Do Indians consider themselves Middle Eastern or Asian?

[Ayush]

INDIAN....

 

[Black Widow]

Those who don't have identity beg for Identity..

India is one of the oldest civilization, Our civilization was 30,000 year ago when Earth was thriving it last ice age, Our Cities of Mathura were flourishing well...

15-20,000 year ago when ice melt, Mathura sunk into water. We Indian migrated to South (Tamil, Malyalam etc land) and we only migrated to north where we founded Indus valley civilization.

We Hindus from Bihar and Bengal went to Lanka and founded Sinhala religion. We Hindus moved to Afghanistan and founded kingdom.

We Hindus moved to Arabian penensula and made a kingdom (which later was ravaged by new religion founder Muhammad)...


We are Hindus, we are living fossils.. We are Hindusthani and We are oldest civilization alive...

 

[Asian.Century]

India itself was born out of 1947...which Pakistan succesfully separated. Indian are new terms, they r mostly African background ppl.

 

[ebr77]

Indian Subcontinent is the Word(India,Nepal,Bangladesh,Srilanka,Bhutan). We See Middle East as Different Region(in General).

we just like to think ourselves as South Asian

 

[Progressive1]

indians are closer to middle easterners , they look way moree like arabs than chinese/japanese.

 

[dreamer11]

Blacks are Original ,Whites & Mongoloid are somehow PURE races, rest of us all are just a mixture.

Anyway,We/Indians have a 5000+ years old continuous civilization why should we at all consider our selves with some desert living people??

 

[tower9]

Indians are South Asians. What a dumb question.

 

[Faith_Lock]

Asian pride is a real thing in the United States. It is very obvious within the East Asians. Southeast Asians also identify with it to a less degree. Indian are even less so.

It is completely isolated within the 2nd, 3rd generation Asians (though not complete yet). 1st generation Asian still see thing though their native countries.

The idea is there are so few Asian in the United States. They have no power within the political system within USA. It is an attempt to form a united common front to maximize Asian power.

Yes, here in Texas, a Chinese will vote Vietnamese candidate even though he is on the other party, or an Indian will vote Chinese candidate on another party. This phenomenon is getting more and more obvious with time.

 

[newb3e]

neither asian nor ME they are asspecial supa people from galaxy far far away!

 

[Jackdaws]

Asian pride is a real thing in the United States. It is very obvious within the East Asians. Southeast Asians also identify with it to a less degree. Indian are even less so.

It is completely isolated within the 2nd, 3rd generation Asians (though not complete yet). 1st generation Asian still see thing though their native countries.

The idea is there are so few Asian in the United States. They have no power within the political system within USA. It is an attempt to form a united common front to maximize Asian power.

Yes, here in Texas, a Chinese will vote Vietnamese candidate even though he is on the other party, or an Indian will vote Chinese candidate on another party. This phenomenon is getting more and more obvious with time.

While in the US, the term "Asian" had traditionally been used for Japanese and Chinese immigrants to the United States, this is not the case in the UK. In UK, the term "Asian" is almost exclusively used for Indians, Pakistanis, Banglas, Lankans and Nepalis. There is a historical reason - "Asians" from Japan and China emigrated to the US and Asians from South Asia did so to the UK.

 

[truthfollower]

Gaming servers considers Pakistan either in middle east or south east asia.

 

[JafarQureshi]

While in the US, the term "Asian" had traditionally been used for Japanese and Chinese immigrants to the United States, this is not the case in the UK. In UK, the term "Asian" is almost exclusively used for Indians, Pakistanis, Banglas, Lankans and Nepalis. There is a historical reason - "Asians" from Japan and China emigrated to the US and Asians from South Asia did so to the UK.

Wrong. This is what US has

https://www.census.gov/mso/www/training/pdf/race-ethnicity-onepager.pdf

 

[Han Patriot]

Depends which Indian you are, southern indians are closer to africans

 

[Jackdaws]

Wrong. This is what US has

View attachment 631336

https://www.census.gov/mso/www/training/pdf/race-ethnicity-onepager.pdf

Nope. I am not talking about legal terms. I am talking about historical use.

 

[Pan-Islamic-Pakistan]

Wrong. This is what US has

View attachment 631336

https://www.census.gov/mso/www/training/pdf/race-ethnicity-onepager.pdf

Good find.

Indian is Indian, there is simply nothing else he can pass off as.