intelligent avenues of curiosity. Better tell all the scientist to pack it in and stop researching because apparently we know it all now, huh? Book closes.
Give me a break. I've known people who researched evolution related science for a living who welcomed my discussion on the matter. But there are so many people out there who just immediately call you an evangelist if you question one minor detail.
No, 'Asian' only has one meaning.
Asian:
1. of, belonging to, or characteristic of Asia or its inhabitants.
2. a native of Asia.
So ... ALL people from Africa are "African." "Black" people shall, going forward, be called "Afrocaribalesinese." That will exclude Egyptians, I hope. And the original argument, that some of the Afrocaribalesinese will claim that Classical Egyptians were in fact Afrocaribalesinese and not say Middle Eastern (insert other silly name here) or anything like that, will persist.
For some others, there will be no Afrocaribalesinese, because race is a social invention and not describable by biology (except for the Chinese and the Japanese). So in that case, the Classical Egyptians were just people like Germans or Russians, though possibly with some different physical traits, and Afrocaribalesinese never existed and never will.
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooookay...............
Race is a social invention?
More than anything it's a long term result of segregated breeding and inbreeding. So the whole thing's a bit iffy to begin with. But 'Asian' and 'African' are geographical references. They're collections of countries. You can't use 'Asian' to describe a more specific group within the confines of 'Asian' any more than you should desire to use 'human' as a specific grouping for a subculture.
I mean you might go to a school where 40% of the kids there are punks. But you wouldn't use the school's name as a another word for punk, especially not to replace the word.
You want a word to describe East Asians then construct one. But don't use 'Asian' it's the name of an extended group into which they fit. Hey try using 'East Asian'. If you were brain washed into saying "African American" surely you can handle that.