Don some people consider the term Eurasian itself to be problematic?
Some people consider the word Eurasian to be Orientalist—Orientalism being a way of characterizing Asian cultures as exotic and mysterious (and by extension irrational, and thus less human). The term ‘Eurasian’ was also considered somewhat derogatory in colonial India, for reasons I am unsure of. In the meantime, I know of no other preferable term, at least for myself. In the United States there is a movement to make hapa a term of self-empowerment, but this strikes me as 1) connoting only Americans in the context of Westernness (thereby excluding Europeans, Australians, and others), and 2) encompassing Asian-all mixes (not limiting it to Caucasian-Asians but including so-called “double minorities”—not to marginalize such people, but I think there can be a dynamic when one’s racial or ethnic minority heritage is mixed with the “dominant” or “mainstream” one that does not otherwise exist. (Such a dynamic might include the struggle over whether to try to “pass”, for example.) Incidentall
