Talk:British Asians

Usage of the Ethnic slur `Paki' in Britain

I notice that the racist slur 'Paki' is used to identify all South Asians from Peshawar to Pondicherry. Not just used for Pakistanis but also Indians, Bangladeshis, Sri Lakans and possibly Afghan Pashtuns. South Asians are very racially ambiguous so that means that Kashmiri Omar Abdullah pictured here:http://www.the-south-asian.com/Nov2001/omar-abdullah1.jpg and Tamil M.I.A. pictured here:http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/blog/images/mia.jpg would both be classed as 'Pakis' due to being of South Asian origin. British Indians make up the largest ethnic minority in Britain so why isn't the term "Indi" used as the universal ethnic slur? Would I be right to assume that Princess Lalla Salma pictured here: http://www.gala.fr/var/gal/storage/images/le_gotha/leurs_bio/du_maroc_lalla_salma/images/lalla_salma_du_maroc/257639-1-fre-FR/lalla_salma_du_maroc_reference.jpg would be called a "N***er" in Britain because she is Moroccan and Morocco is a part of Africa? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.187.198.131 (talk) 20:30, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

ASIAN BRITISH

This article really, really needs renaming to Asian British, it is the correct term used by the British Government and UK National Statistics (this really cannot be argued), plus a search on Google for Asian British produced around 10 times as more results than British Asian did. Stevvvv4444 (talk) 19:57, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

I disagree searching for "Asian British" = 146,000 hits, while "British Asian" = 149,000 Pahari Sahib 19:06, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Asian British 38,600,000 Hits [1], British Asian 4,330,000 Hits [2], also most British Asian pages are about British rule in Asia (during the British Empire), fact cannot be denied — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.216.179.245 (talk) 19:15, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

These Google searches are picking up all sorts of other hits, not just ones about this particular group. A more refined search or better evidence is needed if you want to change it. Cop 663 (talk) 12:49, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Right this is a simple logisitical problem. People who are born in Britain are British if they are Asian they are called British Asian. Because That's what they are first: Britons. Also search engine hits are rarely taken into account when renaming articles. Your argument is very weak. LOTRrules (talk · contribs · email) 00:09, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

This page should indeed be changed to Asian British. They are first and foremost British, but that does not mean that the word British must literally be placed at the front; it is incorrect, and even insulting, to do so. They are people of Asian descent who are British, so the correct name would be Asian British. To say British Asian implies that they are only British in a civic sense; that the bottom line is that they are Asian. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolfehenson (talk • contribs) 08:09, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Images of Middle Easterners

Since numerous Persians, Afghans, Turks and Iraqis have Identified themselves as "Other Asia". Their images should also be included on the image board — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.220.11.171 (talk) 13:42, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

This is false, since the majority of Persians and Afghans who are Caucasian identify as White or White Other, not Asian. Iranians are not Asian. CreativeSoul7981 (talk) 09:00, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Read referece number 5! Most Iranians and Afghans identify as Other Asian! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.165.248.247 (talk) 04:48, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Just because they identify as other asians does not make them asians. The media would never class them as asians and neither would the government. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.102.101.119 (talk) 01:01, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

This is false. An Asian is an native inhabitant of Asia. If Middle Easterners were to identify themselves as "Other Asian" then they would be included in the census as the census is based on self-perception. Iranians and Afghans are not white and they would not be statistically classed as that either. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.223.179.135 (talk) 03:57, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

British Muslim Asian to differentiate from british hindu/sikh asian

i dont think any muslim wants to be included in the same group as hindus/sikhs. i suggest we have british muslim asian to differentiate from british hindu/sikh asian. since hindus and sikhs are the same religion and belong in the same group, they can have their page. muslims can have their page as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.214.95.110 (talk) 08:56, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Reply to the above:

1. I don't think any Sikh or Hindu would want to be included in the same group as a Muslim

2. Sikh and Hindu are not "the same religion"

3. The word Asian should be scrapped

4. British Sikh, British Hindu, British Muslim , British Chinese etc — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.36.167.22 (talk) 10:06, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

I echo the above comments, as i see the term asian as highly derogatory term to define the people of india. Term asian has no value what so ever & therefore should be scrapped immediately from wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.100.60.109 (talk) 21:40, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Koreans in UK

There are now a lot of Koreans in the Uk especially in New Malden and it should probably be represented here? Bigbotnot2 (talk) 16:00, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

@Bigbotnot2: That is mentioned at East Asians in the United Kingdom. It's true though that there is not much in this article about East Asians in general and that history could probably be better represented here. — MarkH₂₁^talk 18:48, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

They have their own article, Koreans in the United Kingdom. G-13114 (talk) 20:10, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

As the other editor recognised they should have been mentioned. Koreans and East Asians are British Asians too. Nothing wrong with mentioning more than once Bigbotnot2 (talk) 20:23, 14 June 2024 (UTC)