Tech Nation shutting down as UK government pulls key funding

Re:Tech Nation shutting down as UK government pulls key funding by lotsofpulp on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:29PM (#34614098)

I feel like I see proportionally more South Asians in the UK than the US. In the US, I see proportionally more East and Southeast Asians.

In the UK, “Asian” (in common vernacular) usually refers to descendants of India/Pakistan/Bangladesh/Nepal/etc.

In the US, “Asian” usually refers to descendants of Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese/Thai/Filipino/etc.

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Re:Tech Nation shutting down as UK government pulls key funding by adamc on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:42PM (#34614351)

I dunno. Where my kid went to high school, "asian" usually meant people of Indian heritage. An anecdote only, but.

What pops into my mind is that the US is closer to what you would call east Asia than it is to India, and, of course, Britain has particularly strong historical ties to India/Pakistan etc. So that might also be a factor.

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Re:Tech Nation shutting down as UK government pulls key funding by nvarsj on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:57PM (#34614609)

Yes, got my geography wrong. I meant South/South East not East, updated my comment. Basically the former British colonies.

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Re:Tech Nation shutting down as UK government pulls key funding by alephnerd on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:55PM (#34615642)

It's a lagging indicator. A lot of those South Asians tend to be 2nd or 3rd generation whose heritage is from the Doab and Mirpur who came to work in factories like the Michelin tyre factory in Southall, the Ford factory in Dagenham, and the textile mills up in Birmingham and North Yorkshire in the 1950s-70s. South Asian immigration to the UK slowed down by the 90s when America and Canada became easier for South Asians to emigrate to.

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