Posted by nigel on 04/19/07 09:39

F&C wrote:

>
> UK people must hear that the killings were perpetrated by an "Asian"
> person, and stupidly assume that the killer was Indian or Pakistani.
>
> Then they see the photo and get confused.
>
> People from the UK are so insular that they can't understand what an
> American or Australian person means when we say "asian".
>
> One reason is that the UK is not a true multicultural country. It is
> white people, with MASS IMMIGRATION of ONE other race (indian/paki).
>
> So they don't know anything about "orientals" from the "far east".
>

It's true that in the UK, people from the Indian subcontinent are
labelled 'Asian' and people of Chinese origin are labelled Chinese, so
reporting the Va shootings as being carried out by an Asian is confusing
to Brits.

On the other hand, prOn sites advertising 'Asian' almost invariably mean
'Chinese' or 'Japanese', otherwise they explicitly say eg 'Indian' or
'Iraqi'.

Another interesting UK usage is that Russian mafia heads who transfer
their assets to the UK become legitimised as 'oligarchs', eg Abramovich.

Evil Nigel

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