“Asian” is limey PC for muzzie. If these thugs were Chinese, they’d have said so.
““Asian” is limey PC for muzzie. If these thugs were Chinese, they’d have said so.”
Nothing to do with PC and not a synonym for Muslim. Simply a common usage in the UK as a description of someone of Pakistani, Indian or Bangladeshi (mainly) descent.
For the simple reason that these were all part of the British empire and hence the earliest origin location for immigration from the continent of Asia into the UK. Thus, in a great number of areas, people’s first experience of a person from Asia would have been someone from one of these countries.
The usage predates any notion of Political Correctness being heard of in the UK.
I believe that the description ‘asian’ is also used in the US, but would be applied to a person of Korean descent, but not to a person of Indian descent? For, presumably, the same reasons that the opposite tends to be true in the UK.