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Originally Posted by Crawford
Also, the differing definitions of Asian probably matter. Canada has very large Persian, Lebanese and Middle Eastern populations. Those folks won't be classified as Asian in most non-Canadian contexts.
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It's true that if you showed someone a Copt, an Istanbulite and an Israeli or Lebanese, their chances of correctly guessing who's the African, who's the European and who's the Asian probably wouldn't be very high. (On the other hand, I get that there have to be lines somewhere.)
Russia is also a good example - if you relocate to the other side of the Urals, you morph from being an European to being an Asian, while continuing to be completely indistinguishable ethnically/culturally/linguistically from old-stock locals.