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* There is also a SeparatedByACommonLanguage thing going on here: even in the highwater days of the British Empire, Britain's imperial reach never went much further than the Indian subcontinent (with the exception of Hong Kong and some scattered Pacific islands). for the United States, its dealings with Asia went west through its Pacific seaboard. Therefore expect confusion between Americans and Brits when the word "Asian" is used. For the UK, it means South Asians only[[note]]usually Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans though some may include Afghans, Maldivians, Nepalese and Bhutanese[[/note]] and in some rare informal context West Asians[[note]]meaning Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Armenians, Iranians, Turkish and Arabs from the Levantine and Persian Gulf regions[[/note]]. To Americans, it denotes the cultures immediately on the other side of the Pacific. British people, particularly of an older generation, might use a portmanteau expression like "Oriental" or "Far Eastern" to denote what Americans call "Asian". Same way American use the terms "Middle Eastern" and "Desi" for West Asians and South Asians respectively. This is slowly fading out and modern usage now tends to differentiate by nationality for Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Korean, et c. But never "Asian", which connotates the South Asians Brits are more familiar with - and here, both sides do the same thing and tend to mash all those separate cultures, ethnicities, religions and societies up into an all-purpose "Asian". "Indian food", for instance, is a mish-mash of different cuisines from Nepal to Sri Lanka, for pretty much the same commercial reasons detailed above. British Asian people tend to call people out on this. A lot.
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* There is also a SeparatedByACommonLanguage thing going on here: even in the highwater days of the British Empire, Britain's imperial reach never went much further than the Indian subcontinent (with the exception of Hong Kong and some scattered Pacific islands). for the United States, its dealings with Asia went west through its Pacific seaboard. Therefore expect confusion between Americans and Brits when the word "Asian" is used. For the UK, it means South Asians only[[note]]usually Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans though some may include Afghans, Maldivians, Nepalese and Bhutanese[[/note]] and in some rare informal context West Asians[[note]]meaning Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Armenians, Iranians, Turkish and Arabs from the Levantine and Persian Gulf regions[[/note]]. To Americans, Americans and Australians, it denotes the cultures immediately on the other side of the Pacific. British people, particularly of an older generation, might use a portmanteau expression like "Oriental" or "Far Eastern" to denote what Americans and Australians call "Asian". Same way American use the terms "Middle Eastern" and "Desi" for West Asians and South Asians respectively. This is slowly fading out and modern usage now tends to differentiate by nationality for Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Korean, et c. But never "Asian", which connotates the South Asians Brits are more familiar with - and here, both sides do the same thing and tend to mash all those separate cultures, ethnicities, religions and societies up into an all-purpose "Asian". "Indian food", for instance, is a mish-mash of different cuisines from Nepal to Sri Lanka, for pretty much the same commercial reasons detailed above. British Asian people tend to call people out on this. A lot.
