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http://www.bbc.co.uk...ngland-17989463 http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/ COMPLAIN TO THEM Dear BBC I wish to make a complaint about your use/abuse of the descriptive term "Asian" to generalise anyone from the continent of Asia and the sub continent of India. It would seem that your use of the term is typically one of negativity when a particular group is in the news for reasons other than socially and culturally conducive reasons. Many people are upset at the generalised term "Asian" when most of the population of the minorities who do come from the continent of Asia and the Indian Sub continent do not use this term. Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists, Chinese, Vietnamese, Burmese are all Asian, they can all be described under the terms of Asian and it is in my opinion quite wrong to generalise such a diverse swathe of people in this broad, sweeping inaccurate term. It is something I feel that is in danger of creating a broad distrust of minorities in general. If one community is in the news for criminal and public order issues then they should be described specifically. You could use the same term as Jack Straw used a few months ago which was “Pakistani Heritage” which is the background of the men in this report. Asian brackets a swathe of people whom have no common ethnic background with the offenders.