supermidget wrote:

I also heard (maybe on jdorama lol) you can sometimes tell by the shoes only.

Nike ad: "It's the shoes...."

sashimi wrote:

Just wondering, can people tell apart the Chinese and Japanese? Because some Chinese really look like the Japanese and vice versa. Besides, both have the same colour skin, hair and eyes! ^^

you might be thinking about this thread:
Your Ability to Tell Asian People Apart
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supermidget wrote:

I asked the (japanese) homestay family i'm in, some days ago... they all replied, 'yes we can, easily'. So I asked them to take the quiz at http://www.alllooksame.com, but the results were just below 'random guessing'. They explained it is hard to see from a picture, and in real life they can see it very easy. The most important aspects are usually the clothes, and the way they behave... I also heard (maybe on jdorama lol) you can sometimes tell by the shoes only.

haha! By the shoes only...that is funny. Well I kinda agree with you on the important aspects part. Well, I am a Chinese and being one, it is easier to differentiate (I guess ><).

niko2x wrote:

you might be thinking about this thread: Your Ability to Tell Asian People Apart

Thanks niko2x! I will go check it out
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sashimi wrote:

bmwracer: It is just a feeling

Maybe I should bleach my hair, ne?

Maybe its just me, but I think its a lot to do with the eyes...

Makes me wonder why Japanimation characters have such BIG eyes at time...

Fuwari wrote:

Maybe its just me, but I think its a lot to do with the eyes... Makes me wonder why Japanimation characters have such BIG eyes at time...

because in japan they tend to make big what usually is small... like eyes... boobs..
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bmwracer wrote:

Maybe I should bleach my hair, ne?

LOL!!

I tried the quiz at http://www.alllookthesame.com and I got 10/18 correct which they say is normal. Hmm...
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Fuwari wrote:

Makes me wonder why Japanimation characters have such BIG eyes at time...

I read somewhere that the eyes are the key in expressing emotions in Anime, which is why they are so large...

supermidget wrote:

because in japan they tend to make big what usually is small... like eyes... boobs..

Astute observations, my friend.

bmwracer wrote:

I read somewhere that the eyes are the key in expressing emotions in Anime, which is why they are so large...

that may be true but the actually anime large style eyes were a bite off of the wide-eyed disney style animation that was emulated by the likes of osamu tezuka and other japanese illustrators/animators in the mid 20th century.....and it stuck.

supermidget wrote:

because in japan they tend to make big what usually is small... like eyes... boobs..

yeah, but in some cases, probably not.

I am Mexican born in the U.S. but consider myself FULL Mexican hee-ha!!! People that have parents from a different country but they themselves were born in the U.S. SOMETIMES consider themselves (fill in the blank)-American because they were born in the U.S. they I assume feel that they are also american. So does that mean that if I was born say... in China or Korea, etc. would that make me Mexican-Chinese? or Mexican-Korean? Doesn't being born some where make you a citizen of that country not necessarily make you of that ethnicity? Just curious.
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sa-sah wrote:

I am Japanese, from Brazil~* ^^d

That's like Betsy-chan: she's in Sao Paolo...

bmwracer with bleached hair? Well, give him some blue contacts and he's the young version of Takeshi's Zatoichi?

Toranaga wrote:

bmwracer with bleached hair? Well, give him some blue contacts and he's the young version of Takeshi's Zatoichi?

Pass.

In my book, there's only one Zatoichi: Katsu Shintaro.

R.I.P.

sashimi wrote:

Just wondering, can people tell apart the Chinese and Japanese? Because some Chinese really look like the Japanese and vice versa. Besides, both have the same colour skin, hair and eyes! ^^

True I can't always tell but Chinese usally have a bit darker skin colour and not so attractive while Japanese is lighter and they're HOT!!!

Gundam-Freedom wrote:

True I can't always tell but Chinese usally have a bit darker skin colour and not so attractive while Japanese is lighter and they're HOT!!!

i guess different strokes for differernt folks. I think i've seen a fair share of chinese hotties and a fair share of hurting japanese.

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Gundam-Freedom wrote:

True I can't always tell but Chinese usally have a bit darker skin colour and not so attractive while Japanese is lighter and they're HOT!!!

Majority of the chinese people i've seen don't have that dark of a skin color....pretty light compared to my tanned looking skin color.

Haven't seen that many Japanese people, the guys i've seen were very tanned and the girls were light in skin color, and both are cute looking
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