![]() ![]() Use of pan-ethnic and regional Asian labels Just one-in-five Indian (21%) and Japanese (20%) adults say they do the same. Meanwhile, about four-in-ten Vietnamese adults (41%) say they most often describe their identity with their ethnic origin and the label American. By contrast, Japanese adults (14%) are least likely of the six most populous Asian ethnic groups to describe themselves by ethnicity alone. Some 41% of Indian adults do this, calling themselves most often Indian. are the most likely of the largest Asian groups to say they most often use their ethnic identity term, without the addition of American, to describe themselves. By contrast, just 34% of Japanese adults say they use Japanese or Japanese American to describe their identity.īut these broad results mask some important patterns. ![]() About half of Chinese adults (51%) say the same. About two-thirds of Korean (66%) and Vietnamese (64%) adults say they do so, while about six-in-ten Indian and Filipino adults do (62% and 61% respectively). Use of ethnic origin labels among the largest origin groupsĪbout half or more of adults from five of the six largest Asian origin groups use their ethnic label, either alone or together with American, most often to describe their identity. Altogether, about half (51%) of Asian adults use American one of these three ways when describing their identity.Īnother 6% say they use a regional Asian pan-ethnic label such as South Asian or Southeast Asian to describe themselves most often. According to the survey, 28% say they describe themselves most often using the pan-ethnic label Asian, either alone (12%) or as Asian American (16%).Īnd while just 10% say they most often use American on its own to describe their identity, 25% use their ethnic origin combined with American and 16% use Asian American. Still, some Asian adults use pan-ethnic labels. Asian adults place greater emphasis on their ethnic origins rather than pan-ethnic or regional labels, according to the new survey.Ībout half (52%) of Asian adults say they describe themselves most often by their ethnic origin, either alone (26%) such as Japanese or Korean or in combination with American (25%) such as Vietnamese American. However, when asked how they describe themselves, U.S. are often described as a single group, often with the pan-ethnic label Asian American. describe their identityĪsians living in the U.S. In addition, the survey explored how others would describe them when walking past them on the street. They were also asked which regional groups from the continent of Asia they would consider to be Asian. In the new Pew Research Center survey, Asian adults were asked about how they describe their identity most often. also sometimes chose to combine their racial or ethnic identities with American, such as Asian American or Vietnamese American respectively. Some choose to identify with their ethnic origins such as Filipino or Korean or Chinese, some with the pan-ethnic label Asian, some with a regional identity such as South Asian and others with an American identity. personally describe their own identities. This geographic diversity translates into multiple ways Asians in the U.S. ![]() Asians in the United States trace their origins to a vast continent that spans more than 20 countries in East and Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent. ![]()
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