Originally Posted by
GoldfishMan
Sorry to break it to you bro. Unfortunately you WILL be categorised as Indian in this situation.
You see, the participants in this industry are not the most eloquent bunch. When they say "Indian", they don't mean a person who's from India proper, they mean anyone from the subcontinent.
Why do they do this, you might ask. I'd wager that it's because they didn't even know there was a specific region called South Asia. If they saw a South Asian looking guy on the street, they would just use the term "Indian guy" to describe him. Think of the "Indian" term here as similar in meaning to "Caucasian", "white", "black", "Chinese"... A very generic term to describe an entire race without knowing exactly where that person was really from, simply because of that person's physical appearance.