They all look the same to you, huh?
At a restaurant I happened to glance at the current issue (March 27, 2011) of Expat newspaper. The headline was about the influx of Japanese visitors to the Philippines after the recent earthquake.
“The increasing Japanese presence in the Philippines may not be immediately visible to the Filipinos considering the similarity in features between the Japanese and the South Koreans.”
I don’t think the Japanese would like that.
I don’t think the Koreans would like that.
And I don’t do political correctness, but that lede sounds like “They all look the same to us.”
The article also referred to the Japanese visitors as “refugees”. They REALLY will not like that.
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March 28th, 2011 at 00:33
How embarrassing.
Hope someone from Expat gets to read your post.
March 28th, 2011 at 03:31
Ack, I’m guilty of that. I used to think the Chinese, the Japanese and the Koreans all look the same. When I started watching their movies and their dramas, and got immersed in their culture, I realized, boy was I wrong.
March 28th, 2011 at 08:41
I dunno. What’s wrong with saying they have the same features? I mean, to the average observer who has not had the chance to visit or reside in those countries, Japanese and Koreans DO look alike.
It’s like saying Pinoys and Indonesians and Malaysians look alike. We have the same features, we look alike — why would that be wrong or offensive?
Now as for being refugees — I agree, our Japanese visitors REALLY will not like that.
March 29th, 2011 at 19:23
HUWAG GANOOON! EKS NA EKS YOOONN! MALII! MALING MALII!
Yan, ganyan kami pag nagkakainitan sa alak. Ahaha!
March 29th, 2011 at 21:44
E kung sinabi nila na pare-pareho lang naman ang sirena at syokoy?
March 29th, 2011 at 22:25
I think the Japanese, Koreans and Chinese don’t appreciate being told they look alike because of their hostile history. I remembered a Korean student telling me Chinese have poor hygiene and a Japanese student telling me Koreans like copying Japanese ideas and claiming them as their own.
Filipinos, Indonesians and Malaysians don’t really have a history of animosity.