[amake]

As an American who's spent the last ~10 years in Japan, the American idea of pan-Asian cultural/racial identity now feels extremely foreign to me.

[vacri]

As an Australian listening to a BBC interviewing a man about his Asian upbringing, it sounded weird. An unqualified 'asian' to Australian ears means South East Asian or Chinese. But to the British, it's apparently folks from the subcontinent. In neither case does it default to mean near/middle eastern or central asian.