Most glaring omission that jumps out to me is South Asian, I think, which is usually grouped separately from Southeast Asian although there's a cultural continuum and a lot of migrations.
Hrm, another category that doesn't quite fit into what you've put down are Mongolian/Central Asian people who would probably not consider themselves Northeast Asian but also not Arab/Middle-East either. I also suspect that quite a lot of people in the Middle East would identify as Arab (e.g. there are a lot of Turkish ethnic groups, a lot of Iranians identify as Persian, all the Sephardic Jewish groups), so maybe there's a better way to label this area?
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Date: 14 May 2010 08:30 pm (UTC)Hrm, another category that doesn't quite fit into what you've put down are Mongolian/Central Asian people who would probably not consider themselves Northeast Asian but also not Arab/Middle-East either. I also suspect that quite a lot of people in the Middle East would identify as Arab (e.g. there are a lot of Turkish ethnic groups, a lot of Iranians identify as Persian, all the Sephardic Jewish groups), so maybe there's a better way to label this area?