Context Matters: The Meaning of `Asian'

A wealthy society with a lot of `Asian' immigrants, doing the work the natives don't want. Human sexuality being no respecter of ethnic boundaries, intermarriage occurs. And so one of the nation's newspapers takes note that, with a quarter of all marriages now ``mixed,'' this influx of `Asians' from elsewhere is leading to ``a Multi-Ethnic Society.''

Who are the wealthy natives who must wrestle with these new `Asian' immigrants? South Koreans.