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Re:Governments have overestimated the economic returns of hi... by DrScump on Saturday March 03, 2018 @02:04AM (#16508281) 

  proper nouns and derivations thereof are capitalized
Not when used as adjectives, as in the given example. Had it been hyphenated, creating a lone noun, "Asian-American" would work.
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Re:Governments have overestimated the economic returns of hi... by dragonwriter on Saturday March 03, 2018 @02:19AM (#16508315)
Proper adjectives (adjectives derived from proper nouns) are generally capitalized in English.
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