How is Asian considered a race but African, Eurpean, and Antarctian are not?

Question

In other words, why are Americans of Asian heritage considered Asian but Americans of African heritage or considered black? If you call a black person "African" it would be considered offensive (and inaccurate) as would identifying any person by their continent or country that they're not actually from, but their ancestors were.

Answer 1

1. Asian isn't a race. Just many people assume it is... they assume (group A) East, Southeast, Central and North Asians, are racially Asian... and West Asians and South Asians, aren't "Asian".



Asian a demonym that refers to the CONTINENT of Asia... but many people use it as a racial denominator. For example, in the USA and Canada, socially speaking Asian refers to "group A". However in the UK, Asian socially speaking, refers to South Asians. Back to the USA and Canada, "South Asians" in general are commonly referred to as "(East) Indians".



2. And lol... Antarctian... haha... they are no Indigenous inhabitants there.

Answer 2

Africa's a continent. Europe is a continent and so is Asia. American racial descriptors don't really make any sense, which is why these questions get asked every other day.



Indians and East Asians are all considered Asians.



Most people don't realize that "Black" is a slur that describes the people that came to this country through slavery, which is why Europeans will often say that Ethiopians are black, but they aren't Black. In the same way African Americans came from Africa but aren't considered truly "African" by most people.



Europeans are white. White people can have ancestry from non-white people but are still considered white if there non-white ancestry isn't obvious when looking at them. Most white people are Caucasian, a term that describes the racial differences in skull shape. But Indians who in many cases are darker than Black Americans and can be darker than many Africans, are Caucasian. Ethiopians are black, but they are also Caucasian. Black Americans are Black but they are nee-groid.



Genetically speaking, there are no "races". Race is a social, economic, political and cultural reality but only fifteen percent of our DNA accounts for racial differences. What you see when you look at distinctive groups of people are varying degrees of genetic frequencies in different "ethnic" groups.



Moreover the thing to remember is that it's a single race of people that decide the criteria for which everyone is assigned a race, so there are political reasons for why a person from Egypt for example with kinky hair and dark skin will be considered Arab, as opposed to Black in this country...

Answer 3

AFRICAN IS NOT A RACE. You could be White-South African and still be called African American. Believe it or not I know a white guy who has South African descent and received an African-American scholarship! I didn't believe it at first, but when I found out I was surprised.



Asian isn't really a race either; people just don't know what to call them considering the fact that we have Black and White however, calling Asians by their skin color is very offensive in their culture. So its better to be respectful.



Mongoloid is what you're looking for. But their isn't a term for society that has become famous for everyone to use.

Answer 4

many americans do not have a direct connection to europe or africa; as some decend from colonists who fought european armies; or had their african heritage torn out of them during slavery ; five hundred or so years later; they only know the usa; as the original country is forgotten or seen as foreign somewhat; but asian diaspora is said to arrive in the 1800s and later; and and still have a connection to asia; as asians are only 4% estimate of usa poppulace according to the 2010 usa census; so asian american is a tolerated term; the o word is seen as offensive; but black americans and white americans do know that africans and europeans are in their family line; some even study it; but in europe today is very much multicultural and a white american may still be seen as non european; since he/she is not born in europe; and black americans have to get dna tests to find what part of the old world they derive from; both with some exceptions; and some encounter racism from anti white or anti black racists who use africa or europe as an insult toward black or white americans; so these discourage some people from conecting to any non american region

Answer 5

Wait a MINUTE, European IS A RACE, is a race for White people, also, have you heard of African American? Well, it is actually African. According to America, they use the term African American for Blacks, but they never use the TERM EUROPEAN AMERICAN, I wondered why? Oh, is it because most Americans are White and they want to think that they are Americans and are White Americans. If Black people are called African Americans, than, white people should be called European Americans. This includes, Spaniards as well, it makes no sense how the Spaniards are in the SAME RACE AS MEXICANS, when they LOOK NOTHING ALIKE, I am talking about the mixed Mexicans, not the ones that are White skinned. So yeah, European Americans include Spaniards as well. America will never use the term to represent White people but they LIKE using the term African American for Black people. African Americans means, they are Americans but of fully African descendants. That's it. Some Blacks will get offended by it, however, they will be people who will be offended what people called them. .



I am Latin American by the way.

Answer 6

African is a race, we just call it black or African American

European is a race, we just call it Caucasian, which means east of the Caucus mountains which divides Europe and Asia (or just white)

No one was ever born in Antarctica so it can't be a race

Answer 7

Caucasian, Hispanic, Mediterranean, African American, Asian, Native American, there are many others when it comes to the census forms. You haven't looked very hard into this if you only think Asian is the only one.

Answer 8

Asian is not a race. It is someone from Asia. Which includes Indian and Russian people.

Answer 9

Asian is a demonym to describe someone in the continent of Asia

Answer 10

What Jericho said and to add something about Asians (as I am Asian) I think Asian people are called Asain because they look different. Like most people are white and we just don't call them anything as they basically outnumber us..

Answer 11

Actually most people WOULD envision a white person if you said European, and a black person if you said African.

Just saying.

Answer 12

I find it stupid. Plus how can Asians be one race. There are many different people in Asia, who dont look anything alike.

Answer 13

Ever hear of an African American?

Answer 14

Well, what else do you want to call them, "yellow?" That's offensive. It's all just labels.

Answer 15

Asian is an ethnic group.

Oriental is a race.