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by booleandilemma 2617 days ago
As an American, when I hear Asian I think Chinese/Japanese/Korean.

Despite the fact that I know India is in Asia, I don’t think of people from India as Asians.

Incidentally, Israel is also in Asia, but I don’t consider Israelis to be Asian either.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-continent-is-israel...

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I think also the divide between Europe and Asia to be silly since generally continent is defined as: "any of the world's main continuous expanses of land" - and I don't see any dividing body of water between Europe and Asia... What am I missing?
> What am I missing?

The Turkish Straits. Are you referring to the more northern border? I assumed it was the Ural Mountains, but it’s more complicated than that and has an interesting history. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundaries_between_the_conti...