Did this ever happen to you?

Poll Started June 02, 2010 by Meiko Ohno

Hey all you Half Japs out there. Does this ever happen to you, people ask you what's your race when you say your half Japanese they say you don't look Japanese?

Did this ever happen to you?

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  • Michael

    that happened at times, I really wanted to make a graph about people's assumption of my race and group the results based on their races.lol I always found that in general depending on their race people guess my race differently.

    19 months ago

  • Martin

    Although I don't recall a "you don't look Japanese" moment, I've been told that people have guessed (before asking the "what are you?" query) that I was: 


    1.  filipino or hawaiian (not too off the mark, since many people in these groups are mixed).

    2.  american indian (yeah they came over the Bering Straight ages ago, but not really).

    3.  jewish, puerto rican, italian (okay this is just retarded).

    BTW, no one ever has told me that I "don't look German" (although people could notice subtle similarities between myself and my German mother).


    19 months ago

  • Danielle

    happens to me alot now. I looked very japanese when i was little. Now not very much.

    Alot of my friends call my dad hawaiian. which i can see why(he does look a bit), but hes far from it.

    doesn't bother me to much though now, i can ask them the same thing usually. ^_^

    4 months ago

  • Hoshinoko

    YES!  Indeed I have experienced this!  One of my dear closest friends here where I live is one who absolutely gets pissed at me when I tell him that I am not even HALF Japanese, but a FOURTH GENERATION (Yonsei) Japanese!  He clains that he is such an expert on genealogy, and yet for some gosh awful reason, he simply REFUSES to accept a part of my ancestry!

    (So, I have decided not to even bring this part of my life up to him in the future, it's hopeless).

    last month

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