In my experience, most Pacific Islanders like to be thought of as separate from the Asian continent. My cousins are from a small island near Guam, and though they don't object to being called Asian, they prefer not. I'm not knocking on Habib, my Russian friends, or anyone else for calling themselves Asian (and we still don't know if he's from India, that was just an assumption based on his name), I just think it's interesting that such a diverse group of people identify themselves with that continent.