laws in support of affirmative action policies for Blacks; under these they define

"Black" people to include "Africans", "Coloureds" and "Asians". Some affirmative

action policies favor "Africans" over "Coloureds" in terms of qualifying for
certain benefits. Some South Africans categorized as "African Black" say that
"Coloureds" did not suffer as much as they did during apartheid. "Coloured" South
Africans are known to discuss their dilemma by saying, "we were not white enough
under apartheid, and we are not black enough under the ANC (African National
Congress)".In 2008, the High Court in South Africa ruled that Chinese South
Africans who were residents during the apartheid era (and their descendants) are to
be reclassified as "Black people," solely for the purposes of accessing affirmative
action benefits, because they were also "disadvantaged" by racial discrimination.
Chinese people who arrived in the country after the end of apartheid do not qualify
for such benefits.Other than by appearance, "Coloureds" can usually be
distinguished from "Blacks" by language. Most speak Afrikaans or English as a first
language, as opposed to Bantu languages such as Zulu or Xhosa. They also tend to
have more European-sounding names than Bantu names.
Asia

"Afro-Asians" or "African-Asians" (also "black Asians" or "blasians"), are persons

of mixed Sub-Saharan African and Asian ancestry. Historically, Afro-Asian
populations have been marginalized as a result of human migration and social
conflict.
Western Asia
Arab world

Historians estimate that between the advent of Islam in 650 CE and the abolition of
slavery in the Arabian Peninsula in the mid-20th century, 10 to 18 million Black
Africans (known as the Zanj) were enslaved by east African slave traders and
transported to the Arabian Peninsula and neighboring countries. This number far
exceeded the number of slaves who were taken to the Americas. Several factors
affected the visibility of descendants of this diaspora in 21st-century Arab
societies: The traders shipped more female slaves than males, as there was a demand
for them to serve as concubines in harems in the Arabian Peninsula and neighboring
countries. Male slaves were castrated in order to serve as harem guards. The death
toll of Black African slaves from forced labor was high. The mixed-race children of
female slaves and Arab owners were assimilated into the Arab owners' families under
the patrilineal kinship system. As a result, few distinctive Afro-Arab communities
have survived in the Arabian Peninsula and neighboring countries.Distinctive and
self-identified black communities have been reported in countries such as Iraq,
with a reported 1.2 million black people, and they attest to a history of
discrimination. These descendants of the Zanj have sought minority status from the
government, which would reserve some seats in Parliament for representatives of
their population. According to Alamin M. Mazrui et al., generally in the Arabian
Peninsula and neighboring countries, most of these communities identify as both
black and Arab.
Iran

Afro-Iranians are people of black African ancestry residing in Iran. During the
Qajar dynasty, many wealthy households imported black African women and children as
slaves to perform domestic work. This slave labor was drawn exclusively from the
Zanj, who were Bantu-speaking peoples that lived along the African Great Lakes, in
an area roughly comprising modern-day Tanzania, Mozambique and Malawi.
Israel

About 150,000 East African and black people live in Israel, amounting to just over
2% of the nation's population. The vast majority of these, some 120,000, are Beta
Israel, most of whom are recent immigrants who came during the 1980s and 1990s from
Ethiopia. In addition, Israel is home to over 5,000 members of the African Hebrew
Israelites of Jerusalem movement that are ancestry of African Americans who
emigrated to Israel in the 20th century, and who reside mainly in a distinct
neighborhood in the Negev town of Dimona. Unknown numbers of black converts to
Judaism reside in Israel, most of them converts from the United Kingdom, Canada,
and the United States.

Additionally, there are around 60,000 non-Jewish African immigrants in Israel, some
of whom have sought asylum. Most of the migrants are from communities in Sudan and
Eritrea, particularly the Niger-Congo-speaking Nuba groups of the southern Nuba
Mountains; some are illegal immigrants.
Turkey

Beginning several centuries ago, during the period of the Ottoman Empire, tens of
thousands of Zanj captives were brought by slave traders to plantations and
agricultural areas situated between Antalya and Istanbul in present-day Turkey.
Some of their ancestry remained in situ, and many migrated to larger cities and
towns. Other black slaves were transported to Crete, from where they or their
descendants later reached the İzmir area through the population exchange between
Greece and Turkey in 1923, or indirectly from Ayvalık in pursuit of work.
Southern Asia

The Siddi are an ethnic group inhabiting India and Pakistan. Members are descended
from the Bantu peoples of Southeast Africa. Some were merchants, sailors,
indentured servants, slaves or mercenaries. The Siddi population is currently
estimated at around 270,000–350,000 individuals, living mostly in Karnataka,
Gujarat, and Hyderabad in India and Makran and Karachi in Pakistan. In the Makran
strip of the Sindh and Balochistan provinces in southwestern Pakistan, these Bantu
descendants are known as the Makrani. There was a brief "Black Power" movement in
Sindh in the 1960s and many Siddi are proud of and celebrate their African
ancestry.
Southeastern Asia

Negritos are believed to have been the first inhabitants of Southeast Asia. Once
inhabiting Taiwan, Vietnam, and various other parts of Asia, they are now confined
primarily to Thailand, the Malay Archipelago, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
of India. Negrito means "little black people" in Spanish (negrito is the Spanish
diminutive of negro, i.e., "little black person"); it is what the Spaniards called
the aborigines that they encountered in the Philippines. The term Negrito itself
has come under criticism in countries like Malaysia, where it is now
interchangeable with the more acceptable Semang, although this term actually refers
to a specific group.

Negritos in the Philippines, and Southeast Asia in general, face much

discrimination. Usually, they are marginalized and live in poverty, unable to find
employment that will take them.
Europe
Western Europe