&gt;  Grouping South and East Asians seems pretty silly to me.<p>Agreed 100%.<p>Honestly, even lumping all South Asians together and all East Asians together is pretty silly and obscures a lot of cultural, linguistic, socioeconomic, etc. differences that are hugely important when talking about &quot;diversity&quot;.<p>Let&#x27;s not forget that literally <i>over half the world&#x27;s population</i> is South Asian or East Asian[0]. It&#x27;d be ridiculous <i>not</i> to assume that these are incredibly heterogeneous groups that can&#x27;t be all bucketed under the same category, but sadly, that&#x27;s what people generally do.<p>[0] Before someone points out that &quot;Asians&quot; are a smaller percentage of the US population - yes, but that misses the point. These group definitions are arbitrary (and have changed greatly over the years). If we&#x27;re going to talk about racial and ethnic origin as a component of diversity, we can&#x27;t gerrymander the group definitions unless our actual goal is to artificially inflate metrics on diversity.