[vehemenz]

Insofar as minorities seek greater legal representation and rights, "Asian American" makes perfect sense as a political identity. If you're Burmese, why not throw in with Thai and Chinese Americans?

However, I'm unsure if anything tangible can be discerned about Americans' attitudes toward "Asian Americans." There are simply too many cultures represented that share not enough in common. Even "Hispanics" (a vexing, incoherent classification) have more in common than Asian Americans.

If you don't know what you're measuring, it's hard to understand the data and give it appropriate context.

[niemandhier]

I recently learned that Americans group people from the Indian subcontinent under the category 'Asian'.

I am therefore apparently an Asian, something that never occurred to me.

[tablespoon]

> I recently learned that Americans group people from the Indian subcontinent under the category 'Asian'.

IIRC, in the UK, "Asian" is understood as South Asian by default, not as East Asian in the US.