Can you recognize where she/he's from when you see an Asian.
Probabbly, most westners woudln't guess where a guy's from correctly when they see an asian in the street, and that's what I heard. But interestingly, it's not very difficult thing too do for us. Before that I need to say in this case I'm talking about Korean, Japanese and Chinese among Asian. Because most people can at leasst find that the person is from one of them.
So, if Koreans walk in a street of another country, We're easasily asked if we're from China or Japan. (unfortunately, we're not worldwidely well recognized compared to jappanese or chinese and a lot of people hate to be recognized wrongly) And also some of them even say "hi" in both languages(Japanese and Chinese). Cause they have no idea where the hell we're from. It's funny because many of them are merchandise, and they're eagar to make some impression by saying hello in their languages. I was lucky enough to say some Japanese, so I replied in Japanese when someone had said "konnichiwa". But next time If I go the place again where they said "hi" to me in both languages, I wish I could reply in both languages to make them confuzzled.
Anyway, as I said before we can easily recognize if the person is Koren, Japanese or Chinese even before they open their mouth and speak their languages. and when they start to speak in their languages we confirm what we thought and feel happy. I don't know exactly how we could tell it, but I think it's more like a feeling than a fact or someting else which makes us conviinced. But I gotta say our appereance is different (mostly hair,clothing style or eyes) and the way of we act is different and they make us easy to tell the difference.
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I worked for many years for a Japanese company in Chile. That is why I can easily tell if someone is Chinese or Japanese, before they open their mouth, although there are very few of them in my country. In your case, can you distinguish easily among southamericans?
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I can only know where they're from after listening to them :-) the language difference is very clear^^ but my brother can recognize korean, japanese and chinese people by looking at them :D he says they have different facial features, which I'm sure it must be truth :-)
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I think Asian countries have been a lot more closed off from the world and so, developed rather distinct cultures from their neighbours. I know that Japan closed itself off from the world for quite a long time. Korea did the same?
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yes i agree with that europeans are a lot more mixed than we are. I guess it's because we (asian especially korean, chinese and japnsese) have been using different languages and in different cultures which made us lot different from one another compapred to europeans.
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I can usually tell the difference between Koreans and Chinese. I think the major thing that separates Chinese and Koreans is mannerisms. Oh and I think clothing is a give-away too. Although there's a lot of Korean influence through T.V. shows and pop groups, Chinese people still have a different look about them in terms of style.
When it comes to guessing where Westerners are from.. I think it's pretty much impossible (assuming that we're only judging by outward appearance). My mum's Australian and my dad's South African.. So my heritage is English, Dutch and my mum seems to think there's a little bit of French mixed in somewhere. European decsedents are too mixed to tell apart. Honestly, if you put a person from every Western country in front of me in a line.. I wouldn't be able to tell who was Australian and who wasn't.
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