When I hear Asian I think either Far East Asia (China, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, etc) and South East Asia (India, Paskistan, Nepal, etc) but I don't consider Middle Easterns as Asian (although geographically they are) but the culture and traditions are very different. Even Middle Easterns are very different among themselves, for example Lebanon is very different from Qatar although they're only about 2400 kms away.

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