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Originally Posted by Jetée
As it pertains to the re-updated but still nebulous OP, I don't really play favourites with anything. IF we are allowed to expand the nomenclature's definition of the demographic sterotype pertaining to Asians, I wonder: could Natalie Portman fall into this subjective rankings' means of classification? ( quick note: she was born in Jerusalem, Israel, which by my rudimentary geographicology, neither falls into Africa nor Europe, so she must be simply... Asian.) I still do not believe I would come back to debate the point, but maybe, though, just to post some photographs. |
FYI - Jerusalem, while certainly in the Orient, is not in Asia. So, Natalie Portman can be considered Oriental but not Asian.
Asia is, pretty much, everything from the Stans in Central Asia (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, etc.) through South Asia (India, Pakistan, etc.) North Asia (Japan, China, etc.) and South East Asia (Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, etc.).
Israel is firmly in the Middle East.
EDIT: I stand corrected... Apparently, West Asia, is what you can also call the Middle East. It's all feels a little Eurocentric to me.