A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1997/10/30/97-28653/revisions-to-the-standards-for-the-classification-of-federal-data-on-race-and-ethnicity). In the United States it is used for classification of federal government data on race and ethnicity. Race and ethnicity terms are self-identified social construct and may include terms outdated and offensive in MeSH to assist users who are interested in retrieving comprehensive search results for studies such as in longitudinal studies.

Annotation

despite entry terms, specify CHINA /ethnol, JAPAN /ethnol, KOREA /ethnol, or other Asian country with /ethnol when pertinent

DUI

D001213 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0001811

Previous indexing

Ethnic Groups (1968-1974); specific Asia heading (1966-1974) /ethnology (1975-1980); specific state (1966-1980); United States (1966-1980)

History note

2023; use ASIAN AMERICANS 1981-2022

Public note

2023; see ASIAN AMERICANS 1981-2022