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Originally Posted by MMM
No one said they could do it 100%, and of course with younger generations and more mixing of the gene pools this may lost. Of course with interracial individuals like Crystal Kay it isn't as clear from "looks" that she is just Japanese...but it is pretty easy to tell that she is an interracial individual, wouldn't you say?
Your use of small incidents in history is a little naive, and to be frank, your tone is condescending. I suppose it is impossible to tell Africans, Native Americans, South Americans apart, too. Yup...all the same.
No one ever said anything about PURE BLOOD.
TENDENCIES! That's all that was said.
Black people have a tendency to have darker skin than white people.
"But Michael Jackson doesn't have dark skin, and he is black, so that can't be an identifying factor".
That's your logic, and it is ludicrous.
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LOL. It's not MY logic... it's VIEWS.
It's to my understanding that throughout history, East Asia has alot of mixture in blood. That is why people tend to think Korean, Japanese, and Chinese people look similar whereas WHITE ethnicities tend to have more distinct physical features. You look at Irish people and they have a genetical stereotyping of being red headed, green eyed, and pale. Asians don't have that sort of distinctness, we go by what BELIEVE to be facial structure.
And I am replying to the VERY first post by the way... I don't know what you guys have been discussing throughout the thread because I haven't read it.... I'm just stating my opinion on the first person's post.
And as for Michael Jackson... well, i'm not sure what your trying to imply, because Michael Jackson did not always LOOK that way.
Please, don't confuse what I'm trying to imply. What I'm just saying is that you can't look at the features in an asian person, and assume they classify to their countries, because East Asians ALL have similar physical traits (hair, face, eyes).
I am Korean-American and people think I'm chinese or Japanese all the time. I ask them why they think I'm Japanese and they say, "it's your eyes." What about my eyes look KOREAN or JAPANESe or CHINESE? What about the physical features can people base off of to identify an ethnicity besides features that we have SEEN with our very eyes and have aknowledged.
Basically, I am AGREEING with the first poster. You cannot tell asians apart based off what we "know" from what we "see". A Japanese person could look "100% Korean" in one's eyes. That is stereotyping based off how that person "looks" and that may be ignorant, but hey. It's really not that important anyway. If you're asian, you're asian. If you're white, you're white, etc.
In any case, I don't give a crap whether people can't tell what I am, and I'm pretty white washed so I have a hard time telling Asians apart.... but why should it matter? Is it insulting if someone calls me Chinese? Why would it be? Is it insulting if someone calls me,"NORTH KOREAN" compared to South Korean? Are you kidding me? That's what we call, ignorance.
(I just wanted to debate. hahaha... not like I'm trying to create tension with anyone. I'm not saying I'm RIGHT, nor do I think I'm wrong... I'm just stating what I believe.)