Ethnic groups in Asia in the context of "Panethnicity"

⭐ In the context of panethnicity, how are Asian Americans often categorized despite their diverse origins?

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⭐ Core Definition: Ethnic groups in Asia

The ancestral population of modern Asian people has its origins in the two primary prehistoric settlement centres – greater Southwest Asia and from the Mongolian plateau towards Northern China.

Migrations of distinct ethnolinguistic groups have probably occurred as early as 10,000 years ago. However, around 2,000 BCE early Iranian speaking people and Indo-Aryans arrived in Iran and northern Indian subcontinent. Pressed by the Mongols, Turkic peoples often migrated to the western and northern regions of the Central Asian plains. Prehistoric migrants from South China and Southeast Asia seem to have populated East Asia, Korea and Japan in several waves, where they gradually replaced indigenous people, such as the Ainu, who are of uncertain origin. Austroasiatic and Austronesian people establish in Southeast Asia between 5.000 and 2.000 BCE, partly merging with, but eventually displacing the indigenous Australo-Melanesians.

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👉 Ethnic groups in Asia in the context of Panethnicity

Panethnicity is a political neologism used to group various ethnic groups together based on their related cultural origins; geographic, linguistic, religious, or "racial" (i.e. phenotypic) similarities are often used alone or in combination to draw panethnic boundaries. The term panethnic was used extensively during mid-20th century anti-colonial/national liberation movements. In the United States, Yen Le Espiritu popularized the term and coined the nominal term panethnicity in reference to Asian Americans, a racial category composed of disparate peoples having in common only their origin in the continent of Asia.

It has since seen some use as a replacement of the term race; for example, the aforementioned Asian Americans can be described as "a panethnicity" of various unrelated peoples of Asia, which are nevertheless perceived as a distinguishable group within the larger multiracial North American society.

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Ethnic groups in Asia in the context of Asian people

"Asian people" (sometimes "Asiatic people") is an umbrella term for people who belong to any ethnic, racial, or national group with origins in Asia. It is most often used in contexts concerning the Asian diaspora, which consists of Asian people and their descendants living outside of the continent. The exact definition of the term may vary by country; some classifications of "Asian" may only refer to certain Asian-origin groups, as opposed to the population of the entire continent.

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Ethnic groups in Asia in the context of List of contemporary ethnic groups

This is a list of lists of contemporary ethnic groups.

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Ethnic groups in Asia in the context of Eurasians in Singapore

Eurasian Singaporeans are Singaporeans of mixed European–Asian descent. The term largely includes – but is not limited to – the creole Portuguese-Malay (largely originating from Malacca) Kristang people, who form a distinct sub-group within the Eurasian community with their own separate language, culture and identity.

The Asian ancestry of Eurasian Singaporeans largely traces to Singapore in the Straits Settlements, British Malaya, British India, Portuguese India, the Dutch East Indies and sometimes to a lesser extent French Indochina and other colonies, while their European ancestry trace back primarily to Western and Southwestern Europe; particularly the British Isles, the Netherlands, and Portugal, although Eurasian settlers to Singapore in the 19th century also came from other European colonies. When the European maritime powers colonised Asian countries from the 16th to 20th centuries, they brought into being a new group of commingled ethnicities known historically as Eurasians.

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← Panethnicity ← Asian people ← List of contemporary ethnic groups ← Pan-ethnic ← Eurasians in Singapore
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Asian people → Southwest Asia → Mongolian plateau → Northern China → Ethnolinguistics → Iranian peoples → Indo-Aryan peoples → Indian subcontinent → Mongols → Turkic peoples → Central Asian → South China → Southeast Asia → East Asia → Korea → Japan → Ainu people → Austroasiatic languages → Austronesian languages → Australoid race →