Asian pride was originally fragmented, as Asian nations have had long conflicts with each other, examples are the old Japanese and Chinese religious beliefs of their individual superiority.

Asian pride emerged prominently during European colonialism.

White pride advocates claim that there is a cultural double standard in which only certain ethnic groups are permitted to openly express pride in their heritage, and that white pride is not inherently racist, being roughly analogous to racial positions such as Asian pride, black pride, or non-racial forms such as gay pride.

* Asian pride, a slogan

It was said that Woo won the election because of his " family wealth, ethnic pride, younger voters and festering discontent with an incumbent officeholder ," as well as a growing recognition " that the Asian constituency is becoming an important force in California politics.

Aramaic spread across Asia, reaching as far as India and becoming Brahmi, the ancestral abugida to most modern Indian and Southeast Asian scripts.

Similarly, frets on earlier balalaikas were made of animal gut and tied to the neck so that they could be moved around by the player at will ( as is the case with the modern saz, which allows for the microtonal playing distinctive to Turkish and Central Asian music ).

Cognates of " chakra " still exist in modern Asian languages as well.

The Council of Chalcedon was a church council held from October 8 to November 1, 451 AD, at Chalcedon ( a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor ), on the Asian side of the Bosporus, known in modern times as Istanbul.

There are also a large graffiti influences in Southeast Asian countries that mostly come from modern Western culture, such as Malaysia, where graffiti has long been a common sight in Malaysia's capital city, Kuala Lumpur.

The ascription of Indus Valley Civilization iconography and epigraphy to historically known cultures is extremely problematic, in part due to the rather tenuous archaeological evidence of such claims, as well as the projection of modern South Asian political concerns onto the archaeological record of the area.

A group of studies have recently shown that genetic patterns at the EDAR locus, a region of the modern human genome that contributes to hair texture variation among most individuals of East Asian descent, support the hypothesis that ( East Asian ) straight hair likely developed in this branch of the modern human lineage subsequent to the original expression of tightly coiled natural afro-hair.

These specimens are the earliest known relatives of modern salamanders, and together with the numerous other basal groups of salamanders found in the Asian fossil record, they form a concrete base of evidence for the fact that “ the early diversification of salamanders was well underway ” in Asia during the Jurassic period.

Within the next century, however, European and Asian economies were slowly becoming integrated through the rise of new global trade routes ; and the early thrust of European political power, commerce, and culture in Asia gave rise to a growing trade in lucrative commodities — a key development in the rise of today's modern world free market economy

Today, people of Mongol origin live in modern state of Mongolia, China ( mainly Inner Mongolia ), Russia, and a few other Central Asian countries.

The foundation of modern Asian martial arts is likely a blend of early Chinese and Indian martial arts.

Due in part to Asian and Hollywood martial arts movies, most modern American martial arts are either Asian-derived or Asian influenced.

However, most species of mammoth were only about as large as a modern Asian elephant.

and age and place of origin on the other ( Bronze Age, Iron Age, European ( medieval, early modern, modern ), Asian ).

The color of modern robes varies from community to community ( saffron is characteristic for southeast Asian Theravada and Mahayana groups, maroon in Tibet, gray in Korea, black in Japan etc.

In modern usage, Uyghur refers to settled Turkic urban dwellers and farmers of Kashgaria or Uyghurstan who follow traditional Central Asian sedentary practices, as distinguished from nomadic Turkic populations in Central Asia.

Taxonomists disagree whether or not the modern Pygmy Hippopotamus is a member of Hexaprotodon — an apparently paraphyletic genus also embracing many extinct Asian hippopotamuses that is more closely related to Hippopotamus, or Choeropsis — an older and basal genus.

Additionally X. 25 is still under heavy use in the aeronautical business ( especially in the Asian region ) even though a transition to modern protocols like X. 400 is without option as X. 25 hardware becomes increasingly rare and costly.

The practice draws on East Asian mysticism and traditional Chinese medicine, criticizes the purportedly self-imposed limits of modern science, and views traditional Chinese science as an entirely different, yet equally valid ontological system.

Framed free reeds are used on ancient Asian instruments such as the Chinese shēng, Japanese shō, and Laotian khene, and modern European instruments such as the harmonium or reed organ, harmonica, concertina, bandoneón, accordion, and Russian bayan.

In the late 1960s, some skinheads in the United Kingdom ( including black skinheads ) had engaged in violence against South Asian immigrants ( an act known as Paki bashing in common slang ).

is a slang term for unusual forms of English language usage by native speakers of some East Asian languages.

* Brown Bear ( gay slang ) – a man of Hispanic, South Asian, or Middle Eastern origin with a stocky or heavyset build and typically hairy body and face.

* Panda Bear ( gay slang ) – a man of East Asian origin with a stocky or heavyset build and typically hairy body and face.

Bhangragga is a slang term for the style of music incorporating elements of Bhangra and dancehall ( or Ragga, short for the word Raggamuffin ) created by British Asian producers alex and lennart on the debut album by Apache Indian No Reservations ( 1993 ).

Gweilo or Gwailo (; Cantonese gwai2 lou2, pronounced ) is a common Cantonese slang term for foreigners although this does not apply to many other Asian races, and has a long history of racially deprecatory use.

In gay slang, a " queen " is an effeminate gay man, or a gay man with a specializied quality ( e. g. " rice queen ," for a non-Asian gay man who prefers Asian men ; " snow queen " for a non-caucasian man who likes caucasian men ; and " bean queen ," for a gay man who prefers Hispanic men ).

* Adda ( South Asian ), a concept / slang in South Asia, especial Bengal, also Addabazi

* American-Born Confused Desi, refers to American youth of South Asian descent

In most Asian countries, a sword ( jian 劍, geom ( 검 ), ken / tsurugi ( 剣 ), pedang ) is a double-edged straight-bladed weapon, while a knife or saber ( dāo 刀, do ( 도 ), to / katana ( 刀 ), pisau, golok ) refers to a single-edged object.

In current usage, Uyghur refers to settled Turkic urban dwellers and farmers of the Tarim Basin and Ili who follow traditional Central Asian sedentary practices, as distinguished from nomadic Turkic populations in Central Asia.

Asian refers to anything related to the continent of Asia, especially Asian people.

Red bean soup refers to various traditional Asian soups made with azuki beans.

The word Eurasian refers to people of mixed Asian and European ancestry.

* Asian refers to people or objects from Asia ; Oriental refers to objects.

East Asian Yogācāra refers to the traditions in East Asia which represent the Indian Yogācāra system of thought.

In the United Kingdom, " Asian cuisine " most often refers to South Asian cuisine, while in the United States and Australia it usually refers to East Asian ( Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ) and Southeast Asian cuisine, in addition to South Asian cuisine.

The word refers to an Asian slave.