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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
I don't think Asians can tell as well as they say they can. I went to Tokyo last year for my birthday with my husband and my good friend, Sarah, who is Vietnamese and was adopted at birth by a white couple. She was mistaken for Japansese everywhere we went in Tokyo. Many times, waitresses would try to speak Japanese to her and get mad when she didn't understand them, then look at me like I could explain why she didn't know Japanese. I think they thought she was out Japanese tour guide.  |
Haha, you should see the shock on the faces of Japanese people when they realize that BlazerCheer and SweetTea not only don't speak Japanese but that since they came as infants, they have deep Southern accents. They want to know why we didn't find them tutors--yeah right, where? The weird thing is that Filipino and Vietnamese people have never asked us why our daughters from those countries don't speak their native languages...they have, however, been able to ID them right off as Filipina and Vietnamese.