I do admit that I never liked the term "Asian" except when using it to refer to geographic location.
a geographic term, I am well aware of that. Why wouldn't I be giving my ethnic background? I called myself Asian to simplfy things. When people ask me where I am from, I know that they are trying to determine my ethnicity because they can't figure out form my looks. Instead of telling them the country name which only invite more questions, I sometimes use the term "Asian" and they get the message that I am not interested in giving the detail.
Remember that when my neighbor used the terms African, she was using it in racial and cultural sense, not geological sense. I didn't correct her because I didn't want to bother explaining someone who wasn't familiar with Islamic Rule in Spain.
Just remember that I was talking in the context of the History books that were trying to teach the African-American population their history in racial sense. I stand on my point that the book my neighbor was given to learn her racial group's past accomplishment was intentionally misleading when it says the Moors were Africans using the geological sense of that term "Africans" without explaining that culture of that civilization was Arabic.
