It's the same in European countries of latin descent (Italy, France, Romania, Spain, Portugal). Maybe not to that degree, however people are very social, chatty, it's easy to meet new friends and so forth.
The more you go up north, the more this social trait disappears.
Lira
Wow, and I thought people in Japan were distant :stongue:
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Originally posted by Vector A
I don't think your skin is quite dark enough to pass the "suspected Muslim" threshold. Spend a bunch of time in the sun and you might, though.
Challenge accepted!
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Originally posted by Vector A
Also helps if you have facial hair.
Yay!
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Originally posted by Meat187
You've already used this image too much already, by the way, you're not allowed to use it again until I really post something remotely thoughtful here :D
Chimney
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I don't think your skin is quite dark enough to pass the "suspected Muslim" threshold. Spend a bunch of time in the sun and you might, though.
There were once these American missionaries in my city a few years ago. They told me I wouldn't be welcomed to the USA (I had beard back then so I guess they though I was middle-eastener).
Acton
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Originally posted by Lira
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Joss Weatherby
I don't think its that common in the US just because we have a fairly diverse population... I mean you might make mention of people you know if its brought up in conversation to you, but you wouldn't just start listing off people that are asian or mexican or black or white or whatever just for the hell of it.
On the other hand if someone says like "oh I know this Japanese guy so and so" you might mention that you knew some Japanese person if it as in relation to the topic at hand...
But yea just to be like "oh you are with a asian person, I know an asian person" would just be ing weird, not even stupid, more like mental sort of... :nervous:
Lira
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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
I don't think its that common in the US just because we have a fairly diverse population.
Makes sense, but I believe there's yet another difference: we're quite diverse ourselves, but whereas it seems normal to say "I'm Mexican/Armenian/Italian" in the US just because your parents are from these countries, we'd find this extremely pedantic and random (if you were born here, you're Brazilian - unless, strangely enough, your parents came from the Far East). Hell, our census only lists people as "White/Mixed/Black/Native"... Asians can feel free to list themselves as white (as the government is fond of doing) or mixed (as the most puzzled amongst them tend to do).
srussell0018
This happens to me a lot. I know all about everybody's great great great grandparents who were from Ireland and yada yada yada.
infiniteJEST
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Originally posted by jonSun
That's very odd. When I meet someone who is asian. I like to first talk about Hiroshima, Nagasaki or the Vietnam war. Then I ask them if dog tastes like chicken.
Let's not forget the Rape of Nanking now.
Vector A
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Originally posted by Lira
Challenge accepted!
bananas
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Originally posted by Miss Pie
I think it's a lame idiot thing.
Joss Weatherby
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Originally posted by infiniteJEST
Let's not forget the Rape of Nanking now.
