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It made me think of a post by progressive Muslim blogger Ali Eteraz from last week, where he discussed his own variant of an identity term crisis, not on racial but religious terms:

I onced asked a little kid I know what he was. He was like, um, er, I am a Pakistani-Muslim-American. I was like, what the hell, thats messed up, little kids shouldnt have to hyphenate their identities like that, man.

Then one day I was typing up a post and I was like dammit I am really tired of having to write out the whole word American-Muslim or American-Islam. Its just tiring.

So I decided that we needed a new ONE WORD term to call ourselves In the end, I decided Im going to use AmeriMuslim - it is easy to understand, and it sounds like A merry Muslim. So from now on, thats what Im going to use as my identity, thats what Im going to teach nieces and nephews to say, and thats what Im going to use even in my actual publications.(link)
Given that Ali Eteraz is (I believe) of Pakistani descent, my first thought is to say, well, why not South Asian? If we want to limit it to just one word, why not desi or deshi? Of course, in a sense I already know the answer: if religion is the most important aspect of ones identity, one obviously privileges it over ethnicity. (Analogously, I also know a fair number of conservative Sikhs who are adamantly Sikh American and not Indian American or South Asian American.)

Within individual states in the Indian Subcontinent, the term South Asian is rarely used. The progressive magazine Himal Southasian attempts to move beyond national identifications to a more regional, South Asian focus, but its the only enterprise I know of that does that. If South Asian exists mainly in the imagination of the diaspora, does that make it less meaningful

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