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Damn right next to an Asian lady too 
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Dude from Big Bang caught up in some wild stuff. Korean organized crime ****.
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From my experience.. its mainly down south where they think all asians are chinese.
Have a coworker whos in his early 40 move up here (seattle) a few years ago from SC and he legit didnt know there where other asian ethnicities besides chinese. Straight told me back home he called all asians Chinese.
Ironically his current gf now is thai.
@sckid... thoughts?
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I use to get questions like "Are you Asian or _ (Asian country)" all the time. Like son, what are you asking me?
Funniest **** was seeing people add 'nese' to the end of Asian nationalities for no reason lmao. Phillipinese. Tibetanese.
I feel like, esp the more hood people I hung out with growing up, Chinese is used all the time instead of Asian. I'm not actually sure what they think Asian is then. I guess in their head it's a country next to China.
Funniest **** was seeing people add 'nese' to the end of Asian nationalities for no reason lmao. Phillipinese. Tibetanese.
I feel like, esp the more hood people I hung out with growing up, Chinese is used all the time instead of Asian. I'm not actually sure what they think Asian is then. I guess in their head it's a country next to China.
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Im sure Latinos get the same treatment with them all being "Mexican"
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We use to call every Latino person Spanish growing up. But they called themselves that too.
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Got my Korean air Visa card. Boutta rack up miles on this joint 
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From my experience.. its mainly down south where they think all asians are chinese.
Have a coworker whos in his early 40 move up here (seattle) a few years ago from SC and he legit didnt know there where other asian ethnicities besides chinese. Straight told me back home he called all asians Chinese.
Ironically his current gf now is thai.
@sckid... thoughts?
I should clarify, the ignorant co-worker was stunned that Asians care that people know we aren't just "the same".
He also told me he watches Asian pron so he's not racist
To me, it's just hard to grasp someone not knowing, even if they've never met an actual Asian person, because almost every American war of the 20th century involved an Asian country.....
I think someone can have Asian friends, co-workers, boyfriends, girlfriends, be married to one, love k-pop, anime, food etc yet still be racist towards Asians.
Some feel they aren't racist because they aren't "hating" or it's "positive stereotype" or it's overreacting.
Saw an Asian poker pro tweet about something that happened at the table, basically some guy won a hand against the pro, and loudly declared "There's a ch_nk in the armor, repeated "Ch*nk" several times". What struck me was the vast number of comments about how the saying isn't racist and the Asian was the one making it "racial".
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sucks to see people still doing this and passing it on to the next generation. A lot of kids are actually doing this in snaps and sending them to their asian classmates. Bad enough being bullied at school, but now kids gotta deal with this bs on their phones too
My response to that is
"My eyes are wide screen. I see things in 4k hd. You have crappy CRT eyes." ahhahahahahhahaha
Or I tell em, " yup, me , Kobe, Brad Pitt, and Tyson Beckford got chinky eyes, and I wink at their girl after". The response I get is just plain perplexing because of my arrogance in the response.
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seriously, some americans are really dumb and ignorant as fk imo
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seriously, most americans are really dumb and ignorant as fk imo
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Speaking of eyes, just stumble on this vid
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down south they think all latinos are mexican... lolFrom my experience.. its mainly down south where they think all asians are chinese.
Have a coworker whos in his early 40 move up here (seattle) a few years ago from SC and he legit didnt know there where other asian ethnicities besides chinese. Straight told me back home he called all asians Chinese.
Ironically his current gf now is thai.
@sckid... thoughts?
i was exposed to asians as a youth... I took kyokushin kai from ages 8 to 14. My shihan was japanese and my uncle was big into karate flix, so he schooled me on koreans, japanese and chinese. I couldnt really tell the difference in between races by looking at them until i went to Japan for a year while in the military, and now i can tell who is who just off of facial structure.. well most of the time.
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That's dope.
I think for me the issue isn't others not being to tell us apart. While I think most Asians can identify some Asians based on appearance, name, etc, it's not always that easy. I mean, when I walk into a Korean restaurant, I get greeted in English (no #1 indicator they don't think you're Korean) but when I'm in Seafood City for example, someone random will tell me how much they love k-drama
The issue is that many non-Asians just don't think there is any difference, resulting in generalizations, stereotyping, basically dismissing the importance Asians put on our respective heritage and histories.
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In Southern California, there are far more Mexicans than other Hispanics. You have Salvadoreans in LA but theyre still outnumbered by Mexicans. So I think a lot of it has to do with that too.
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Koreans are easiest to tell for me.
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From my experience.. its mainly down south where they think all asians are chinese.
Have a coworker whos in his early 40 move up here (seattle) a few years ago from SC and he legit didnt know there where other asian ethnicities besides chinese. Straight told me back home he called all asians Chinese.
Ironically his current gf now is thai.
@sckid... thoughts?
I think it's just an individual thing
People obviously know there are other Asian ethnicities besides Chinese but Chinese means asian u know what I'm sayin.
It's just one of those things.
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Genuinely curious, how? I mean what are some characteristics that stand out?
I don't mean the plastic surgery ig look for women, but just regular people?
To me personally Chinese, Korean, Tawainese, Japanese, we all look different, with very distinct traits. So do SE Asians.
For awhile Mongolians dominated the K-town babysitting and valet parking scene.
Now that was confusing asf.....
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I can usually tell from the eyes
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idk how to explain it
but one of the things, for some guys sometimes its hair, girls it's style of makeup
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Yeah, I can distinguish our people based on their eyes too
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I can’t tell anyone apart. Sometimes I can’t even tell who’s Filipino. Some look Chinese, Spanish, Mexican, or another dark Asian.
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Yeah, I'm calling BS on all y'all that say you can reliably tell Asians apart
http://alllooksame.com/app/quiz.php?tid=1
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I can usually tell who's filipino
The rest not so much.
Some people from Guam look Filipino
The rest not so much.
Some people from Guam look Filipino
