Race

[VforVendetta]

Am I the only one that doesnt care about being lumped together? I am human of the white skinned variety, big whoopdeedoop.

[Jstar1]

"you're all the same anyway" is what I was referring to. I am aware Asians have different ethnicities - Vietnamese, Korean, Thai, Japanese, etc. But you're talking about the same thing. Lumping all of them together as "white" instead of German, Polish, Norwegian, etc. Or did I misinterpret your post?

"Chinese" is a certain ethnicity. "White" is not. We lump caucasians together as "white", not as a certain ethnicity like "british". Likewise, we should lump people as "asians", not a certain ethnicity like "chinese". The problem is that a lot of westerners just blow off all asians as "oh they are all chinese, same thing who cares". There is a lot more national pride among east asians than westerners. That is why when koreans, japanese, vietnamese, singaporeans get lumped together as "chinese", they find it offensive and rude.

So..if you want to know where an asian is from, it isn't such a great idea to go like "so what are you? chinese?". Even worse is assuming they are chinese when you first meet them. A better question would something general like "which country are you from?". Even better would be to check their last name - hard to mess up if you do that.

[Pinoy_Archer]

Pinoy -> Philippines -> Southeast Asia

[_Equal_]

"you're all the same anyway" is what I was referring to. I am aware Asians have different ethnicities - Vietnamese, Korean, Thai, Japanese, etc. But you're talking about the same thing. Lumping all of them together as "white" instead of German, Polish, Norwegian, etc. Or did I misinterpret your post?

"Chinese" is a certain ethnicity. "White" is not. We lump caucasians together as "white", not as a certain ethnicity like "british". Likewise, we should lump people as "asians", not a certain ethnicity like "chinese". The problem is that a lot of westerners just blow off all asians as "oh they are all chinese, same thing who cares". There is a lot more national pride among east asians than westerners. That is why when koreans, japanese, vietnamese, singaporeans get lumped together as "chinese", they find it offensive and rude.

So..if you want to know where an asian is from, it isn't such a great idea to go like "so what are you? chinese?". Even worse is assuming they are chinese when you first meet them. A better question would something general like "which country are you from?". Even better would be to check their last name - hard to mess up if you do that.

Well, I see your point, and know exactly what you mean. Luckily I don't look "Indian" at all.

There are a lot of Asians around here, but nah, I don't go around thinking they're all Chinese or Vietnamese or whatever.

[Shadow]

@Jstar
I see no-one here lumping the nationalities mentioned as Chinese. I fail to see how your "Don't-call-me-Chinese" rant relates to anything here.

[Doron]

@Jstar
I see no-one here lumping the nationalities mentioned as Chinese. I fail to see how your "Don't-call-me-Chinese" rant relates to anything here.

It's not just online. People OUTSIDE THE INTERWEBS, you know, IN REAL LIFE do it all the time.

I love Korean Music. Then when people I know see me watching a Kpop MV, they go like: Oh, you and your Chinese Music, just one of thousands of examples I could give.

Then to think those same people go hot over Jacob from Twilight and say stuff like: OMG I LOVE HIM, HE'S INDO RIGHT? BLABLABLA oh yeah, then they suddenly can tell what blood he has? damn them.

[Shadow]

It's not just online. People OUTSIDE THE INTERWEBS, you know, IN REAL LIFE do it all the time.

Let me rephrase what I said so you can understand. What does this thread have to do with it? Jstar just brought up a random pet peeve and ranted about it.

Concerning pet peeves, I really dislike how I'm not allowed to file a correction request to a certain bureau, because the document in question is a statement and not a conclusive verdict.


Besides, I don't hear people lumping Asians as Chinese here, even though there's hardly any people of Asian origin where I live.

[Doron]

It's not like I see an Asian every day, but hey.

People rant. Nothing to do about it. Ranting is just fun. so why not?

Let them rant... People do it all the time

[wootpops]

uh im not vietnamese..
asians in general do not like it when non-asians call them collectively as "chinese" or say stupid shit like "oh your all the same anyway". Keep that in mind if you want to make friends with asians or want an asian girlfriend.

i say that to my girlfriend. no big deal. oh wait maybe its cause she is chinese? or something like that. They are all the same.

[NuclearSilo]

uh im not vietnamese..
asians in general do not like it when non-asians call them collectively as "chinese" or say stupid shit like "oh your all the same anyway". Keep that in mind if you want to make friends with asians or want an asian girlfriend.

i say that to my girlfriend. no big deal. oh wait maybe its cause she is chinese? or something like that. They are all the same.

What same?

[CrimsonNuker]

When people call me ask me what asian I am, I tell them i'm Korean
I'm chinese/viet.

[Jstar1]

It's not just online. People OUTSIDE THE INTERWEBS, you know, IN REAL LIFE do it all the time.

Let me rephrase what I said so you can understand. What does this thread have to do with it? Jstar just brought up a random pet peeve and ranted about it.

I happened to rant about it because this is an ethnicity thread. And it isn't a pet peeve, most asians will find it offensive, even if you think they don't. How much they are offended depends on how much of a connection they have with their ancestral country. But really..I'm writing all this in your guys' favor. Non-asians make themselves look really dumb and ignorant when they say stuff like "chinese, japanese, same thing who cares", especially because it just makes you look like you live in the 19th century and don't know anything about foreign cultures. And its disrespectful because your basically saying certain countries don't matter/don't exist. Its the same thing as saying france is the same as the UK simply because people in both countries are white.

Besides, I don't hear people lumping Asians as Chinese here, even though there's hardly any people of Asian origin where I live.

When people call me ask me what asian I am, I tell them i'm Korean
I'm chinese/viet.

why would you say that? I don't think I've ever met an asian who lied about his ethnicity.

[Doron]

hi jessica

you know, I really don't think Jessica and Krystal look that much alike.. Krystal is hotter...

[link2113]

Idk, im mixed, so i dont know what to put

[Tasdik]

I'M AMERICAN DANG IT!. Caucasoid...-_-

[Shadow]

Besides, I don't hear people lumping Asians as Chinese here, even though there's hardly any people of Asian origin where I live.

I wonder what you tried to say with just bolding and quoting this... Care to explain?

[CrimsonNuker]

When people ask me what asian I am, I tell them i'm Korean
I'm chinese/viet.

why would you say that? I don't think I've ever met an asian who lied about his ethnicity.

Cause I look nothing like a Korean

[_Equal_]

Keep in mind a lot of Americans haven't really lived among Asians, so the slight differences between a Korean or a Chinese wouldn't be obvious. I'm sure if they lived in a foreign country they'd pick it up.

I'm going to assume it's similar to an Asian or something living amongst a bunch of Norwegians or Germans or something, they couldn't pick out the subtle differences between a German or a Norwegian :p

[Doron]

Could you pick out where they're from if you would line up British, French, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, American, and or any other teenagers that are White from one another?

try it, it's fun. differences are very subtle, especially if they won't open their yap and start talking their own language. (or all try English, accents are so easy ;P )

[Jstar1]

Besides, I don't hear people lumping Asians as Chinese here, even though there's hardly any people of Asian origin where I live.

I wonder what you tried to say with just bolding and quoting this... Care to explain?

because its funny how your post is so obvious. If theres hardly any asian people theres obvious hardly any reason for people to lump asians as chinese or talk about asians at all.

I'm going to assume it's similar to an Asian or something living amongst a bunch of Norwegians or Germans or something, they couldn't pick out the subtle differences between a German or a Norwegian :p

Can europeans really tell the difference between themselves? That would be interesting because I can usually tell what asian country someone is from looking at their face. Must be a cultural thing for sure.

[Shadow]

because its funny how your post is so obvious. If theres hardly any asian people theres obvious hardly any reason for people to lump asians as chinese or talk about asians at all.

Even though there's hardly any Asians living here, we get visitors and tourists from Asia. This week I met a group from South Korea who performed their traditional dances, and not too long ago, a group of Japanese, to mention some. I've never heard anyone generalizing them as Chinese.
Perhaps the reason is civilization rather than seclusion.

[Barotix]

West African: Nigerian.

[Reise]

What about the dudes from northeast Europe or Russia?

They aren't English, and I don't see any other categorization for them under "caucasoid".

This grouping is very odd.

[Doron]

I'm going to assume it's similar to an Asian or something living amongst a bunch of Norwegians or Germans or something, they couldn't pick out the subtle differences between a German or a Norwegian :p

Can europeans really tell the difference between themselves? That would be interesting because I can usually tell what asian country someone is from looking at their face. Must be a cultural thing for sure.

Well, Brits have something that distinguish them, and the Eastern euro's nose quite stands out (to me at least) Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech and others are easily spotted by their noses IMO.

[TheDrop]

im south asian, not a fckin caucasoid.
why the hell is there north east asian and south east asian while whites, middle eastern and south asians are lumped together into one group when all 3 of them look very different?

[NuclearSilo]

chinese dominate the world

[Shadow]

NS trolls the world.

[XemnasXD]

i doubt we have that many native americans on this forum...i thin people don't read...

[MarshMallow]

I am human of the white skinned variety, big whoopdeedoop.

That does sounds fishy.

[Mirosuke]

hi jessica

you know, I really don't think Jessica and Krystal look that much alike.. Krystal is hotter...

Spoiler!

Pardon my ignorance but is Jessica on that pic? Well, i dunno.
If it is, well i liked her sort of blonde.

i am latin/asian lol