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Oriental, oriental person
a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans)
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Indian
a native or inhabitant of India
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Eurasian
a person of mixed European and Asian descent
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Afghan, Afghanistani
a native or inhabitant of Afghanistan
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Altaic
any member of the peoples speaking a language in the Altaic language group
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Armenian
a native or inhabitant of Armenia
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Bangladeshi
a native or inhabitant of Bangladesh
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Bengali
(Hinduism) a member of a people living in Bangladesh and West Bengal (mainly Hindus)
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Bhutanese, Bhutani
a native or inhabitant of Bhutan
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Burmese
a native or inhabitant of Myanmar
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Byzantine
a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire
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Cambodian, Kampuchean
a native or inhabitant of Cambodia
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Chinese
a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
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East Indian
a native or inhabitant of the East Indies
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Malay, Malayan
a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago
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Hindoo, Hindu, Hindustani
a native or inhabitant of Hindustan or India
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Hmong, Miao
a people living traditionally in mountain villages in southern China and adjacent areas of Vietnam and Laos and Thailand; many have emigrated to the United States
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Indonesian
a native or inhabitant of Indonesia
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Irani, Iranian, Persian
a native or inhabitant of Iran
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Iraki, Iraqi
a native or inhabitant of Iraq
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Israelite
a native or inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Israel
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Israeli
a native or inhabitant of Israel
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Japanese, Nipponese
a native or inhabitant of Japan
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Jordanian
a native or inhabitant of Jordan
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Korean
a native or inhabitant of Korea who speaks the Korean language
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Kurd
a member of a people who live in Kurdistan, a region in southwest Asia; the largest ethnic group without their own state
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Kuwaiti
a native or inhabitant of Kuwait
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Lao, Laotian
a member of a Buddhist people inhabiting the area of the Mekong River in Laos and Thailand and speaking the Lao language; related to the Thais
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Lebanese
a native or inhabitant of Lebanon
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Malaysian
a native or inhabitant of Malaysia
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Maldivan, Maldivian
a native or inhabitant of Maldives
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Nepalese, Nepali
a native or inhabitant of Nepal
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Pakistani
a native or inhabitant of Pakistan
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Parthian
a native or inhabitant of Parthia
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Singhalese, Sinhalese
a native or inhabitant of Sri Lanka
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Sherpa
a member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers
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Syrian
a native or inhabitant of Syria
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Taiwanese
a native or inhabitant of Taiwan
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Tadzhik, Tajik
a native or inhabitant of Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China
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Siamese, Tai, Thai
a native or inhabitant of Thailand
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Tibetan
a native or inhabitant of Tibet
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Turki
any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language
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Kazakhstani
a native or inhabitant of Kazakhstan
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Annamese, Vietnamese
a native or inhabitant of Vietnam
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Singaporean
an inhabitant of Singapore
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Sri Lankan
a native or inhabitant of Sri Lanka
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Dardan, Dardanian, Trojan
a native of ancient Troy
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Iberian
a native or inhabitant of Iberia in the Caucasus
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Mongoloid
(offensive and outdated) a member of the Mongoloid race
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Timorese
a native or inhabitant of Timor
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Evenki, Ewenki
a member of the people inhabiting an area of northern Mongolia and eastern Siberia
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Mongol, Mongolian
a member of the nomadic peoples of Mongolia
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Assamese
native or inhabitant of the state of Assam in northeastern India
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Dravidian
a member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed south by Caucasians and now mixed with them)
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Gujarati, Gujerati
a member of the people of Gujarat
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Kashmiri
a member of the people of Kashmir
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Oriya
a member of a people in India living in Orissa and neighboring areas
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Panjabi, Punjabi
a member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India
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Mahratta, Maratha
a member of a people of India living in Maharashtra
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Kafir
a member of the Kafir people in northeastern Afghanistan
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Pashtoon, Pashtun, Pathan, Pushtun
a member of the mountain people living in the eastern regions of Afghanistan
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Bornean
a native or inhabitant of Borneo
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sabra
a native-born Israeli
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Ryukyuan
a member of the Japanese people living on the Ryukyu Islands southwest of Japan
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Nip
(offensive slang) offensive term for a person of Japanese descent
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North Korean
a Korean from North Korea
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South Korean
a Korean from South Korea
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Sabahan
a Malaysian from Sabah
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Gurkha
a member of Hindu people descended from brahmins and Rajputs who live in Nepal
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Brahui
a member of a Dravidian people living in Pakistan
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Sindhi
a native or inhabitant of Sind
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Sarawakian
a native or inhabitant of Sarawak
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Damascene
a native or inhabitant of Damascus
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Khmer
a native or inhabitant of Cambodia
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Turk
a native or inhabitant of Turkey
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Azerbaijani
a native or inhabitant of Azerbaijan
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Chuvash
a member of a people of Turkic speech living in the Volga region in eastern Russia
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Karakalpak
a member of a Turkic people living near Lake Aral in central Asia
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Kazak, Kazakh
a Muslim who is a member of a Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan)
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Khirghiz, Kirghiz, Kirgiz
a member of a people of Turkic speech and Mongolian race inhabiting vast regions of central Siberia
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Turcoman, Turkmen, Turkoman
a member of a Turkic people living in Turkmenistan and neighboring areas
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Uighur, Uigur, Uygur
a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
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Usbeg, Usbek, Uzbak, Uzbeg, Uzbek
a member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas
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Yakut
a member of a Turkic people of northeastern Siberia (mainly in the Lena river basin)
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Tungusic
any member of a people speaking a language in the Tungusic family
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Sumatran
a native or inhabitant of Sumatra
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Papuan
a native or inhabitant of Papua New Guinea or New Guinea
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Boxer
a member of a nationalistic Chinese secret society that led an unsuccessful rebellion in 1900 against foreign interests in China
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brahman, brahmin
a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas
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Farsi
a person of Iranian descent
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geisha, geisha girl
a Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing
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Bohemian, Gipsy, Gypsy, Roma, Romani, Romany, Rommany
a member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in northern India but now are living on all continents (but mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America)
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hajji
a general term used by foreign soldiers to refer to the Iraqi people
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Hakka
a member of a people of southeastern China (especially Hong Kong, Canton, and Taiwan) who migrated from the north in the 12th century
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Javan, Javanese
a native or inhabitant of Java
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jawan
(India) a private soldier or male constable
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Kshatriya
a member of the royal or warrior Hindu caste
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mandarin
a high public official of imperial China
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peshmerga
a member of a Kurdish guerilla organization that fights for a free Kurdish state
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Rajpoot, Rajput
a member of the dominant Hindu military caste in northern India
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Samaritan
a member of the people inhabiting Samaria in biblical times
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shogun
a hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68
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Shudra, Sudra
a member of the lowest or worker Hindu caste
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Vaisya
a member of the mercantile and professional Hindu caste; the third of the four main castes