Asian has a place in a person's heart (7)
I believe the answer is:
malayan
'asian' is the definition.
(I know that Malayan is a type of asian)
'a place in a person's heart' is the wordplay.
'place' becomes 'lay' (laying is a kind of placing).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'a person's heart' becomes 'man' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a'+'lay'='alay'
'alay' placed inside 'man' is 'MALAYAN'.
'has' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for malayan that I've seen before include "Language of SE Asia" , "Austronesian language" , "Asian" , "A layman (anag.)" , "Oriental language" .)