[lostalex]

Originally Posted by fruit_cake

the American ideas of race and the British ones seem very different. I don't think we're so aware of it over here from what I can see.

that's true. for instance, when American's say "asian" it means something different when british say "asian"

when brit's say asian i notice they mean south asia usually like indian and pakistani. When American's say asian, we always mean like japanese or chinese. Most american's don't even realize that india and pakistan is part of asia i think. we consider them middle eastern or "arab".

I don't know any Americans that would ever call a pakistani person "asian". we'd just call them arab or muslim.