An Afro-Asian is a person of
African and
Asian ancestry. As Afro-Asian is a broad term, it can be broken down into various sub-groups that are distinguished by their demographic location. Due to the widespread African and Asian
diasporas, Afro-Asians reside throughout the world. In
North America,
Latin America and the
Caribbean, the influx of Chinese and Indian workers in the 19th century forming unions with enslaved or free Africans gave rise to significant populations of Afro-Asians. In the United States, the
neologism and
portmanteau "Blasian" has gained informal usage to describe someone of Afro-Asian heritage.
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