Talk:East Asians in the United Kingdom/Archive 1

East Asians are not Southeast Asians
Southeast Asians should have their own article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.92.26.237 (talk) 20:59, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Flags and regions with significant populations
The flags in the "regions with significant population" section of the infobox are quite inappropriate. NONE of the British Orientals reside in the countries mentioned. They live in Great Britain! Also, the use of a country's flag to indicate their origins is inappropriate and can be offensive. That country might not exist when their ancestors moved to Great Britain or they fled the country because they did not want to live under that flag in the first place! —Preceding unsigned comment added by DHN (talk • contribs) 03:07, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

"They live in Great Britain"? This is about the UK so surely they could also live in N Ireland. Tsk tsk. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.246.240.14 (talk) 09:20, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

What are 'British Orientals' really called?
The article says "the term 'British Oriental' is rarely if ever used". OK... so why give the article this title? Is it a made-up term? Is there a term that is actually used? Cop 663 (talk) 18:31, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * It's an attempt by Wikipedians to classify that which is not usually classified in order to make an article. East Asian is sometimes used but it's not much more common. Groups are usually referred to by their individual ethnicity ((British) Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, etc), or simply as (other) Asian. The 2011 census is proposing to include Chinese and other Asians within the Asian category. -- zzuuzz (talk) 19:41, 31 May 2008 (UTC)


 * That's what I suspected. Google suggests the term is used occasionally although the examples I saw all seemed to post-date the creation of this article... (also there's a breed of cat with the same name!) Is there a name we could use that doesn't impose a rarely-used term? East Asian people in the United Kingdom? British people with ancestry in the Far East? Cop 663 (talk) 20:20, 31 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I moved it to East Asian people in Britain which is more neutral, as it isn't trying to enforce a name onto a group that doesn't seem to have one. Cop 663 (talk) 11:36, 4 June 2008 (UTC)


 * 'Asian' is being used for any group that resides in Asia. I think the terms 'Oriental', 'Chinese' and 'East Asian', are the most commonly accepted terms for 'Asians'. The term 'Asians' gets used for East Asians, but only when given context; British Asians still means Indians, but "There were so many Asians in London for the Olympics!" can be easily used to mean East Asians, however "There are so many Asians at Imperial!" could mean either races...TimothyBaker2 (talk) 08:03, 2 May 2015 (UTC)