Before school was over, one of my team partners kind had this chat with me about Asian culture/races/ and Whites races stereotypes. Further educationing, the minor/major differences between the two. As, you mentioned, all White people look alike; kinda true and false.
If you changed the questions around and asked, "What's your nationality?" then, it would not become a racial thing. But, if you ask, "What's your ethnicity?", then this becomes a racial issue. I did highly emphasized to anyone using this question, who is not 100% sure, what nationality is that person. It reduces the miscommunication with a peaceful resolve.
I am Asian, so here is my labeled by people see me at first glance. Are you Flipino, Japanese, Guangzhou, Korean, must be somewhere from South China? When, I first been asked, are you Japanese? Kinda was blown away because this would be my last one of selected races. If anyone has this kind of experiences, please feel free.
My calm attitude is hey, this is real life. We all make mistakes at first glance, once you spend time and set down with that person and explain the differences. Then, next time this issue would not come up again; I hope. But, Asian does comes in all kinds of shapes, sizes, color, etc. The Asians are very mixed indeed; Asian-Candian, Asian-Austrilian, Asian/Japanese-African [Actually they come out very nice], Asian-Spanish-Malaysian, Flipino, etc.
You kinda get the picture, as someone mentioned, as Asians are all over the globe. We are like colorful flowers poping all over the place
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It could be that we distinguish the race that we interact with the most (was mentioned further on at this website). I agree with him/her!Originally Posted by http://www.samlau.com/tertiary/2006/02/all_asians_look_the_same.html
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People are just going to have to learn to ask instead of assuming. It's hard to tell, I took the face, building structure, and food exam at that website posted earlier and failed.
Some are very easy to tell, like you can tell Sandra Oh is Korean. Daniel Dae Kim and the lady who plays his wife on Lost are both obviously Korean too. It's hard to put into words, but usually you can form a first impression. It won't alway be right, especially with mixed marriages nowadays, but it's ususally fairly accurate.
Most people think I am from Hong Kong when they first meet me. I am from Southern China so it's kinda close.
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