Someone may identify as Pacific Islander if they or their family come from Polynesia, Micronesia, or Melanesia,regions that include countries like, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, and many more. Who may identify as Asian? One may identify as Asian if they have "origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam," according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Related Story What other AAPI identifies are there? While we're here, lets go over some other AAPI-related terms. Some of these may overlap, and this list by no means exhausts that various identities in the AAPI community: