There's nothing that links a GOP-voting Vietnam War-era refugee in Orange County with a lefty Harvard-educated Indian kid in PA beyond the fact that they both trace their backgrounds from a continent that's home to the majority of humanity. Yet they both exist in this article.
"Asian-American" is a relic of the 1960s and 1970s, a useful term perhaps for East Asian-origin solidarity in West Coast colleges. But I hope one day it will sound as strange to most people as "European American."
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