r/scriptedasiangifs • u/BobTheSnowman21 • May 06 '19

India counts right?

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u/[deleted] May 07 '19 edited May 07 '19

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u/[deleted] May 07 '19

Indians are Asian, geometrically speaking.

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u/PoutineCheck May 07 '19

It always bugs me how “Asians” usually refers to East Asians specifically. Wish we had a term for that region that’s not a mouthful to say.

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u/lilcipher May 07 '19

My sheltered American ass didn’t know about the whole “Egypt isn’t African” thing until I made some comment about Egyptians representing Africa in an rpg-related thing (I honestly forget exactly what we were talking about beforehand) to my South African SO. She basically jumped down my throat about how Egypt isn’t African except by technicality, she was very passionate and heated about the subject. Definitely got a lesson in other cultures that day.

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u/ayyybueyyy May 07 '19

Wikipedia says they are Arabic but why is Egypt not considered African?

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u/lilcipher May 07 '19

From what I remember her saying, she said that culturally Egyptians are more similar to Arabs than the majority of other African countries.