He suggested that from the data one might conclude that, on average, Asian Americans are more intelligent than white Americans.

* 波霸奶茶 (): " bubble milk tea " and also commonly referred to as boba tea by English speakers and Asian Americans.

Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music.

It is particularly conspicuous in the United States, where Polish Americans, Scottish Americans, Irish Americans, Asian Americans and others strive to emphasize their differences from the mainstream.

The staff of Jardines ( 239, 000 employees as of January 2007 ) is predominantly Asian, with senior management levels composed of a mixture of British, Chinese, Indonesians, Europeans, Australians and Americans.

Today, people from India ( and their descendants ) who are citizens of the United States are called Indian Americans or Asian Indians.

** June 1996 on Asian Americans as " the new Jews.

In the United States, a 2010 study indicated that Asian Americans are perceived as most likely to be nerds, followed by White Americans, while Hispanics and African Americans were perceived as least likely to be nerds.

Many of the " Black Poor " were African Americans, who had been given their freedom after seeking refuge with the British Army during the American Revolution, but also included other West Indian, African and Asian inhabitants of London.

The Americans in the novel respond to their conquerors ' racism by often referring to them in unflattering terms, such as " flat face ", " slanty " ( a derisive reference to the look typical of Asian eyes ), and " monkey boy ".

Yoshinaga-Herzig later moved to New York, where she became a community activist in the 1960s and was a member of Asian Americans for Action ( AAA ), the first Asian-American political organization on the East Coast.

Chinese Americans constitute one group of overseas Chinese and also a subgroup of East Asian Americans, which is further a subgroup of Asian Americans.

The Chinese American community comprises the largest ethnic group of Asian Americans, comprising 25. 9 % of the Asian American population as of 2010.

However, since Anatolia is now often considered to be synonymous with Asian Turkey, its eastern and southeastern borders are widely taken to be the Turkish borders with the neighboring countries, which are Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Iraq and Syria, in clockwise direction.

There are two suspension bridges over the Bosphorus, both its Asian and European banks rise steeply from the water and form a succession of cliffs, coves, and nearly landlocked bays.

Wallace did extensive fieldwork, first in the Amazon River basin and then in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the Wallace Line that divides the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts, one in which animals closely related to those of Australia are common, and one in which the species are largely of Asian origin.

According to Cavalli-Sforza, Ainu are in the same genetic cluster as the " Northeast and East Asian ".

Members of the southeast Asian planthopper genus Ancyra are well known for having a pair of prolonged filaments at the tips of the forewings that arise near a pair of small glossy spots ; this creates the impression of a pair of antennae, with corresponding " eyes " ( a remarkable case of automimicry ).

Regional chefs are emerging as localized celebrity chefs with growing broader appeal, such as Peter Merriman ( Hawaii Regional Cuisine ), Jerry Traunfeld, Alan Wong ( Pacific Rim cuisine ), Norman Van Aken ( New World Cuisine-fusion Latin, Caribbean, Asian, African and American ), and Mark Miller ( American Southwest cuisine ).

Co-ed South Asian a cappella groups are also gaining in popularity.

For example, there are differences between African, East Asian and Indo-racial groups in how they metabolize alcohol.

Brunei's leaders are concerned that steadily increased integration in the world economy will undermine internal social cohesion although it has taken steps to become a more prominent player by serving as chairman for the 2000 APEC ( Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation ) forum.

Interpenetration and essence-function are mutually informing in the East Asian Buddhist traditions, especially the Korean Buddhist tradition.

In some European Union and Asian countries, there are two separate boards, an executive board for day-to-day business and a supervisory board ( elected by the shareholders ) for supervising the executive board.

Almost all mass produced bokken are made from porous, loose-grained southeast Asian wood.

While most species of North American red oak are unsuitable for construction of bokken, there are some Asian species of red oak that have a significantly tighter grain and will be able to withstand repeated impacts.

The oldest roots of crokinole, from the 1860s, suggest the British and South Asian games are the most likely antecedents of what became crokinole.

The monsoonal airflows are caused by annual alternating high pressure and low pressure over the Central Asian landmass.

Costa Rica major economic resources are its fertile land and frequent rainfall, its well-educated population, and its location in the Central American isthmus, which provides easy access to North and South American markets and direct ocean access to the European and Asian Continents.

In some European Union, and in some Asian countries, there are two separate boards, one executive board for the day-to-day business and one supervisory board for control purposes ( elected by the shareholders ).

Confucius's works are studied by scholars in many other Asian countries, particularly those in the Sinosphere, such as Korea, Japan and Vietnam.

South Asian English phonology is highly variable ; stress, rhythm and intonation are generally different from those of native varieties.

The Canchim breed is a breed of beef cattle developed in Central Brazil by crossing European Charolais cattle with Indubrazil cattle already kept in Brazil where Asian Zebu type cattle are best suited to the tropical conditions.

Links with Arab states and East Asian states, Japan and People's Republic of China in particular, are welcome.

Asian mail was typically lighter than the European variety and sometimes had prayer symbols stamped on the rings as a sign of their craftsmanship as well as for divine protection.

Whereas the other Central Asian republics have sometimes complained of Russian interference, Kyrgyzstan has more often wished for more attention and support from Moscow than it has been able to obtain.

Kabaddi ( sometimes transliterated Kabbadi or Kabadi ; Punjabi: ਕਬ ੱ ਡ ੀ, Marathi: कबड ् ड ी, Hindi: कबड ् ड ी, ,,,,,, Malayalam: കബഡ ി) is a South Asian team sport.

This plant symbolizes good luck in China and other Asian countries, where it is sometimes given as a gift during the Lunar New Year.

In India and the Asian islands the tiger is the most common form ; in North Europe, the bear ( see berserker ); in Japan, the fox, tanuki ( raccoon dog ), and sometimes a wolf ; in Africa, the leopard, hyena, or lion ; and in South America, the jaguar.

New Age practices and philosophies sometimes draw inspiration from major world religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Chinese folk religion, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam ( especially Sufism ), Judaism ( especially Kabbalah ), Sikhism ; with strong influences from East Asian religions, Gnosticism, Neopaganism, New Thought, Spiritualism, Theosophy, Universalism and Western esotericism.

Although many of the exotic fruits of Thailand may have been sometimes unavailable in Western countries, many Asian markets import such fruits as rambutan and lychees.

Some East Asian languages, such as Burmese, Korean, and Japanese have simpler tone systems, which are sometimes called ' register ' or ' pitch accent ' systems.

It is sometimes locally referred to as " The Jade Museum " because of the large collection of Asian art made out of jade.

In East Asian societies the boundary between business and social lives can sometimes be ambiguous as people tend to rely heavily on their closer relations and friends.

Zebu cattle are thought to be derived from Asian aurochs, sometimes regarded as a subspecies, Bos primigenius namadicus Another wild cattle species, the gaur ( Bos gaurus ) may also have contributed to their development.

Maida is widely used not only in Indian cuisine but also in Central Asian and Southeast Asian cuisine. Though sometimes referred to as " all-purpose flour " by Indian chefs, it more closely resembles cake flour or even pure starch.

It is sometimes placed in the genus Luscinia, but recent research suggests that the East Asian robins belong into a new genus uniting them with some East Asian Luscinias such as the Siberian Blue Robin.

The fruit is sweet, juicy and succulent in superior agricultural varieties, and apart from being eaten fresh, is also often used in East Asian soups, snacks, desserts, and sweet-and-sour foods, either fresh or dried, sometimes canned with syrup in supermarkets.

Southall is primarily a South Asian residential district, sometimes known as " Little India ".

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, " Asian person " in the United States is sometimes thought of as a person of East Asian descent.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, Portuguese visitors and their South Asian lascar ( and sometimes African ) crewmembers often engaged in slavery in Japan, where they bought or captured young Japanese women and girls, who were either used as sexual slaves on their ships or taken to Macau and other Portuguese colonies in Southeast Asia, the Americas, and India.

It has a number of subspecies across its large range ; a few of the Asian subspecies are sometimes considered to be full species.

This is found to be particularly strong in Asian cultures, where the obtaining of " lucky " telephone numbers, automobile license plate numbers, and household addresses are actively sought, sometimes at great monetary expense.

In the past, the Common House Martin was sometimes considered to be conspecific with the Asian House Martin ( D. dasypus ), which breeds in the mountains of central and eastern Asia and winters in Southeast Asia, and it also closely resembles the Nepal House Martin ( D. nipalense ), a resident in the mountains of southern Asia.

* Longan, a southeast Asian fruit sometimes misspelled “ Logan ”