I find that most non-asian people cant really distinguish between us oriental asians, whereas most asians can So if they see you, your either chinese or japanese (most like jap since they use to all the brands and shizzle)
People have thought that i'm japanese before!!! ergh. and some thought i was korean... and someone even once said that I looked like I was cambodian. :x but honestly, i look chinese, I think i do anyway...
its kinda hard for them to see the diffrence... i can easy see if someone if 50%chinese or japanese.. but sometimes its even hard for chinese people to see if someone is from vietnam or from china i only see people asking if im chinese yes or not.. never asked if im japanese before
yah of course! i've been asked if i was a japanese, then i said no. then they asked korean, i'm like no. then they're like ....... taiwanese? lmao :( i look anything but chinese according to them
lmao ..i got asked if i was japanese a few times.. because of my last name i think ... im just like do i look jap? O_O
Only happened to me when I was in Japan but I was there with my white friend and guess they assumed I was the Japanese friend showing the white girl around. But the Japanese always think every Asian looking person in their country is Japanese.
Yes, very easy to be mistaken as Japanese when I am well dressed, well mannered, clean, well combed hair, washed hair that is non greasy, eat sashimi, speak quietly and say thank you (arigato) and please all the time.
I am not that surprised, I had been mistaken to be a Japanese several times, not only by Whites, but also by other fellow Chineses AND Japaneses! They tried to talk in Japanese with me =_=b I am neither petite nor cute nor heavily made-up, which part of my look Japanese? But heck, I never get annoyed by those idiots (since they are, idiots).
It happens to me alot. Especially when I go into the restaurants with Japanese or Korean waiters. They always speak to me in their dialect but I can answer them haha so they give me the special seat. HOORAY!
people say i look japanese, but i can't tell wtf the difference is. -_- (i'm chinese) there was this one korean waiter in this japanese restaurant and i thought she was japanese but she was korean so yeah i fail
i get that quite alot as well, im either mistaken as japanese or korean but funny enough not chinese - hmm.....i don't know why, what makes it worse is that some of my friends think i do look japanese or korean =(
yeah i always get that but chinese people seem to think i am half white but then the whites start asking if ur chinese and if ur from hong kong then what are u...is that down to pure ignorance or is it really that hard to understand?
o.o i don't think that that ever happened to me....actually...-_-" nvr mind i think it has but i was asked if i was viet not japanese...
