well here is my storie ^^ When i was in japan they thought i was japanese och korean, an old ladie refused to belive that i am a Chinese !! Made a friend their that spoke english and a bit japanese so she told me that ^^ Tought that was pretty fun. When i am in sweden i was mistaken for an eskimo once :S that was not as fun DAMN CAPTIAN was in army!! And i am a chinese/vietnamese!!
lol yea cause i speak cantonese, mandarin, and japanese; usually when someone sees me speaking japanese they automatically assume me to be japanese but i am chinese!
yes when my boyfriend first met me he thought i was japanese..he said it was because of my body parts
people used to call me Chinese guy, but sometimes they also call me a Japanese or Korean guy, never understood that. but they normally ask me which nationality I have got, before they yell at me
I'm not chinese, I'm actually japanese haha but people always think i'm chinese for some reason. well at least they do until they hear that my name is takashi haha.
yes..and it's really often.. I'm a Chinese but many people taught that I'm a Japanese..but no wonder I can speak Japanese more fluent than Chinese when I'm in Japanese restaurant., on the beach., or any places that many foreign people come
Lol... Yes! I have been mistaken to be Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, and so on before.... It's quite awkward at first when they come up to you and speak some language you totally dont understand...
Yes, it happens all the time for me when I am out in our Korean town. Even some times, I get mistaken as Korean. I think it's because of my complexion, but anyways, it's still sort of cool to be mistaken!! ^^
rarely but it has happened.. seems like only westerners mistaken different types of asian ethnicities whereas i can tell a japanese person apart from a korean person anyday however, i do have trouble telling a polish guy from a german or some other "eastern" ethnicity
Never in UK, not many Japanese (if any) around - maybe in big cities, but I grew up in a small town. Though my friend and I were mistaken as Japanese in Nairobi - more in hope than actually thinking we were Japanese because the Japanese tourists are very generous with their money, and the Kenyans would crowd around or follow any Japanese lookalike to get some business.
not much, but sometimes because i have quite fair skin compared to many chinese. and i don't have the figure or style of a japanese girl, as much i would kill for one. my mother has been mistaken for korean though.
