Petite Asian
Geographically and technically, both petite asian and Asiatic indicates a person, place, thing, or idea original to Asia. In common English parlance, however, the term Asian is often used to indicate people from, and places in, only one part of Asia -- typically East Asia (China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea), Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines) or South Asia (Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, The Maldives), and sometimes also Central Asia (Afghanistan, Mongolia, Tibet, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan). Although the main use of the term petite asian in everyday English is to describe people, in one way or another, when describing objects or concepts from Asia, the term Asian is usually understood to be more loosely defined, albeit perhaps still not fully synchronous with its geographic definition.
