Do all Asians look the same to you?

Australia
November 6, 2010 9:44pm CST
My friend constantly confuses Chinese with Japanese, etc. I asked her why and she said it's because she thinks all Asians look the same. I don't think they do. Do all Asians look the same to you?
8 responses
@natnickeep (2336)
• United States
7 Nov 10
Those people just are not around a lot of Asians and are not well informed. And it isn't just Asians that this has been said about either.
• Australia
7 Nov 10
Agreed. There are far too many stereotypes these days, don't you think?
• United States
7 Nov 10
I'm Asian and I don't think they all look like, it's just a stereotype that they make.
• Australia
7 Nov 10
I think so too. There are far too many ignorant people in the world these days that immediately make these kinds of assumptions and stereotypes.
• Philippines
11 Dec 10
I think if you're not exposed to Asians, you'll have a hard time identifying who's who. Before I couldn't see the difference between Koreans and Japanese/Chinese. Now, I can identify them because I watch korean drama series.
@lady1993 (27225)
• Philippines
2 Dec 10
Of course not..When people think of Asians they always forget us(Filipinos) But sometimes I also confuse Koreans with Japanese. They do have similarities, but when they talk, that's when I distinguish them..
• Thailand
11 Dec 10
I am an Asian. Well, I think there are some people in Asian which we can't realize where is he from if we don't ask him. There are some country where you can't make a mistake about that: Vietnamese, ThaiLand, Laos, China, Japanese, Korea. All of these nations people has black hair, yellow skin and pretty handsome.
@xkenzo (56)
• Singapore
15 Dec 10
I'm a Chinese and i often got mistaken as Japanese or Korean. but i cant really blame them, i myself also find people of other races look the same too XP
@Angelwriter (1954)
• United States
7 Nov 10
They don't all look alike to me. If I saw two Asians that didn't actually share a resemblance, I'd be able to tell them apart. Now, being able to tell which country in Asia they came from just by looking at them? That I couldn't do. I can't look at an Asian and tell if they're Chinese or Japanese or whatever unless they told me.
• United States
7 Nov 10
I think it depends on how much time you spend with a particular race. I've had Asian people tell me that all white people look the same. And the same can be true for any race. I, unfortunately, had the same problem at one point with anyone hispanic, but now the concept seems ridiculous to me because I can tell them apart easily.