It also does not include western Asians, such as Turks.
This particular one includes whites, blacks and Asians, who don't, for the time we see them, talk race.
He also noted that the editorial board of the Princetonian included several Asians.
Among all minorities, a group that includes Asians and mixed-race households, the rate was 51 percent in 2005, up from 44 percent a decade ago.
It is not clear whether these figures included Asians.
Another national audit, which for the first time included Asians, was done in 2000; the results are due this year.
(All the figures the district collects on whites include Asians, who make up about 4 percent of the school population.)
There was no plan to include Asians, native Americans or other minorities, he said.
Members include Chinese, other Asians and Westerners from all over the world.
This was a carryover from the colonial era caste system, which did not include Asians.