Asian question...

[leinadM]

I?ve always wondered this ? can, for example, someone from China recognize someone from Japan (and vise versa), and the same for Vietnam, Korea, etc, just by looking at them? Strange question, I know. I?ve always heard they can?t, but I don?t know if that?s true or not, so that?s why I?m asking

 

[isekii]

yes we can tell them apart.

 

[PHiuR]

yes, somewhat... i would say 75-90% possible...(my parents can, pretty easily)

there are those little flukes tho which are hard to tell..heh

 

[777php]

most of the time...each has distinguishing features which make it easier to tell them apart.

 

[virtuamike]

I'm not as good as my parents, I'm prob around 75%.

 

[RagingBITCH]

Just distinguishing features

 

[EvilYoda]

After you've been around a lot of APAs, especially when you know who they are and what background they are, it gets easier and easier to determine. Although there are always some people like me, who are Chinese but look very much like a Korean Evens Koreans think I'm Korean at times ^_^

 

[BaboonGuy]

Say you can? Prove it!

 

[PoPPeR]

yes, I can usually tell fairly easy what they are. It helps a lot that most of the ones around here dress to the stereotype for that certain race.

Put some whitewashed abercrombie azn's next to each other though with similar haircuts and it gets a little tougher

 

[rh71]

I can tell probably about 75% of the time.

 

[QueHuong]

Originally posted by: BaboonGuy
Say you can? Prove it!

I think that site purposely chose misleading pictures. I can often tell the race of another Asian with 50%+ accuracy but my scores were crappy for that site.

 

[dc]

usually. personally, i've had several korean girls tell me i looked korean, i'm chinese. heh.

 

[kami333]

Usually. Plus there are other clues other than just looks, such as accent, clothes, mannerisms, etc, which though they aren't always accurate can serve as clues.

 

[HiTek21]

Originally posted by: BaboonGuy
Say you can? Prove it!

I got an 11 out of 18

 

[MustangSVT]

yep. I would say you can get it upto 95% accurate if you know little about each culture and is patient

each country has distinctive fashion styles and what's hot at the time.

 

[FrustratedUser]

I can not see the difference. Looks the same to me.

 

[thirdlegstump]

Yea I'm about 80-90% accurate but that site is very misleading as mentioned. I got 7 out of 7.

 

[sillymofo]

I refuse to take that test, since Asians comprise of more than THREE fcuking country... (well, I click on the first five pix and give quit)

 

[Anghang]

yes.

 

[eliteorange]

main problem is that theres 2 billion chinese and theres so many different ethnic tribes that all look different...

 

[0roo0roo]

in a way, yes. there some stereotypes one can go by...that sorta work in general. kinda like how you can tell conan is irish. but kinda iffier. as with all stereotypes 50% chance of being wrong

what i donnt get is how people can't tell asian languages apart. pretty damn obvious, same way most european languages are pretty obviously different. i guess some people grow up sheltered.

 

[krunchykrome]

I'm not asian and I can do that.

 

[Imdmn04]

Well chinese people are the hardest to tell, because the northeasternpart of chinese people could potentially look like japanese, and the southern chinese might look like vietnamese.

 

[Aquaman]

11/18

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[QueHuong]

Can white people tell other white people apart? irish from german, french from english, etc - I wouldn't include americans because they're a mutt of everything.