Have you ever been mistaken as Japanese instead of Chinese?

im chinese and i was mistaken as a viet one time because the guy was speaking viet to me and i had no clue what he was staying. so i was like huh?

 

Yes, I've been called Jap, Korean, Mexican, Aboriginal?!!! White people can be so ignorant. But Asians can be ignorant too. Being an Asian, I thought I knew how to differentiate between Japanese, Chinese and Korean. And my strike rate has been historically pretty good. So there was this chick at Uni who I thought was Japanese. Her name was Masuma and she had highlights in her hair. I also saw her brother and he looked Jap too. I got to know her pretty well and I kept thinking she was Jap all that time, just heaps Westernized, no accent, can't speak Jap, not interested in ANIME?!!! But one day I saw her speaking with a woman wearing a religious head scarfe. I asked her who the woman was and she said, "My mum". So I thought, oh so her mum's a Japanese Muslim. Then my brain started to tick.
"You're not Japanese, aren't you?" I asked her.
"No," she replied. "When did I ever say I was Japanese?"
"So where are you from?"
"Guess."
"Afghanistan?" I said jokingly.
"Yes. We're from Afghanistan. You're the first person to get it at one go." I thought she was pulling my leg. But she was from Afghanistan. Her name wasn't Masuma but Masooma and her hair wasn't highlighted but natural. I thought it was pretty cool that some Afghans can look Jap. Just goes to show that Asians, well this Asian anyway, can be just as ignorant on this matter.

 

lol thats hilarious, i can't believe some ppl thought u were mexican, are u rele dark then?

 

well it depends which country you are in. If you were on holidays in thailand then the locals would think you are thai and start talking to you in thai. If you are in japan it's the same. In HK, they think you are a local.

 

i get told that i look half something, something they cant point their finger on. they can tell that im chink (which i am fully actually) but with something else. =p

i myself think i look full chink. even reletives think i have abit of white appearence in me =p

 

Why are so many peepz asking me if i'm a japanese?!?! :S And also some japanese peepz think that i'm a japanse... :S WEIRD!!!

 

its just the same as us thinking all white people are them same or all brown people are indians and all black people are from africa

 

I find that most non-asian people cant really distinguish between us oriental asians, whereas most asians can

 

Nope, the opposite would happen where I live haha.

 

I have and i hated it. they said because of how i looked. only like two people were like "are you chinese?" well maybe because i'm in a school where there's full of koreans/Japanese who knows :/

 

More the other way around.

 

yep, but only by non-asians

 

i'm 100% chinese
and i've been gotten mistaken as japanese and vietmanese.
non-asians just sees us asians as all the same. ><

 

i get misunderstood as half SOMETHING and chinese >.>

 

alot of people are ignorant in this world because they dont have education or just dont have the interest in learning.

 

i think this happen very frequently u know, like people mistake me for look like korean, and japanese, also cambodian if i got tan reall dark haha

 

yes it happened to me, a Chinese girl asked if i was Japaneses.

i said no and her eyes went O_O

 

i always been recongnised as chinese XDD
but recently because i grew my hair longer then usual and had red highlights added, people keep asking me if im japanese =.=" i suppose its a compliment cos i love all things japanese but me 100% chinese

 

cuz ppl think all asian ppl are of the same ethnicity... if u live in a city that has more chinese than japanese they woudl think ur chinse if u were japanese...