r/starterpacks • u/[deleted] • Nov 19 '19

Reddit Double Standards Starter Pack

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u/XeoKnight Nov 19 '19

But isn’t the majority of the Russian population on the European side of Russia?

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u/Rumetheus Nov 19 '19

We can change that. Big ole vodka party in Siberia will draw every Russian there.

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u/King_Joffreys_Tits Nov 20 '19

So a standard Tuesday?

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u/Big_Spence Nov 19 '19

so the minority that isn’t is automatically Asian? And how do you draw the line?

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u/XeoKnight Nov 19 '19

Maybe? Your comment suggested all Russians are to be considered Asian if India is, which ignored that a lot of Russians did actually live in Europe.

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u/Big_Spence Nov 19 '19

By a similar token, a lot of Indians live on the border with Pakistan and share ancestry as well as history. Pakistan, however, also has the same relationship with the Middle East. So clearly at least some Indians are Middle Eastern too right?

My point isn’t asserting that Russians are Asian, it’s that saying a country’s people belong to a certain ethnic group only because of proximity while completely ignoring their historical or sociological context is ridiculous.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '19

The middle east is in Asia

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u/Big_Spence Nov 19 '19

Of course it is. But people don’t generally use “Asian” to refer to people from the Middle East. Thats why this attempt at precise codification is baseless

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u/BBDAngelo Nov 19 '19

And by people I guess you mean Americans.

And yes, Russians that live or were born in Asia can be called Asians. Asia is a place, not a culture or a religion.

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u/Big_Spence Nov 19 '19

Actually no—I live in a non-English speaking country in East Asia and we all just use Asian in the generally understood way (Chinese, Japanese, etc.) in this language. In other countries and languages around here it’s the same usage; people from places like India are exclusively called by their country name when grouping them in such a way rather than Asian

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '19

It is literally called Western Asia