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Lebanese, Iraqis, Jews, Afghans, etc.) is not "an Asian immigrant to Sweden." Thus, looking at Swedish data as to the countries from which people have immigrated to Sweden does not tell you how many Asians immigrated there, much less constitute a classification of Syrians, Armenians, Jordanians, Iranians, etc. as "Asians." The government of Sweden isn't saying that those immigrants are "Asian"; it's saying that they immigrated from countries in Asia (and deeming Turkey to be in Europe).
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As for the issue at hand, the question isn't what a country in Asia is (transcontinental countries notwithstanding, there is general agreement among geographers on the continent's boundaries), but what an "Asian" is. The word "Asian," when used in a racial context (not in a geographic one), does not
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I have no clue which user decided to exclude West Asians from Sweden's Asian population. But it seems to me that you reverted my edits either because of spite or simply because you think that every country in the world excludes West Asians as being "Asian". There is no need for a "consensus", because
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the page lists the exact same number for "Asian-born" people in 2009 at it did in the Stats Sweden website, with 338,037 of Sweden's population stating that were born in Asia. What's more, the 2009 source I provided has an appendix for the countries and continents on page 460. From
Armenia to Lebanon
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It would be more believable for you to claim that your lumping of West Asians into "Asians" is NPOV and has nothing to do with your opinion that West Asians aren't white had you not spent the past couple of weeks editing
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Statistics Sweden PDF source in my second paragraph, immigrants from Turkey were considered immigrants from "Asia", but in the official estimates for foreign-born populations, Turkey is included as part of "Europe", as one of the non-27 EU countries at
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Asian immigrant group, though that has changed because of the Syrian refugee crisis in recent years. See the quote: "Irakierna utgör nu den största invandrargruppen frÄn Asien", or in
English, its basically saying that at the time Iraqis were the largest Asian immigrant group. On the full version of
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to do with whether West Asians are considered part of the arbitrary socially constructed idea of "whiteness". Anyways, according to the
Swedish census statistics, "Asian" means just about everyone from the Asian continent. Not every country excludes West Asians from their definition of "Asia", in
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Maybe you'd prefer that the article have a different scope, and that it be titled, and about, "Immigrants to Sweden from countries in Asia." But that's a different article, covering a different topic. If you wish to change the article's title and scope, discuss it in the Talk page and obtain a
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Francisco with Chinese ancestry who moved to Sweden would be "an Asian immigrant to Sweden" even though he would have emigrated from America, not from Asia. Conversely, a woman of sub-Saharan African descent who was born and raised in Japan would not be "an Asian immigrant to
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definition by removing certain Asian groups. Even though Canada's statistics consider all people from the Asian continent as being "Asian". I'm adding screenshots of the sources from Imgur to further cement my points. Numbers are mainly taken from
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mentions West Asians as being Asian immigrants and how many immigrants came from "Turkiet" (Turkey), "Syrien" (Syria), "Irak" (Iraq) and the "Libaneser" (Lebanese). In fact, at the time that this was published, it states that Iraqis were the
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I have no clue why you claimed that I'm changing this article to match my "POV" that "West Asians are not white". You keep accusing my "POV", but I think you should look at your own point of view, because my change in edits on this page had
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They're both from "Scb.se" website, or the Statistics Sweden website. So that's the only country I'm not sure about.
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