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Possibly Native Americans/First Peoples, Pacific Islanders, or individuals who self-identify by ethnicity rather than race on these types of reports.

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Also people of Indian descent, for whom it can sometimes be pretty annoying to get dumped into the 'Asian' bucket.

That was my first thought. Probably (maybe wrong, just IME) most 'people from the Western portion of continental Asia' don't see themselves (I suppose we say 'self-identify' now) as 'Asian'.

Similarly to we Britons speaking of 'Europe' and particularly 'Europeans' with the 'continental' implied - and even that phrase not really making sense, not meaning the same as 'mainland'!

Doesn't America have a great deal of mixed-race people (like their prior President)? Or is that not usually treated as a separate category there?

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