types:
Oriental,
oriental person
a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans)
Indian
a native or inhabitant of India
Eurasian
a person of mixed European and Asian descent
Altaic
any member of the peoples speaking a language in the Altaic language group
Armenian
a native or inhabitant of Armenia
Bengali
(Hinduism) a member of a people living in Bangladesh and West Bengal (mainly Hindus)
Burmese
a native or inhabitant of Myanmar
Byzantine
a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire
Chinese
a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
Malay,
Malayan
a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago
Hmong,
Miao
a people living traditionally in mountain villages in southern China and adjacent areas of Vietnam and Laos and Thailand; many have emigrated to the United States
Israelite
a native or inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Israel
Israeli
a native or inhabitant of Israel
Korean
a native or inhabitant of Korea who speaks the Korean language
Kurd
a member of a people who live in Kurdistan, a region in southwest Asia; the largest ethnic group without their own state
Kuwaiti
a native or inhabitant of Kuwait
Lao,
Laotian
a member of a Buddhist people inhabiting the area of the Mekong River in Laos and Thailand and speaking the Lao language; related to the Thais
Lebanese
a native or inhabitant of Lebanon
Parthian
a native or inhabitant of Parthia
Sherpa
a member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers
Syrian
a native or inhabitant of Syria
Tadzhik,
Tajik
a native or inhabitant of Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China
Tibetan
a native or inhabitant of Tibet
Turki
any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language
Iberian
a native or inhabitant of Iberia in the Caucasus
Mongoloid
(offensive and outdated) a member of the Mongoloid race
Timorese
a native or inhabitant of Timor
Evenki,
Ewenki
a member of the people inhabiting an area of northern Mongolia and eastern Siberia
Assamese
native or inhabitant of the state of Assam in northeastern India
Dravidian
a member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed south by Caucasians and now mixed with them)
Kashmiri
a member of the people of Kashmir
Oriya
a member of a people in India living in Orissa and neighboring areas
Panjabi,
Punjabi
a member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India
Kafir
a member of the Kafir people in northeastern Afghanistan
Bornean
a native or inhabitant of Borneo
sabra
a native-born Israeli
Ryukyuan
a member of the Japanese people living on the Ryukyu Islands southwest of Japan
Nip
(offensive slang) offensive term for a person of Japanese descent
Gurkha
a member of Hindu people descended from brahmins and Rajputs who live in Nepal
Brahui
a member of a Dravidian people living in Pakistan
Sindhi
a native or inhabitant of Sind
Khmer
a native or inhabitant of Cambodia
Turk
a native or inhabitant of Turkey
Chuvash
a member of a people of Turkic speech living in the Volga region in eastern Russia
Karakalpak
a member of a Turkic people living near Lake Aral in central Asia
Kazak,
Kazakh
a Muslim who is a member of a Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan)
Khirghiz,
Kirghiz,
Kirgiz
a member of a people of Turkic speech and Mongolian race inhabiting vast regions of central Siberia
Uighur,
Uigur,
Uygur
a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
Yakut
a member of a Turkic people of northeastern Siberia (mainly in the Lena river basin)
Tungusic
any member of a people speaking a language in the Tungusic family
Sumatran
a native or inhabitant of Sumatra
Papuan
a native or inhabitant of Papua New Guinea or New Guinea
Boxer
a member of a nationalistic Chinese secret society that led an unsuccessful rebellion in 1900 against foreign interests in China
Farsi
a person of Iranian descent
geisha,
geisha girl
a Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing
Bohemian,
Gipsy,
Gypsy,
Roma,
Romani,
Romany,
Rommany
a member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in northern India but now are living on all continents (but mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America)
hajji
a general term used by foreign soldiers to refer to the Iraqi people
Hakka
a member of a people of southeastern China (especially Hong Kong, Canton, and Taiwan) who migrated from the north in the 12th century
jawan
(India) a private soldier or male constable
Kshatriya
a member of the royal or warrior Hindu caste
mandarin
a high public official of imperial China
peshmerga
a member of a Kurdish guerilla organization that fights for a free Kurdish state
Rajpoot,
Rajput
a member of the dominant Hindu military caste in northern India
Samaritan
a member of the people inhabiting Samaria in biblical times
shogun
a hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68
Shudra,
Sudra
a member of the lowest or worker Hindu caste
Vaisya
a member of the mercantile and professional Hindu caste; the third of the four main castes