If these are both "ASIANS", the word Asian is basically useless as a qualifier.
I guess we need to go back to using the word mongoloids but google says that word is racist.
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when your ancestors came from the ural mountains... guess im something of a mongoloid myself
The University of California used to call all North Africans and Southwest Asians White until they broke that off into its own category. That included Sudanese people.