"Asian" is not a helpful term.

[minionofmidas]

Talking about appearance based... had a look at a representative sample of Census Hispanics?

It's a category of convenience. It was also created because South Asians in the US felt they were treated as nonwhites, and therefore were nonwhites, too - they were counted as White in the 1970 census (though not always before... but then South Asian mass immigration only became possible from the 1960s on.)

[minionofmidas]

Talking about appearance based... had a look at a representative sample of Census Hispanics?

The Census does not count Hispanic as a race.

Technically true.

For all practical purposes, however, Hispanic White and Hispanic Other and Hispanic White & Other respondents always get lumped together (and Hispanic Black and Hispanic Native American respondents included in profiles of either group) and divided from the Non-Hispanic Whites.