Wow he really said that. Kinda stupid if you ask me, people may take it personally. This is why when you mean "We need a more distributed supply chain" you say "we need a more distributed supply chain" and don't single out a geoethnic region.
He didn't. Asia is a continent, and it's no different than saying the biggest consumer of hot dogs is North America.
I'm Asian, fwiw.
Since you missed third grade geography, the other continents in addition to Asia are Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, and recently discovered to be its own continent, Zealandia
Good try though, projecting your own racism onto the topic at hand while simultaneously revealing incredible ignorance
In the US, I think people often use “Asian” to euphemistically refer to people they used to call Orientals. The latter term is considered problematic. The new term hasn’t improved their treatment, though.
I think the "India" prefix in the terminology you mentioned and the fact that euphemistic American "Asian" including only East/Sountheast Asians indicate that there is a widely recognized and practical distinction between the groups, which also aligns with the UN definition, despite both partly sharing the literal expression.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_geoscheme_for_A...
I wonder why that is; while at the same time, Kamala Harris is widely considered the first Asian American Vice President, because her mother is a Tamil American (as am I).
According to...?
And if it's not a continent, what is it?
> “other worlds that don’t speak Indo-European languages”
There are hundreds of Indo-European languages spoken in Asia. One of them (Hindi) is the 4th most common first language in the world, after Mandarin, Spanish, and English[1]. (I'm actually surprised Arabic isn't higher on that list but maybe the various regional variants count as different languages?)
I'm not sure where you're getting your geography and linguistics information from.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...
“Continent” refers to single contiguous land encircled by seawater, that aren’t islands, at least as I think of the word.
> where you're getting your geography
It’s 7:45 now where I am.
To the best of my knowledge, you are literally the only person who uses that definition. By that definition Asia, Europe, and Africa would be a single continent. North and South America would be a single continent. What school did you go to that they taught you there are 4 continents in the entire world?
Isn't that six? Eurasia, Africa, Australia, North America, South America, and Antarctica, with India noted as "sub-continent" and Asia sometimes distinguished within Eurasia by mountain ridges.
These are joined together by land, and are not individually encircled by sea. The Panama Canal doesn't count, as it is manmade and would silt up if not maintained.
> Eurasia, Africa
Ditto. The Suez Canal doesn't count either.
As for wine, wine isn't as fundamental/crucial to modern civilization as computer chips and oil.
> It also needs more geographically balanced supply. Today there's a heavy bias to Asia. And as we've seen, coming out of some of the disruptions and challenges, the world needs US and European supply in a more balanced way. It's the right thing for the global supply chain requirements, for both commercial as well as for government and defence use as well.