Posted by M James Hunt on 04/24/07 14:33

On Apr 19, 6:19 am, F&C <n...@hottmail.com> wrote:
> UK people must hear that the killings were perpetrated by an "Asian"
> person, and stupidly assume that the killer was Indian or Pakistani.
>
Must we? Why are you telling us what to do?

> Then they see the photo and get confused.

What's so confuisng about it? I mean what we have is a light
sensitive electrical sensor and a lens that focusses light reflected
from the subject onto this sensor. Electronics then convert it to a
digital file and this is sent to websites, then sent to my computer.

> People from the UK are so insular that they can't understand what an
> American or Australian person means when we say "asian".

Uhm. I think the only possible diifculty is understanding why anyone
would arbttarily group about half the world's population into a single
category, and then accuse others of being insular.

> 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).

Isn't that two races?

> So they don't know anything about "orientals" from the "far east".

So, who was this person who was confused by the term "asian"?

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