[nicky g]

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The use of the word "Asian" for these dudes seems out of place. I thought the term was made popular as a politically correct move to obscure the fact that Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, etc. were often mistakenly interchanged and to spare their feelings for calling them all Chinese. Now it looks like calling someone an Arab is becoming taboo, too. How about if we used the term "Asian" to refer to Israelis? I wonder how that would fly in PC circles!? [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

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Er... For a start, these guys were not of Arab descent, so I don't know why you would want to call them Arabs (perhaps you are confusing "Arab" with "Muslim"). Secondly, there is more to Asia than East Asia. These guys were of South Asian/sub-continental descent, which the word Asian frequently refers to in the UK.