Do you consider India Middle-Eastern, Far-Eastern or what?

[RitinNair]

Just asking a question.

[Padre Organtino]

South Asia.

Is that you in that pic?

[The Lawspeaker]

Verweggistan. Ver van mijn bed- show.

[Bardamu]

How about sub-continental?

[Sikeliot]

India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh are in a category of their own in my opinion.

[Pallantides]

Langtvekkistan

[RitinNair]

Is that you in that pic?

Yes it is.

[rhiannon]

South Asia, definitely

[Mortimer]

Geographically: Far-East
Racially:Southasian, unique but closer to west asia than to far east asia

[Mosov]

India is not Middle East, neither is Pakistan. They are part of South Asia.

[Comte Arnau]

India is a world of its own and a fusion at the same time.

Geographically, it's a continent of its own, an originally non-Eurasian territory upon a tectonic plate of its own (the Indian plate).

Racially, it's one of the oldest melting pots, where you can find different types of Caucasoids, East Asians and Australoids.

Culturally, it's one of the four big focuses, centered on the Sanskrit tradition (Sanskrit being a 'Western' language) and the Hinduist tradition (Dharmic beliefs being 'Eastern' systems), with all sort of derivatives and a biggest internal diversity that the one you can find in the whole continent of Europe.


-- Nepal could be considered a part of it, while Pakistan and Bengala are rather on a different scale.

[Absinthe]

What a silly question, India is an entity on its own. Middle Easterners and Far Easterners together would still not measure up to Indian heritage.

[Azerval]

I do not consider India Middle-Eastern. It is South Asian subcontinent and generally accepted as it .

[Käpsele]

I'd say South Asia, imho it doesn't really fit any of the other options

[Gospodine]

Only geographically-challenged Americans would consider it Middle Eastern; and I've actually seen them seriously try to argue that point.

I prefer the term South Asian or the Indian subcontinent.

[Smeagol]

It would be closer to Iran, if not for the Australoid admixture.

[Roy]

South Asia.

[Myth]

I don't consider Indians middle eastern, they look very different, linguistically are different, and their food and culture is also very different. That said, I would consider India almost like it's own subcontinent with some neighboring influences.

[Farah]

How could there be any doubt it is anything other than South Asian? :eek:

[Sikeliot]

India is nothing like the Middle East. Even Pakistan isn't.

[Neon Knight]

Middle Asia. In Britain Asian means Indian but to Americans Asian means Japanese, Chinese, etc.

[Breedingvariety]

Middle Asia. In Britain Asian means Indian but to Americans Asian means Japanese, Chinese, etc.
Yeh, I know. This is one of few instance where British English is wrong over American English. They should call them Indians. And American Indians should be called Amerindians.

[Neon Knight]

We call them Indians as well. Asian is used as a more technical term.

[Elsa]

Asian is a collective term that includes Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans. All South Asians, not just Indians.