asian

sometimes it bugs me, that word 'asian'...it is such a generalisation...it's quite unfair to term all people from the Asian continent as 'asian' when it is the largest continent, thus holds quite a number of world population...when i see an online poll, something like 'which ethnicity you identify yourself with' or some official forms where you have to tick your ethnicity, the multiple choices are almost always: caucasian (white supremacy anybody?), african american, hispanic, chinese, indian, asian...

what the heck?...is japanese similar to indonesian, let's say....or malay indonesian similar to malay malaysian...or the aborigines of each nation there is similar to another aborigines...can you not at least be aware that south east asians, like the thais, malays, cambodians, filipinos and others are definitely not the same...we don't speak the same language...we don't eat the same food (while there are similarities, i acknowledge that food across the world have similarities due to world trade back then and internet nowadays)...we don't have the same culture...we don't look the same...basically we are all different...wait...even the spellings differ (unless you can't read, so this post defeats its purpose)...

i also do acknowledge that it is easier to put 'asian' for us the 'asians', rather than list 1000+ of ethnicities...but can you not put 'others' so you do realise that there are other ethnicities out there?...i am an asian, true, but no one will ever ever mistaken me for a japanese or korean or thai or manchurian...what would say, an american or british or australian say if they have to fill a form for ethnicity and the only choice they have is 'american' or something like that?...i don't think american is even an ethnicity...it's a country for god's sake!...so put yourself in 'our' asian's boat...take note, asia is a continent, not an ethnicity...

anyway, we all have to be aware and this classification gives off the impression of self absorbance, lack of intelligence or ignorance...it's simply shameful when a government official form reflects one or all of these 3 impressions...