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- Sep 20, 2018
Let me try again.You're absolutely dead wrong. In Europe, "Asian" means indian only, never used to refer to chinks or japs. I've only ever heard of "asian" meaning ching-chong in places influenced by the US.
Apartheid is a tiered race system consisting of four classes:
Whitey
Asians(read: Indians)
Coloureds
Blacks
Chinese, by South African apartheid policy, were coloured. However, the majority of them ended up actually classified as Asian(read: Indians). I have read a couple of apartheid era books, but I've never found a compelling reason for why that was. Most Chinese obviously pass the pencil test with flying colors, and the tone/features/characteristsics tests puts them right next to the Japanese. I honestly think the government bearucrats just didn't know what the fuck to do with them when it came to actually assigning them a class.