Asian (South Africa)
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In South Africa, Asian usually refers to people of South Asian ancestry, more commonly called Indians.[1][2] They are largely descended from people who migrated to South Africa in the late 19th and early 20th century from British ruled South Asia.
The "Indian"/"Asian" identity was codified by law under Apartheid as a race group.[3] This term excluded other peoples from Continental Asia, including East Asians such as the Chinese, who were either classified as Coloureds or Honorary whites,[2] West Asians (particularly the Lebanese and Syrians), who were originally classified as "Asian" until the early 1900s,[4] and later as “white”, or groups like the Cape Malays who have some degree of Southeast Asian ancestry, and were classified as a subgroup of Coloured.