The sad part is that when people think of "Asian," they limit their visualization primarily to people of East Asian or Polynesian/Melanesian descent. This, in effect, marginalizes people of South Asian and West Asian lineage (and sometimes Austronesian people). All the more reason why Americans with ancestry from the Middle East, North Arabic, and other parts of the Arabic world are calling for a "MENA" racial category to be added to the U.S. Census. But too many of those who are in power don't want to allow that, because it would reduce the statistical amount of people whom the Census presently chooses to classify as "White," presumably "weakening" their hold on white supremacy.