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ELI5:Why are Chinese and Japanese people called "Asians", but Indians aren't?
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In the US Chinese, Japanese and Korean people are more numerous than Indians. So because they look kind of similar to each other, and they are the people from Asia who most Americans are likely to encounter, they became known as "Asians". While Indian people are also from Asia, they clearly look very different from Chinese/Japanese/Koreans, so they didn't get lumped in under the same term.

This is actually the opposite in the UK. Here Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are called "Asians". Probably for the same reason. There are more people originally from those countries in the UK than there are Chinese, Japanese and Koreans.