Have you ever been mistaken as Japanese instead of Chinese?

lol this sometimes happens to me and they always assume your from china at first glance

 

japanese is a default for me, it's hard for people to tell when you don't have any conspicuous facial features of either nationality

 

I have been mistaken for being japanese a few times. I guess its just hard to tell your ethnicity at first glance.

 

ive had Viet and Cambodian lots cos im very tanned HK =)

 

Skin Color has nothing to do with a ethnic appearance


FYI Viets skin color vary from light to medium (rosy and peachy) to dark skin

Facial Features and Bone structure such as cheek bone, nose bridge, eyes and lips are more important when I look at people

btw All Chinese Iv met have various looks

 

Most often my "other half" and me are mistaken for Koreans. Especially her. She's Chinese but she looks VERY VERY Korean.

 

yeah i agree with dim sum, co-sign!

 

At the place I work, we're all the same.

 

ya once when i go to japan ppl used to think tht im japanese n speak to me in japanese which im not really undertstand all of the language
make me embrassed

 

i am often mistaken as japenese and once even filipino is it so hard to tell the difference

 

I've been mistaken by Japanese people as being Japanese and Korean people as being Korean...LOL!

 

Lol. People think I'm a Korean. I'm like. wellll.. I'm Chinese XD. When i ask my friends if i look like a Japanese. They say only my hair does. XDD

 

Westerners are sooo ignorant they dont know the difference between Jap, Chinese, korean, viet... they always say "same difference"

 

I've been mistaken for all forms of oriental

Japanese
Korean
Chinese (which I am)
Malaysian

Oddly enough, no one seems to know "Vietnam" in my area.

 

I can try to use stereotypes to differentiate people... to me it works mostly for asians. Its like the same thing with hispanics. I know theres a difference between a Cuban and Mexican...but I can't see the difference.

 

no lol but mistaken being korean lol

 

I've been mistaken for Japanese, Viet, Korean, Filipino, Malaysian, Samoan, Thai, Hawaiian; in China around the Guang Zhou area, I've been taken for a northerner (because I'm tall I guess), and in New York, I've been taken for, get this:... Italian. LOL... My guess is, people see what they want to believe.

Ralph

 

Japaneses, Korean, Vietnamese, Philippine
i am tanned

 

Some people are oblivious to the fact that Asian is not really a race, but an umbrella term used to describe a whole clump of ethnicities. -_-. I wouldn't take it personally though. It also depends on where in the world you are, cause people in different countries have different views of what an Asian person is. If you go to United Kingdom and tell them you're Asian, they would assume that you are Indian.

 

I'm not sure I follow, you could say the same above Whites and Blacks. Phylogenetically speaking, there are only three races of humans; Mongoloid, Caucasoid, and Negroid. So Asian (aka Mongoloid) IS really considered a race. Many people mistakenly consider and assign their cultural heritage, nationality, or ethnicity to that category.

Ralph