Jan 23, 2011 · People From India. I work in IT, and I'm constantly in contact with people from India, which is exactly how they tend to refer to themselves. They almost always insert the phrase from India rather than using a race/nationality of Indian/East Indian. I don't think they take offense to Indian, I think they just use this method to avoid confusion ...

Jan 9, 2018 · If I were to refer to people from China/Korea/Japan without specifying their country I would use the term "Asian" and likewise for people from Germany/France/Greece I would use the term "European". However people who come from countries neighboring India such as Sri Lanka or Fijian Indians do not like to be classified as "Indian" because this ...

Mar 20, 2019 · The Italian etymology of India fails to mention anything about "people in/of God". Italian Wikipedia says Gli antichi Greci si riferivano agli indiani con il termine Indoi (Ινδοί), il popolo dell'Indo. "Indo people/population" Indo is derived from "Sindhu" meaning large body of water. No trace of God there whatsoever. –

Unless the indigenous people of the U.S. have formed some attachment to the misidentification foisted upon them by the earliest European visitors, the term American Indian ought to be replaced by something to indicate their prior status as sole owners and inhabitants of the turf that comprises the U.S. Autochthon (n), autochthonous (adj), aborigine (n) and aboriginal (adj) …

Jun 6, 2014 · Again, people would use "A person from Western India" to refer to someone from western states. However, North Indian and South Indian are very commonly used to describe people from the Northern and Southern part of India. The people from Eastern and Western India usually prefer to identify themselves with their state or language (Eg.

India is a huge country with over 20 (not exactly sure) vernaculars. The official language varies from state to state. Although Hindi is "used for official purposes" (according to Wikipedia), not all people from all states speak Hindi. English is widely spoken, and most schools in urban India use English as the medium of instruction.

Mar 27, 2020 · We usually say 'Good evening to India, good afternoon to Germany, good morning to America' or equivalent, or 'good morning, good afternoon, good evening, whichever time it is where you are', but it is still everytime as a half- or quarter-joke; there is simply no standard way to handle it, as it is too new a need to have made it into standard language.

Apr 13, 2017 · I might personally still avoid it just because many people might be confused by it (or at least take a moment to parse it), but technically it is a perfectly cromulent word. I then checked the OED and found that this word was coined in 1913. Here is the quote, which comes from the New York Times:

Dec 15, 2011 · People don't know it but it is slighlty offensive to some South Asians and Middle Easterners as they too are part of the Asia continent. In the UK and other Commonwealth countries, the word "Asian" refers to someone from South Asia (India and surrounding countries). Personally, I think both definitions are messed up.

Sep 18, 2014 · I didn't say that all people from eastern asia are physically indistinguishable from one another. I just think it's perfectly obvious that the Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese individuals in your example share more in common with each other (physically, culturally, etc) than they do with the 3 Europeans in your example. "3 Europeans ...