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Some Afghan Americans, however, may self identify as being Middle Eastern Americans, Central Asian Americans or South Asian Americans. [ 48 ] [ 49 ] In recent years the creation of a new census category called SWANA (which includes Afghan Americans) has been proposed in an effort for more accurate categorization.
The Afghan Americans may originate from any of the ethnic groups of Afghanistan. They have long been considered by the Board of Immigration Appeals and the United States Census Bureau as White Americans, [ 9 ] but a significant number may also identify themselves as Middle Eastern Americans or Asian Americans.
Central Asian Americans, including Afghan Americans, Baloch Americans, Kazakh Americans, Kyrgyz Americans, Tajik Americans, Turkmen Americans, Uzbek Americans, and Uyghur Americans. This grouping is by country of origin before immigration to the United States, and not necessarily by ethnicity, as for example (nonexclusive), Singaporean ...
Asian American history is the history of ethnic and racial groups in ... Vincent Chin's murder is often considered the beginning of a pan-ethnic ... Afghan American ...
Unlike Southeast Asians, Afghan Americans, Arab Americans, Armenian Americans, Assyrian Americans, Azerbaijani Americans, Georgian Americans, Israeli Americans, Kurdish Americans, Turkish Americans, Iranian Americans, and Central Asian Americans have not lobbied to be included as Asians by the U.S. Census Board.
As refugees arrive in the U.S. from Afghanistan, activists are calling for the Biden administration to offer more to help them during their resettlement.
The reason for this usage might be because the term "Afghani" (افغانی) is in fact a valid demonym for Afghans in the overall Persian language, whereas "Afghan" is derived from Pashto. Thus, "Afghan" is the anglicized form of "Afghani" when translating from Dari Persian, but not from Pashto. [81]
In the first college admissions process since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action last year, Asian American enrollment at the most prestigious U.S. schools paints a mixed, uneven picture.