Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
East Asian .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word East Asians.
Examples
-
Wow, wow, wow, if terrorism starts targeting East Asians and moving into the economically advanced part of East Asia, the world is going to be a very different place.
Uighurs Provoke Beijing Michael Turton 2009
-
Census Bureau, those groups currently categorized as racial minorities—blacks and Hispanics, East Asians and South Asians—will account for a majority of the U.S. population by the year 2042.
-
The breakthroughs are mainly being achieved by a very specific group of ethnic minorities: the Indian middle class, East Asians, the Chinese, and some African blacks.
-
In fact, the East Asians carry these values back to an already sissified and welfared populations of the continent.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Case Against the Libertarian Case Against Hispanic Immigration: 2009
-
It also helps that East Asian culture is very polite and East Asians do not publicly demonstrate any feelings of superiority over the natives.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Case Against the Libertarian Case Against Hispanic Immigration: 2009
-
Neuroscientists Trey Hedden and John Gabrieli of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research asked Americans and East Asians to solve basic shape puzzles while in a functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI scanner.
Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008
-
And in East Asians, they found strong evidence of positive selection in genes involved in the production of alcohol dehydrogenase ADH, a protein necessary for breaking down alcohol.
Human Evolution Zoe Brain 2006
-
And in East Asians, they found strong evidence of positive selection in genes involved in the production of alcohol dehydrogenase ADH, a protein necessary for breaking down alcohol.
Archive 2006-08-01 Zoe Brain 2006
-
In comparison, essentially no native Africans or East Asians carry delta32.
Archive 2005-11-01 Peggy 2005
-
In comparison, essentially no native Africans or East Asians carry delta32.
Secrets of the Dead: Descendants of plague survivors and HIV resistance 2005
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.