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“Indians are not Asians”

6 min readNov 2, 2022

But don’t tell the “South Asians” that

Trigger Warning Racism, Han supremacy, Hinduphobia, white supremacy, anti-Blackness

A screenshot of the Daily Show were a Malaysian Chinese man wearing a grey suit stands before a screen that shows a picture of an British Indian man wearing a blue suit. Caption on the bottom of the picture reads: “Indians are not Asians, OK?” — Screenshot

Ronny Chieng recently got in trouble for his Daily Show skit talking about how Rishi Sunak isn’t “Asian” and Ronny doesn’t feel “represented” by Rishi because “Indians aren’t Asians”.

Tweet from Daily Show reads: Don’t call Rishi Sunak the UK’s first Asian PM in front of @ronnychieng. Below that is a vidio of Ronny’s skit on the Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Caption video reads: “Indians are not Asians, OK?” — Screenshot

Trevor Noah giggled along as Ronny said these things, right there on stage and on camera. The audience roared with laughter. Click on the tweet to watch.