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On Thursday, April 24, 2003, at 04:46 PM, raosam2001 wrote:

 

> I concur with Ananda re: Asian cuisine.

> Im would also like to add that Asian cuisine includes Indian food and

> there are several (15+) Vegetarian Indian restaurants in the Bay area.

 

 

 

I feel uncomfortable using the word 'asian' because it has different

meaning to US and UK people. In America, it means people from China,

Vietnam, Korea, Japan, etc. whereas in the UK asian means Indian or

Pakistani. Of course, all are asian, but (like 'vegetarian') people

don't go by the dictionary term.

 

Likewise, the word 'anti-Semitic' now means anti-jewish, when Semitic

people are also the arabs. So I don't like that word either.

 

 

tony

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