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Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf] by wahern on Friday April 24, 2020 @10:45PM (#22975122)
There are two predominate meanings: the Census Bureau definition includes the Indian subcontinent along with East and Southeast Asia. The vernacular excludes the Indian subcontinent, though perhaps less so among the Indian community.

Afghanistan would not be included in either definition. Someone of Afghanistan ancestry (I'm purposefully avoiding distinguishing the various ethnicities in Afghanistan) would be classified as either Middle Eastern or Caucasian under the census definition as well as in the vernacular.

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Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf] by renewiltord on Friday April 24, 2020 @10:47PM (#22975128)
Census 2020 actually has Asian Indian as a distinct race choice but you're right for the past.
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Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf] by mantap on Saturday April 25, 2020 @06:11AM (#22977065)
Right but what I'm getting at is that when people talk about "Asian Americans" in the context of college admissions, it seems like a coded way of talking about people of Chinese descent and not e.g. Filipinos.
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Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf] by sumedh on Saturday April 25, 2020 @08:15AM (#22977525)
Probably because majority of the applicants would be Chinese not Filipino.
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