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https://coloradosun.com/2025/02/07/whatd-i-miss-immigration-raid-equity/
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I'll grant that terms have different meanings in different regions. English is rife with it. But the term "South East Asia" is in reference to the part of Asia, not the direction you have to go to get there. If we went by that then all of Asia would be "West Asia" for me and most of America would be South America.
Well, there are plenty of countries that are Island nations that aren't even on the continent of asia and yet still count as Asian. Not to mention that it's understood Indians and Pakistanis originate in the caucuses. So it's all rather haphazard and irrelevant.
I don't know why you brought it up as if it was shocking.
Frankly it sounds like a hang over from orientalism (trying to hold onto regions defined in the Victorian era of Colonialism), so how about this: I call them Indians because they're from a nation state which in English is called India.
Maybe get over it and stop trying to "correct" people if you accept that different cultures have different linguistic conventions.
... different places have different push and pull factors in terms of migration anyways, and that was the topic. Some populations are pulled by being attached to the same landmass, others are pushed by factors like war. People from a war zone might just want peace rather than a specific destination country.
But you know where wasn't on the list the Wikipedia link provides? Europe, like I said, they're not even on the top ten list for countries of origin... Yet it's the focus of the character in the comic.
No, as far as I can tell - it makes sense when addressing migration to go by source countries. So there's a valid argument (despite what the comic suggests), to have some level of focus on migration from Mexico.
Not liking the fact there's a valid argument isn't the same as their not being a valid argument.
P.S India and China are two high population countries, so you're going to have to accept they get mentioned separately in conversations about migration. Declaring them both to be "Asia" doesn't really make sense for this context, the high populations present as different push factors in both countries.