Are Uzbek people Asians

Answer 1

This is a question that relies more on how a person defines the word "Asian" than it does with any issue of Uzbekistan's geography or Uzbek appearances.

In the West, especially the United States, the word "Asian" is often used as a euphemism for "East Asian" or "Oriental", referring almost exclusively to people of Han Chinese, Korean, or Japanese descent. They will additionally consider the peoples of Southeast Asia (like Burmese, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and others) to be Asian. Under such a narrow rubric, Uzbek people would not qualify as Asians.

A number of Westerners expand the definition of Asian to not only include East Asians and Southeast Asians, but also the people of the Indian Subcontinent (like Indians, Pakistanis, and Bengalis). This is the definition used in the US Census Bureau. However, this does not change whether Uzbek people would be considered Asians; under this rubric they are not Asians.

However, if the word "Asian" strictly refers to any person whose ancestry goes back to Asia, than Uzbek people are certainly Asian, since Uzbekistan is in Central Asia.

From a question of appearances, most Uzbeks are clearly a Central Asian or Türkic People. Uzbeks in particular generally look like a mixture between East Asians (like Han Chinese) and Mediterranean Peoples (Spaniards, Italians, Greeks, Turkish People, and Arabs), at a ratio of 1/3 East Asian and 2/3 Mediterranean. Central Asian People are not captured under any of the racial category definitions provided by the US Census.