Where are Asians from?

Asians refer to people of Asian descent who live abroad and acquire foreign nationality. For example, Asian Americans refer to Asian American citizens, mainly including Chinese Americans, Filipino Americans, Korean Americans and Indian Americans.

In the definition of the US Census Bureau, Asians are "any indigenous people who originated in the Far East, Southeast Asia or the Indian subcontinent, such as China, Cambodia, India, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam", including immigrants or descendants of immigrants from more than 20 countries and regions.

Chinese foreign citizens

Chinese-Americans refer to those China people who have designated to live abroad to acquire nationality outside China (also known as X-Chinese) and those who were born abroad and have foreign nationality according to the laws of the country of birth. That is to say, legally speaking, they are no longer citizens of China, but by descent, they are descendants of China people.

Before the founding of the Republic of China, the Han nationality who settled overseas appeared in books in the name of "Tang people". After the founding of the Republic of China, "China people", "overseas Chinese" or "overseas Chinese" were used. There are many overseas Chinese of the older generation who call themselves Tang people, called Chinatown. Before the founding of the Republic of China, "Chinese/Putonghua/Mandarin/Mandarin/Mandarin" was not widely taught and used. Therefore, Tang people who emigrated overseas generally talked in their own dialects.