User blog comment:Blinkn/Where are the Asians?/@comment-4590769-20120611230741/@comment-821254-20120612195546

Asian is an umbrella term that at its most inclusive covers all peoples located with the continent. Dust is from Afghanistan, which is located in the Asian continent, so by that definition, yes, she is Asian.

She is not the conventional Asian. Most people when they refer to Asian seem to mean East and Southeast Asian peoples like Koreans, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Cambodian, and etc... Which is fine, it's usually what I mean when I use the term, but its much broader than that.

Basically anyone not Black, Caucasian, and Latino falls into the Asian group. And really Latino/ Hispanic, as with most aboriginal people probably falls under Asian as well but with such divergent cultures, European influences, and being on different continents its a reasonable distinction.