Parvati and Padma Patil

[jennyandduncan]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "pitaprh" <12499 at m...> wrote:
> I am sure we have all heard of the auditions that were recently 
had 
> for these two parts.  Did anyone else not picture these two 
> characters as Asian?  I would have thought more Indian, as in from 
> India?

Carin replies:

I think this is a British vs. American English difference. In 
Britain, "Asian" is used to refer to people from the Indian 
subcontinent, while "Oriental" refers to those from the Far East.

Carin