[Sherman Logan]

“Asian” in UK, not unreasonably, is generally used to refer to the largest group of immigrants from the continent of Asia, who are from South Asia: Pakistan, Bangladesh and India.

The same term in USA, equally reasonably, is used to refer to our largest group of immigrants from that continent, East Asians: Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, etc.

The term just means different things in the two countries.

[miss marmelstein]

Ah, so! That makes sense.

[Stepan12]

It cowardice on the part of not so Great Britain. It doesn't pinpoint the problem of Islam in England an everywhere else.

Sikh Federation in Britain accuse mainstream UK media of ignoring efforts to get them to stop using the generic (and virtually always erroneous) term ‘Asian’ when, in fact, what they should be labeling them is ‘Muslim..