Asian
A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1997/10/30/97-28653/revisions-to-the-standards-for-the-classification-of-federal-data-on-race-and-ethnicity). In the United States it is used for classification of federal government data on race and ethnicity. Race and ethnicity terms are self-identified social construct and may include terms outdated and offensive in MeSH to assist users who are interested in retrieving comprehensive search results for studies such as in longitudinal studies.
Synonyms
- Asians
- Asian Americans
- Americans, Asian
- Asian American
- Chinese Americans
- Americans, Chinese
- Chinese American
- Japanese Americans
- Americans, Japanese
- Japanese American
- Korean Americans
- American, Korean
- Americans, Korean
- Korean American
- Filipino Americans
- Americans, Filipino
- Filipino American
- Asian Indian Americans
- Asian Indian American
- Indian American, Asian
- Cambodian Americans
- American, Cambodian
- Americans, Cambodian
- Cambodian American
- Hmong Americans
- Americans, Hmong
- Hmong American
- Vietnamese Americans
- Americans, Vietnamese
- American, Vietnamese
- Vietnamese American
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