On 19/09/05, Alphax <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
(Actually, I thought that in Britain "Asian"
meant "West Asian"
(middle-eastern) - where's South Asia? I'm almost in South East Asia...)
Yeah, Asian ~ Indian subcontinent, basically. Pakistan, India. South
Asia is pretty indeterminate - the BBC uses it for Afghanistan through
to Bangladesh - but south-east Asia is Indochina/Indonesia &c.
Australia gets its own classification...
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