Why do we not count the indian countries as asian?
I've always heard of them as being considered asian.
India is in asia.
It's certainly not in Europe, that would be way too east to consider part of europe and it's most definitely not on the African continent nor is it Middle Eastern.
I'm pretty certain that Indians, as well as Bangladeshis, Nepalese and Pakistani's consider themselves asian.
You're just not thinking of them as asian likely due to a typical modern western view.
Indians might not be light of skin or have squinted eyes, but that doesn't mean they're not asian.
Not all asians look like Chinese/Korean/Japanese.
I like to consider the names of the areas to progress from Europe to Asia as you move east across the globe from Britain.
Starting from Britain to Russia (Stoping short horizontally at Kazakhstan) you have Europe.
From there, you get Eurasia, which includes for me, Turkey and Azerbaijan and really leads on to the Middle East.
Which is of course the joining site of Africa and Eurasia as landmasses.
Once you've completed that section you enter Asia through-and-through and are in the orient until you travel through India, China, onto Japan and all the way across it and hit the Pacific.
