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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

"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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]
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!)[1] 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)[reply]
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)[reply]
'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)[reply]

Title of Article

Why is this article titled "East Asians in the United Kingdom", when it is about both East and -Southeast Asians- in the UK?(User talk:Desigirl233) 11:36, 4 June 2008

Requested move 27 February 2015

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Not Moved Mike Cline (talk) 15:22, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]


East Asians in the United Kingdom → East and Southeast Asians in the United Kingdom – The title describes the article; the article includes Chinese, Filipino, Vietnamese, et cetera. --Relisted. George Ho (talk) 09:36, 30 March 2015 (UTC) George Ho (talk) 11:42, 27 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment Some uses of "East Asian" includes Southeast Asian. British English appears to do this, according to the article. (As "Asian" means "South Asian" in British English... also not in concordance with the continental area) Though Orientals in the United Kingdom might be a better match to the subject. (the census term "Chinese or other" is rather poor for use in an article title. -- 70.51.200.101 (talk) 03:01, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - I think most people in the UK would understand the current title to include all parts of Asia to the east and south east of India and Bangladesh, so the proposed title is unnecessary and unwieldy. I also oppose "Orientals" because it's dated, not in common use these days, and (for what it's worth) also possibly somewhat offensive.  — Amakuru (talk) 14:53, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - The proposed new title is a bit unwieldy, but it's probably the best non-judgmental descriptive title for the content of this article. Cordless Larry (talk) 16:15, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • support - Its slightly better than East Asians in the United Kingdom. But please don't use Orientals. I realise people still say it in the UK but much less than they used to. -- haminoon (talk) 10:04, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose – I oppose this request for a simple reason, and that's because the proposed title is simply not used in Britain. Britain has its quirks in terminology, whereby the unqualified term "Asian" refers to the people of the Indian subcontinent. "East Asian", more traditionally referred to as "Oriental", is used to refer various groups including the aforementioned Vietnamese, &c. This may seem bizarre from a geographical standpoint, but so is using "Asian" to refer exclusively to the people of the Indian subcontinent. "East" is taken to mean "East" of "Asia", whereby "Asia" refers to the subcontinent. We must use the title that is most natural to the reader, and which is most common in usage. That's the present title. We cannot change the terminology that people use to suit our own ends. Given that this article describes a group of people that live in Britain, we should use the terminology that Britons use, per WP:TITLEVAR and WP:ENGVAR. This seems to be an attempt to Americanise the title, and I can't support that. RGloucester — ☎ 18:10, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The term Oriental is not considered offensive outside the USA

I just want to make this statement. I don't really have sources, but I've used the term Oriental several times in a non-offensive way, and had it accepted by all East Asians residing in the UK.

I think the idea that some East Asians find the term "Oriental" should be removed as it isn't commonplace in British culture. I only ever restrict usage of "Oriental" when I'm talking to an American or an Americanised country (Canada, South America). In the Europe, Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia, I think the term Oriental isn't considered offensive.

TimothyBaker2 (talk) 07:56, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have certainly heard this term used myself in the UK, but it's certainly seen as offensive by some. Personally, I've never used it and have always assumed that it's as offensive in the UK as it is in the US, although searching online suggests that there is more agreement on it being offensive in the US. This article by Peter Aspinall states that "'Oriental', too, is not a self-description used by peoples from East Asia, scarcely ever occurring as a label of choice when self-ascribed, open-response ethnic group data are collected. It is also regarded as offensive when used by an observer to describe someone with origins in this area". He does also note that it is still used, however. Cordless Larry (talk) 08:52, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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