Why do some people assume Asians are always Chinese?
925691
You see, Americans are so stupid that thy cant discern between Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Phillipinos, etc.  In the constant quest to be politiacally correct people decided to call them all ASIAN.  Indian people are from Asia,  Americans don't refer to them as Asian.  To be labeled as ASIAN by americans, it does not matter where you are from geographically, Asia or not.  You simply have to have "slanty eyes".\n\nIt's like being African American.  People assume that if you are black, hey, you are from Africa.  \n\nIt's all about america trying to be P.C. and in turn being more racist and stereotypical.  Pathetic.
4942
I'd say it has a lot to do with culture. Asian parents expect their daughters not to marry out of race, so they don't want to get even remotely involved just in case. There's probably a bit of prejudice in it too.
1180087
Hello,\n\nThat is so cool, do you speak both? if you do that's great anyway you are both if you are in western they will regard you as asian. \n\nto keep it short and simple, you are Chinese-Malaysian, because you are desent from Chinese so that comes first\n\nTake care
1005051
that is an ignorant statement. not all japanese people share the same traits.
1122536
don't Caucasians, African Americans, Hispanics or maybe Persians hang out together? And Actually I think you have poor observation skills (if you have any at all). The truth is Asians are the ones you will notice all over hanging out  with different kinds of people. Go out there, think about it and observe harder.
574755
I am an Asian.\nFirstly - Asians as a class dont think they are smart.\n\nSecondly - They think that there is a lot of things that they dont know.\n\nThirdly - They work (like all others) to achieving that knowledge without any great expectation since many Asians are not as wealthy their counterparts from some other continents and consequently have less desire for wealth.\n\nFourthly - They know that the people of other continents have become wealthy by dint of hard labour and dedication.\n\nFifthly - They try to emulate the performance of the people from other continents.\n\nSixthly - This gives them something to aspire to which makes them work harder than those who are already at the pinnacle \n\nSeventhly - Moral - We should never allow ourselves to fall into the morass of discrimination due to Religion, Race, Caste, Creed, Regionalism etc because (Quoting a phrase from Shakespeare) - "these dull the edge of husbandry".\nSo if anyone works when it is time to work and has a gala time when it is time to have a gala time will always remain SMART. And when there is no work during work time they must work towards acquiring knowledge of things they do not know about - this gives them the edge!
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>>>> Why do chinese people have chinky eyes?\n\nAcceptable common terms are slanted, slit or (preferably) Mongoloid. Chinky is just plain offensive.\n\nAnyway Chinese people have slit eyes because the skin beneath the eyelid fold  folds upwards over the eye to some degree, producing a partial third eyelid know as an epicanthic fold.\n\nWhy do Chinese people have an epicanthic fold? Because humans evolved with an epicanthic fold. That particular feature isn't restricted to the Chinese, it is found amongst all East Asians and Native Americans and perhaps most surprisingly is also normal in the Khoi-San peoples of Africa. It is assumed that the first humans had the same basic eye shape found today in Chinese and San. Other human populations have since mutated in such a way that the epicanthic fold has been lost while Asians and San retain the ancestral condition.\n\n>>>>Why are there white people and black people?\n\nThere aren't. There are only two major skin types in this world: brown and not-brown.\n\nThe ancestral skin colour is assumed to be the brown colouration seen mostly amongst the Khoi-San and some South-East Asian populations but also fairly common amongst North-Western Europeans.\n\nThe brown skin type maintains the colour producing units of the skin in discrete clusters. The non-brown skin types have those colour producing units spread throughout the skin evenly.\n\nBlack and white skin are both largely the same, and both are of the non-brown type. the only difference is how much melanin the skin produces. There is no point at which you can say that a skin type stops being brown and becomes white as there is with the difference between brown and non-brown skin colours.\n\n\nThe reason some people have darker skin is because the skin has produced more melanin. People at the equator tend to have darker skin than people living further north or south, but it's a very poor relationship.\n\n\nThose people telling you that black skin relates to life in warm climates obviously aren't thinking. Brazilian Indians live in warm climates but they don't have black skin, and Tasmanian Aborigines live in cold climates and they do have black skin.  Skin colour has very little to do with climate and a lot to do with ancestry.
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Most Asian are born like that and not only that, their family is the one who put them on that path. I'm an girl n i'm Asian, I bend my parents rules, I dont care much about electronic, as long as i kno how to read electronic instructions, that's all it matter. They just born out natural smart n more into computer shit. I also have Asian friends who are major in engineer, n they look soo crappy bc of all the staring on the computer all days. Well, all i have to say is, yea, Asian are weird.
112451
The first Asian immigrants in California are Chinese.\nThese people were actually brought by the Americans to engage in cheap labor.
264006
Americans lie,cheat,steal anything goes, They don't trust asians in general as they don,t trust others races such as the indiguos "American Indian" they were treated by European decendant americans worse than black slaves! Yeah I know about cooly labor and slaving out the irish in the mid 1800s! Do you think you can find any other race then asian working for Asian employer say in Chinatown in San Francisco? Yet there are state and federal laws against discrimination, and yes it works against them cause americans won,t hire them! What about the one where China discovered America first, i have known one american indian family that had slanted eye features! The truth!A family that went by the last name of Blazedel spelling could be wrong!
171388
It's a culture thing. It is also perhaps due to the fact that you weren't really raised in China to begin with. Perhaps if you visit China,you'd understand better :)
124862
Uh, a girl whose parents aren't strict traditionalists. So usually girls whose parents are second generation Americans rather than people who emigrated to America.\n\nA lot of my asian friends whose parents came from another country in asia want their daughters to date/marry within their cultural heritage.\n\nSome parents will still be open even if they just came to the US, anyway, but out of the people I know that's the minority.\n\nIronically, the parents seem to be slightly less concerned if their sons date non-asians...
879902
I'd say,"wot the hell you talkin about"? Sorry, a model of what? Asian Americans are just Americans with an ethnic background.Pacific Island Americans the same.Same as here in Australia we are all from an ethnic background,unless you have indigenous blood.We may not like it but its reality.
137295
Just like an asian . . . cheap bastards . . . lol.\n\nIt's okay . . . I am asian too . . . born in the Philippines.
1083975
I don't think there is a particular nationality who prefer's Asians. I think it is a matter of who is attracted to whom, not what color their skin is. And if others don't agree, then they are just bigoted idiots. Just be yourself, and don't worry about race, or ethinicity. \n\nI am a woman, and I am attracted to and would date any nationality.
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I find that the Chinese can be the most reflective nationality...The Japanese are the most careful when it comes to preservation and balance...The Koreans have the best language in the world, bar none...The Vietnamese have a pride and self-respect that is unmatched...The Filipinos have a strength that most others in their position would scarcely uphold... Hard to choose. Nice question. :)
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Most Japanese don't consider themselves Asian.  I studied in Japan for a year, and once I told one of my classmates that I was enjoying visiting Asia. She looked at me strange and said "Here is Asia?" (but in Japanese). \nAlso, I went to a contemporary Chinese art exhibit a few months ago and was reading a description of one of the works of art and it said that many Chinese people view, at least politically, Japan as more of a Western country than an Asian country.\nI'm hesitant to call it a superiority complex, but I do believe that Japan has a tendency to distance itself from the rest of Asia. Also, I think Japanese people would claim that they have a higher standard of living than (other) Asian countries. Economically speaking, this is true with perhaps South Korea being the only potential rival to this statement. They have a very high per capita income and an extremely low rate of poverty.