Thursday, July 7, 2011

Do Japanese people think they look like Chinese and Koreans?

Question:


in the west, if you're American, Canadian, English, or whatever, there might be differences in cultures but they still act like they have something in common for being white.
Is this the same with East Asians? Do they feel more in common with each other because of the similarities in their looks? Or do they think they don't look like each other?

Answer:


Very discriminative but honest feeling of many Japanese people is that they are superior to China and Korea in terms of moral, manner in public, fashion, intelligence and other things. To Japanese people, 'You look like Chinese or Korean' usually has negative implication, although they may look similar from the viewpoint of western people. Interestingly, many Japanese, Koreans, Chinese can distinguish the nationality of similar Asian people by slight difference of facial character, clothing or attitude, even if they do not speak out their language.

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