Why does British news call muslim gangs asians?

>>78260015
because they're south asian?

>>78260022
That's not what I subconsciously associate with the word Asian so could you please stop I don't like all this cognitive dissonance I have to do reading british news.

>>78260022
It's insidious, petty and promiscuous.

>>78260065
What is?

>>78260015
Just like how you call people from Europe, Europeans and people from Africa, Africans

Well, they are tecnically Asians.

because in Britain "asian" defaults to south asian, not east asian. there's nothing insidious about it. the world doesn't all use the same terminology we do

>>78260112
Europe is part of Asia though

>>78260233
This.

>>78260233
Thonk

>>78260065
They have always been refereed to as Asians in the UK

>>78260022
Then they should say south asian.

>>78260022
South Asia is only ceylon bangladesh inda and pakistan though
Surely some of them are west asian

>>78260022
no one in the civilized world(australia, usa) refers to sub continentals as asian

>>78260015
because they're too cucked to call them pakis

>>78260015
Terms aren't universal. "Asian" is vague and refers to anyone in Asia, including all muzzies. It does not mean "East Asian".