Geographically and technically, both Asian and Asiatic indicates a person, place, thing, or idea original to Asia. In common English parlance, however, the term Asian is often used to indicate people from, and places in, only one part of Asia -- typically East Asia (China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Vietnam), Sotheast Asia (Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines) or South Asia (Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, The Maldives). Asian - 'Asian' in UK and Anglophone ...

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Asian Australians - Early history. Link: http://asianstudies.anu.edu.au/wiki/index.php/Centre_for_Asian_Societies_and_Histories ...

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In the United States and Canada, since approximately 1990, "Asian" has been used to refer to people from China, Japan, Korea and other East Asian countries. "Asian" is often considered a more polite (or, some would say, more politically correct) alternative to "Oriental". This is partially due to the perception amongst some in academia that the term "Orientalism" reflects a long outdated Eurocentric world view, in which Europe is occidental (western), and Asia is oriental (eastern) - with West Asia being the "Near East" (or "Middle East") and East Asia being the "Fa ...

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Asian Brazilian is a Brazilian-born person of Asian descent. Brazil received many immigrants from Asia, both from Middle-east and East Asia. The first Asian immigrants to arrive in Brazil were a small number of Chinese people (3.000), during the colonial period. However, signicant immigration from Asia to Brazil started in the late XIX century, when immigration from Lebanon and Syria became important. But most Asian Brazilians are associated with east Asian immigrants, most of them Japanese. The first Japanese ...

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Asian values was a concept that came into vogue in the 1990s, predicated on the belief in the existence in Asian countries of a unique set of institutions and political ideologies which reflected the region's culture and history. Because the proponents of the concept came from different cultural backgrounds, no single definition of term exists, but typically "Asian values" encompasses some flavor of Confucianism, in particular loyalty towards the family, corporation and nation, the forgoing of personal freedom for the sake of s ...

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Techniques - Utensils Weights and measures Spices and Herbs Sauces - Soups - Desserts Cheese - Pasta - Bread Other ingredients Africa - Asia - Caribbean South Asian - Latin America Middle East - The West Other cuisines... Famous chefs Kitchens - Meals Wikibooks: Cookbook Asian cuisine is a term for the various cuisines of South, East and Southeast Asia and for fusion dishes based on combining them. It does not usually ...

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An Asian American can be generally defined as a person of Asian ancestry or origin who was born in or is an immigrant to the United States. Asian American - The term Asian American. Asian American - Usage. The term "Asian American" is credited to the historian Yuji Ichioka who, in the late 1960s, used it to describe members of a new pan-ethnic radical political identity who shared common histories, experiences, and goals. In the United States, this term has widely supplanted the ...

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Asian Flu was a pandemic outbreak of avian influenza that originated in China in 1957 and spread worldwide that same year, lasting until 1958. Estimates of worldwide casualty numbers vary widely, ranging from one million to four million people. Asian Flu was of the H2N2 strain (a notation that refers to the configuration of the hemagglutinin and neuraminidase proteins in the virus) of type A influenza, and a flu vaccine was dev ...

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The Asian Age is a newspaper sold in the Indian city of Bombay. The newspaper competes with the Times of India and the Indian Express as the morning newspaper. The paper is known for a greater percentage of news articles as compared to ads. It is also the most well read newspaper after the Times of India Other related archivesBombay, Indian, Indian Express, Times of India

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The Asian cockroach (Blattella asahinai), is a cockroach. It is nearly identical to the German cockroach except for a few very minor differences, and the fact that it can fly quite well. It is about 5/8" long and is tan to brown in colour, and has wings. It has longer wings than the German cockroach, and there is a difference between a groove in the abdomen between the two species. This species usually tends to prefer the outdoors more than the German cockroach. In fact, there is some speculation the German cockroach may simply be a strain of ...

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In the western world, an Asian supermarket, sometimes called an Oriental supermarket, stocks items imported from many places in Asia. They carry items and ingredients generally well-suited for Asian cuisines and not found in most mainstream supermarkets. These markets often have Indian food, large sacks of Thai jasmine rice, soy milk from Hong Kong, chrysanthemum tea from Mainland China, Japanese seaweed, bamboo shoots, various chili sauces, as well as Asian snacks - for example, prawn crackers and rice crackers - and other imp ...

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The Asian Games, also called the Asiad, is a multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. The games are regulated by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) under the supervision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Medals are awarded in each event, with gold for first place, silver for second and bronze for third, a tradition which started in 1950. Competitors are entered by a National Olympic Committee (NOC) to represent their country of citizenship. National anthems and flags accompany ...

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This article is in need of attention. You can help Wikipedia by editing it into a better article. Please also consider changing this notice to be more specific. This article on Asian witchcraft does not deal with witchcraft in the Middle East. For this, see Middle Eastern witchcraft. Asian witchcraft - China. Asian witchcraft - India. Belief in the supernatural is still strong in certain parts of India, and lynchings for witchcraf ...

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The Asian Elephant, sometimes known as the Indian Elephant (Elephas maximus) is one of the two or three living species of elephant. It is smaller than its African relatives, and the easiest way to distinguish the two is the smaller ears of the Asian Elephant. Asian elephants tend to grow to around two to four meters (7-12 feet) in height and 3,000-5,000 kilograms (6,500-11,000 pounds) in weight. Asian Elephants have other differences from their African relatives, including a more arched back than the African, one ...

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The Central Asian Republics are five countries located in Central Asia that were former republics of the Soviet Union. They are: Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan The Central Asian Republics are sometimes referred to as Central Asia, although others prefer this term to be reserved for a larger geographic region within Asia ...

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The Asian Koel (Eudynamis scolopacea), or Common Koel, is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis, and the Hoatzin. It is a mainly resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka to south China and Australasia, but birds at the fringes of the range and on high ground are summer visitors, migrating to warmer areas in winter. The Asian Koel is a bird of light woodland and cultivation. It is a brood parasite, and lays its single ...

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The 15th Asian Games were held in Busan, South Korea from September 29, 2002 to October 14, 2002. 44 countries participated in these games under the management of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA). There were 38 events and 18,000 newsmen, officers and athletes. ...

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The Asian Blue Quail, Coturnix chinensis, also known as the Chinese Painted Quail or the Blue-breasted Quail, is from the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. Other related archivesGalliformes, Phasianidae

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The Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis), often known as the multicolored Asian lady beetle, harlequin lady beetle, or halloween lady beetle because of the species' tendency to vary in color from orange to yellow to even black, is now a common insect in North America. It is a non-native insect on the continent, introduced in the United States in an attempt to control the spread of aphids. After many years of trying to establish a North American population of these beetles brought from their native r ...

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