Half Asian but don't look it

[lixian]

i'm a 100% asian, but some people say i don't look like one because of my very tanned skin... And my eyes are quite big for a chinese; my great great great great great grandfather was a taiwanese native.

And sometimes i'd like to shave my head, because my classmates always snatch my hairband and play with my hair.

I can speak french fluently. My english is quite ok. And i also know some chinese. But i'm not very good at it.

[Revelation]

[quote name='Epsilon][COLOR=SlateGray][SIZE=1]When I'm in the USA, I'm considered 100% American. But when I'm in China or if I were to ever go to Indonesia, I'm 100% foreign. Which I think actually have a lot of benefits.[/COLOR'][/SIZE][/quote]

[size=1][color=#33A1C9]That is almost too correct, Epsilon. I think it?s like that for a lot of people. My friend, who?s 50% American and 50% Korean, currently lives in South Korea but when she was living in America, she was 100% American and when she left for Korea, she told me she felt out of place- meaning she was 100% Foreign.

Although I may not be half-Asian, I have many friends who are half-Asian or half-ethnic. I, myself, am [B]100% Korean[/B] and was raised as such. Except, as I grew older, my traditional ways became more and more Americanized then Korean, so I?d speak Konglish to my parents and speak informally to them, when I should be speaking formally.[/color]

[quote name='Lunox][color=darkslateblue']My mom made me enroll in a Korean school held each Saturday when I was in little, and I've been going ever since (I'm graduating this year, hopefully).[/color][/quote]

[color=#33A1C9]Like Lunox, I was sent to Korean school when I was younger. The only difference is, I stopped going altogether. But the thing is, I?ve been mistaken for looking Chinese or Japanese. I think it?s because I have extremely small eyes.[/size][/color]

[The13thMan]

[FONT=Century Gothic] [COLOR=DarkOrange]I'm half Korean.

My mom's Korean and my dad's....American? Yeah, i'm gonna go with American.

Some say they can see my korean-ness, others don't. I really have no idea. I can see it but i can see how you wouldn't see it.

I'm cool.

Later.
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[Stark]

[SIZE=1]I am...something. Um...I think I'm very American in everything that I am, but that seems like a cop-out in this thread. If it wasn't for the fact that I was adopted, I could say for certain what I am. All I can do is infer a little bit from the names and what little I know of my biological parents. The only one I can really account for is some Native American blood, as that was one of the arguments to keep me from being adopted. I doubt the jerk that's my Biological Father would have used it if it wasn't true.

The last name of Lewis infers some English in me, and I think the last name Wiley points to some Irish. I'm short, with very fluffy reddish hair, and I don't really tan. The darkest I get is some wierd tone that has some reddish mixed into it, and my parents(adopted) often complain of my being burned because of it.

I have a quick temper and quite the sarcastic streak, and I like alcohol from what little I've tried. Starwind says that I'm the most dangerous person he knows, which is a dubious comment seeing as he's in the Army. I have no idea if these traits point to my upbringing, which was rather...varied, to say the least, or to my heritage. I'll find out one day, but I'm not too worried about it.[/SIZE]

[Zen]

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My dad is full blooded Greek (1st Generation American), making me [B]1/2 Greek[/B]. My mom is from the American South and is mostly Irish, Scottish, English, and Cherokee. So when I'm asked my ethnicity, I just say [B]Greek[/B]. I'm really proud of my heritage and what not. I love the food, I'm trying to learn to speak the language, I love the history and mythology, and I like to study the Greek Orthodox relegion.

The only thing on me that isn't really Greek looking is the color of my hair, because it is a fusion of my dad's black and my mom's red. So it's a strange auburn, very dark. But it grows in a wavy fashion, so my head looks like those statues of Apollo and what not. Very interesting I'm told.

My skin tone naturally is darker than most caucasians for my Dad's side. In fact, the only reason I look white is because I don't get alot of sun. My Dad is darker than several Latino's I've met. I'm told that I would be the same if I was out as much as him. Something I should start doing...

But yeah, thats me.[/color][/size]

[Chie]

[COLOR=tan][SIZE=1][FONT=Trebuchet MS]i'm actually 100% filipino, but i have a handful of half-asian friends. unfortunantly...both their halfs are asian ^___^" so i guess that doesn't count.

i do have a friend from when i was still living in jacksonville, fl aka j-ville aka redneckville who was half-vietnamese and half...uh...something european or american native. i actually had no idea she was even half-asian! of all the years i've been friends with her i still had no clue! her hair is actually a dark auburn-brown color and her skin is pale-tan and she has the vietnamese almond eyes... but yeah...i'm pretty slow =]

but the point is that she's really pretty. a few weeks ago my two guy friends (who are full vietnamese) were talking about breeding beautiful children. yes it was weird. they were talking about which ethnicities would mix well together and they agreed on vietnamese with french. although...i only think they chose vietnamese is cuz they have that viet-pride thing. hah.

i also have a classmate who's half-vietnamese and half-mexican. when i first met her she had that whole mexican thing going on and she even had a mexican accent. until one day i heard her speak in vietnamese (and i mean REALLY speak it) i was like, HOLD THE PHONE! are you vietnamese or mexican? x]

people often thinking i'm japanese (i WISH!), but i tell them i'm too dark to be japanese. at least i don't look like those National City girls (btw, NC is located near San Diego...a lot of the sterotypical and gangsta filipinos live there and the filipina's look horrobily alike...or from what i know...)[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[Funny Girl]

I look Asian but I act American. I'm both Japenese and Chinese but people think I look and act American. I love Japanese food and American food, I love anime and moanga but most of my friends think that I'm just a regular American which I'm not!

[Guest Asuna-sun]

I'm thai, but i look white from my dad. how strange is that? :animeswea

[Guest KAZUTA]

[quote name='Asuna-sun']I'm thai, but i look white from my dad. how strange is that? :animeswea[/quote]
I have Thai in me to! But I am a mut, I have lots of stuff mixed in!
It's a long list, don't ask. :animesigh

[Roxie Faye]

[color=#9933ff]Thai? Really! Cool! *pounces* sowat dee ka! I'm Thai... in spirit. ^__^ Sorta, I mean. My dad is 100% chinese, but his parents were Chiense immigrants living in Thailand, and he was born and raised in Thailand all his life. He identifies himself as Thai in the same way that I call myself an America. So I'm "kinda" Thai.

Some of you are talking about how people mistake you for other Asian nationalities. Is there actually a way for people to tell nationalities apart, or are these people just being idiots who think they can 'call' someone's nationality by looking at them.

I seriously don't think it is possibly to just [i]say[/i] someone is Chinese or Malaysian or Korean or Vietnamese by looking at them. ...It's not possible... right?

The only way I can tell is by looking at their last name. Give me a name, and I'll tell you if it's Chinese, Korean, Japanese, or Thai (generally with Thai; a teacher at my school had a really short name, though, bestowed upon the family by the king, and I didn't know until she told me. Long names, as a general rule, are Thai). I'm not so good with Vietnamese, though, and anything else (Indonesian, Malaysian, Laotian, etc.) is lost on me. *_*[/color]

[Dagger]

[QUOTE=MistressRoxie][color=#9933ff]
I seriously don't think it is possibly to just [i]say[/i] someone is Chinese or Malaysian or Korean or Vietnamese by looking at them. ...It's not possible... right?[/color][/QUOTE]
That's a touchy subject for some people, but I think [url=http://www.alllooksame.com/][u]this site[/u][/url] casts a pretty interesting light on it. Try taking the test. As for me, I got far less than half of them right.

At Chinese & Japanese restaurants, grocery stores, etc., people usually start addressing my mom in those languages, automatically assuming that she's Chinese or Japanese.

~Dagger~

[DBZgirl88]

[COLOR=#004a6f]I'm Palestinian, but I don't look arabic all, unless you count the large eyes.

Some of you might have heard the Arabs and Jews are "cousins" because they are both descendants of Abraham. The things is "arabs" that are descendants of abraham aren't really pure arabic, because abraham was not arabic. Nowadays, it's really whether your mother tongue is arabic that determines whether you're an arab or not. So the only really pure arabs are those from yemen, while the other arabs have armenian ancestry as well.

The upper arab countries like palesine, lebanon, syria, jordan, etc have a whiter population, so in addition to armenian ancestors, we also have a bit or greek and possibly jewish ancestry too.

Anyway, I'm often mistaken for being jewish or greek. I have fairly white skin for an arab, though it's still darker than caucasian skin. I won't discuss my hair in detail since I wear the head scarf, but I will say, it looks nothing like arabic hair, and is probably the biggest reason people think I'm jewish.

I remember once someone was so shocked when they found out I was arabic ("You're arabic?! I thought you were GREEK!!!!")[/COLOR]

[QuincyArcher]

Im half japanese from my mom's side, she was born & raised in tokyo and im half caucasion (english if you want to be exact) from my dad's side. A lot of people tell me i look hispanic, which is kinda wierd but whatever. Like most i have lost touch with my japanese heritage, my mom tells me i used to be fluent in japanese when i was an infant but i lost it all thanks to the american school system. Though if i were to hear a conversation in japanese i can still understand quite a bit of what's being said oddly enough, just i can't speak it well at all. Although i really love japanese culture, food and of course anime, i still consider myself american through and through and wouldnt have it any other way.

[Roxie Faye]

[color=#9933ff]Hey, that is a pretty interesting site, Dagger. I got 9 out of 18, and it was purely by guessing. It is a touchy subject, but I like that site - it's pretty cool.

Heh, I'm sure that can get annoying for you mom when people start to assume and talk to her in their language. My dad doesn't assume - he just shows off. Honestly, he's such a show off; he spoke Mandarin to someone at a Chinese take-out place once, in front of all these other people. Or, perhaps, he was only trying to help out the person taking his order? I don't really know - I was littler, then.

I know he doesn't pretend that he can speak Japanese, though. He's really funny - he asked about superglue in a store in Toyko once, and he told me that the guy just kept talking and talking to him, and he didn't understand a word of what the guy said, and then walked out of the store (without the glue) in a daze. Hehe.

I kinda like that test; I want to make my mom take it - lol. [/color]

[Shadow Blade]

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I don't know if this post could pertain to this. But hey, this thread is basically about how apperances can be so decieving, right?

Well, I have one about how my older sister and I look like twins. If you're a guy it totally sucks. Unfortunatly for me, it does suck.

I'm native american and not a twin. My older sister is shorter than me, and she also looks younger than she is. To give you an idea she's 20, on our last summer vacation to Walt Disney Land in California, the ticket salesman sold her a child's ticket. For some reason people think I'm 2 years younger than I look. I hate it. At any rate, People think my sister and I are twins. So, uh, yeah. It feels good to get that off my back.[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[kyogrl]

im half filipino and half chinese. i look chinese from my moms side. her mom's mom is chinese. but ppl think im chinese because how i look. ppl always say if im chinese, japanese, and so on before they can say if im filipino. i cant speak tagalog very much but i can understand a little of it. all my friends can speak tagalog. when my friends talk in tagalog i just listen and ask what they are saying. i mostly speak english. but im 100% asian!

[Aaryanna]

[COLOR=DarkSlateBlue]How about being half something but actually looking like it? My mom?s family when they originally entered the USA came from Germany. I understand that a number of them came from Russia as well.

They?ve been in the USA long enough that none of us speak German or Russian. But a lot of us defiantly look German with blonde hair and blue eyes. But I?m from either the third or fourth generation so I?m considered American.

If I were to talk about not looking like my ancestry then I would have to choose the small percent that came from one of my great great grandmothers being 100% Cherokee. So far not a single one of the family has ever looked like her.[/COLOR]

[TheResplendent]

I'm half chinese (cantonese) and the other parts are italian and puerto rican. I only really look it when my hair is wet but thats bout it, I don't have the face at all. Whenever people guess my nationality chinese is hardly ever said, heh. I don't know how to speak it or write it though...my parents and i were born in the U.S. I've actually been trying to get more in touch with my asian roots...reading about some history, the artwork, meet some new people (i have like 1 chinese friend). I already love the food though :p

[Roxie Faye]

[color=#9933ff]I htink that's really cool that you want to learn more about your Asian side. That's kinda what I want to do, too. I want to learn to speak Chinese someday (I'm not counting on writing it - God help me in my endeavors if I even *attempt* to try to learn the writing), and I want to know more about Chinese culture.

Next year's Academic Decathlon topic is all about modern China (History of Communism, China as a market economy, Chinese art, Chinese music, etc.), so hopefully that will give me a better understanding of Chiense culture. ^.^''[/color]

[vat2anime]

I'm Vietnamese, but most people think I look like a Puerto Rican.

[TheResplendent]

[QUOTE=MistressRoxie][color=#9933ff]I htink that's really cool that you want to learn more about your Asian side. That's kinda what I want to do, too. I want to learn to speak Chinese someday (I'm not counting on writing it - God help me in my endeavors if I even *attempt* to try to learn the writing), and I want to know more about Chinese culture.

Next year's Academic Decathlon topic is all about modern China (History of Communism, China as a market economy, Chinese art, Chinese music, etc.), so hopefully that will give me a better understanding of Chiense culture. ^.^''[/color][/QUOTE]


The only thing that really stops me from writing it well is i have really bad penmanship, lol. My characters can be illegible and it's a lot worse then if you write english because there's only 26 lettes and only 3 or 4 look similar to one another. Won't get away with that with 5000+ characters.

[Guest Ejin]

[quote name='Alannie']Are anyone of you half Asian and half something else like me? I'm half Filipino and half Mexican. I look like a mexican but act like a filipino. I'm into anime and manga. I love asian food. And I also speak more filipino language (sorry don't know what it's called) than spanish. It's weird. How about you?[/quote]



I am also half Asian!

I am half black and japanese
I was rose around lots of Asian influence
Eating asian food and watching anime
and hearing japanese spoken to me is normal