The Chinese have such influence in America (and many regions of the world) that to many Americans, anyone with dark hair, yellowish skin, squinty/slanty eyes, and small/short is Chinese, and thus, Asian. Indians don’t exactly share those features.
I briefly dated this Indian girl when I was working part time for this club/bar. I didn’t know it at the time, but the girl I dated was the younger sister of the owner. Dude was a very pleasant man until he found out I was dating his sister. He tried to have the other bouncers I was working with to beat me up. The girl was very pretty (I find Indian women to be gorgeous, dark skin and sharp features while maintaining their femininity), but I wasn’t about to get my ass kicked or going to jail by beating him up.
You wouldn’t happen to be an owner of a club in the Sacramento area with a hot younger sister, would you?