Have you ever been mistaken as Japanese instead of Chinese?

Japanese and Korean

 

I got a question: if people mistake you for Japanese, would you get offended?

I currently live in the UK, and I've many times been mistaken as Japanese because people think I genuinely look like Japanese, even my friends and classmates think so. But when I correct them, esp. to complete strangers, they sometimes get quite apologetic, as if they'd just insulted me, like a white guy calling a black guy nigger.

 

japanese people always mistake my wife as japanese, even though she is 100% chinese

 

I wouldn't mind being called Japanese than Chinese.

Japanese people are more polite in more ways than Chinese

 

never, i get mistaken for being black :(

 

eh.. sometimes mistaken as korean/japanese

 

chinese is never their first guess...people tend to think im everything else BUT chinese...especially japanese, korean, and filipina.

 

im a chinese american living in japan. obviously, i get mistaken all the time! it pisses me off!! i dont even look japanese, i look 100% chinese!

 

Never been mistaken by ppl for being japanese, korean and viet.
I hk Students talk to me in canto, but I canto is very limited.

 

whenever people ask its always chinese for me. like Chinese is the only thing they no really.

 

all the time.. they think im filipina