Fancy Asian, Jungle Asians

[Mark Spahn]

Asia is a big place, and not all Asians are alike.  In California, for example,

"The Bangladeshi community is expanding in Los Angeles and they’ve wanted a designated area, like Koreatown, to express their identity."  Source:

http://www.unz.com/isteve/in-l-a-vote-fancy-asians-reject-sharing-their-koreatown-with-jungle-asians/

Expressing one's identity through real estate?  If only we had a politician who is knowledgeable in real-estate development and could adjudicate such matters.

Excerpt:

Comedienne Ali Wong offers a useful distinction between what she calls Fancy Asians (Japanese, Korean, Chinese) and “Jungle Asians,” who are from Vietnam, Philippines, Laos, etc. (I don’t know where Bangladeshis would fit in for her, if at all. She probably doesn’t consider them Asian.)

Meanwhile, we must embrace the "ultimate wisdom of a borderless world" (Bill Clinton, September 10, 2011).  Details in

http://www.unz.com/isteve/nyt-no-democrats-dont-want-open-borders/

[Rene]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 8:57 AM, Mark Spahn <mark...@twc.com> wrote:Excerpt:

Comedienne Ali Wong offers a useful distinction between what she calls Fancy Asians (Japanese, Korean, Chinese) and “Jungle Asians,” who are from Vietnam, Philippines, Laos, etc. (I don’t know where Bangladeshis would fit in for her, if at all. She probably doesn’t consider them Asian.)

​I dont consider them Asians, do you? Or is the UK euphemism for Pakistanis now universally accepted?​

 

​For that matter, before the Pak civil war, they were Pakistanis, ​and before the muslim civil war creating Pakistan, they were Indians.

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[Matthew Schlecht]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 8:18 PM, Rene <rrrat...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 8:57 AM, Mark Spahn <mark...@twc.com> wrote:Excerpt:

Comedienne Ali Wong offers a useful distinction between what she calls Fancy Asians (Japanese, Korean, Chinese) and “Jungle Asians,” who are from Vietnam, Philippines, Laos, etc. (I don’t know where Bangladeshis would fit in for her, if at all. She probably doesn’t consider them Asian.)

​I dont consider them Asians, do you? Or is the UK euphemism for Pakistanis now universally accepted?​

     I believe the useful distinction is "South Asians" for all of the Bharatheo peoples.

Matthew Schlecht, PhD
Word Alchemy Translation
Newark, DE, USA
wordalchemytranslation.com

[Mark Spahn]

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This remark sent me to
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Bharatheo+people&t=h_&ia=web
which led me to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharatha_people
, an ethnic group of 1,688 individuals in Sri Lanka.  Was this a mistyping?
Maybe "Bhara theo" means all the people who worship the god Bhara, like
Μεθ᾽ἡμων ὁ Θεός (Meth himon o theos)
refers to all the people who worship the god Meth, such as

https://image.slidesharecdn.com/salud-y-enfermedadii-1231619820813743-1/95/salud-y-enfermedad-ii-drogas-ilegales-y-trastornos-alimenticios-41-728.jpg?cb=1351718640

-- Mark Sp.

[Matthew Schlecht]

     Didn't realize that this isn't a recognizable loanword in English.

     Bharat is the name for "Greater India", i.e., all of the Indian subcontinent before the regional slicing and dicing that occurred during the 20th century.

     Bharatheo is the Latin letter rendering of the word (at least in Bengali) for an inhabitant of Bharat.

     This is the obvious source of the ethnonym "Bharatha" that you discovered, kinda like as Breton is to Britain.