[TalnSG]

Sorry, to disappoint you, but the generic race term would be Asian, though like Latino or Hispanic, it would often be too vague or even possibly misleading.

In the absence of definitive knowledge of what a person's heritage is, it would seem less offensive to refer to them as Asian, than to mistakenly use something more specific and be wrong. I would not welcome the response if I referred to a Korean as Japanese, or someone Japanese as Chinese. And in any case "Asian" is FAR more acceptable than the generic term used previously - Oriental.