Meskipun pernah dianggap sebagai bagian dari orang Asia Amerika, definisi modern untuk "orang Asia Amerika" sekarang tidak termasuk orang berlatar belakang Asia Barat.[5]
↑Gryn, Thomas; Gambino, Christine (October 2012). "The Foreign Born From Asia: 2011"(PDF). American Community Survey Briefs, ACSBR/11-06. U.S. Census Bureau. Diarsipkan dari asli(PDF) tanggal January 22, 2013. Diakses tanggal November 16, 2015.
↑Batalova, Jeanne (May 24, 2011). "Asian Immigrants in the United States". Migration Information Source. Migration Policy Institute. Diakses tanggal November 16, 2015. The U.S. Census Bureau defines Asian regions as: ... Western Asia includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
↑Cortellessa, Eric (October 23, 2016). "Israeli, Palestinian Americans could share new 'Middle Eastern' census category". The Times Of Israel. Diakses tanggal September 21, 2020. This derives from a 1915 court ruling in Dow v. United States, in which a Syrian American, George Dow, appealed his being classified by the government as Asian. At the time, such a designation resulted in the denial of citizenship under the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
