5th August 2004, 1:11 PM
Quote:I meant mostly Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans. And I was making the comment based on a article I read (NY Times Online) several months back about, I believe, Vietnamese immigrants in Japan who had been there for many years, were virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the Japanese population, but were not exactly being accepted as Japanese... Japan is not accepting of immigrants. That's a fact.
I'm also talking about Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans. They do not look identical to each other. And I wouldn't believe everything I read in NY Times if I were you. This is nothing unique about Japan, just about any place you go to that's 95% or more of one particular race, religion, or nationality will show discrimination against foreginors. I'm part Croatian but I still look and sound very American, so while I lived in Croatia a lot of people hated me soley for that reason.
Quote:Oh, and I'm sure that some of them look similar and others different... maybe in some cases it's like what you said with Italians and French, but I'd think that in some cases it'd be more like Swedes and Danes...
No, it's definitely like French and Italians. I can usually tell if someone's from China, Japan, or Korea pretty quickly, though I'm not right 100% of the time. I'm right as often as I am with French and Italians, Croatians and Austrians, etc. That's a very ignorant thing to say, ABF. I'd expect some other people here to say such a thing, but not you.