Ok,I took this dumb internet quiz because I was bored.It was:HOW ASIAN ARE YOU?
1.I answered all the questions truthfully,and I got:You Are Not Asian.
2.I then answered non-truthfully,checking all the boxes that referred to pokemon and anime.My result was then 100 % Asian.
That is so screwy.The basic idea of the quiz was:Asians=pokemon,anime,karate & kung foo SCREWY. That's the basic stereotypical definition of Chinese,Korean,and Japanese people.
In truth,everyone,I am half Asian half European. Now,I am sure some people would automatically assume my Asian half is Japanese,Chinese,or Korean.
But it's not.
My Asian half is East Indian(India),my European half is Finnish.
Now,what my basic point is this:"all asian people like pokemon,anime,and pocky sticks. AGAIN.....You notice how all that stuff is Korean/Chinese/Japanese? Korea,China,and Japan aren't the only countries in Asia,as some people give the idea by what they say about Asian people.
But, if India is geographically part of Asia, surely from that perspective its peoples are Asian. Asian in terms of the continent, not the race, as Asia contains a wide mix of races. For the same reason, it's fine to call Egyptians African, because they live in Africa.
It all depends from what perspective you're looking at it.
As regards the internet quiz, most internet quizzes are stupid. And a quiz that rates how Asian you are is doomed from the beginning, because it's bound to assume that all asians have certain things in common when actually they're as diverse as any other race.
i am not asian but it really irritates me when someone sees a person with slanted eyes and automatically says that they are "chinese". When ever someone starts talking in an asian language, they automatically think "oh, they can speak chinese".
kg: Yes,I am canadian,but it doenst really matter if you lump the canadians with the americans (to me anyways) because A.I live,uh......2 and a half hours from the border to the U.S. B.We're all North Americans!
personally it is really difficult for me to understand how poeple think all asians are oriental (japanese, chinese, korean) because geographically asia is HUGE. it includes those countries plus the south asian sub-continent (india, pakistan, sri lanka) and where i come from, south-east asia.
asian people are PEOPLE, each have their own likes, dislikes and ways of thinking. it doesn't mean that we all are into pokemon and anime. it's as racially discriminating as saying all black people like rap. thats just not the way it is. i would love to think that in the present we can stop labelling people, whether the label be "yellow" or "asian" or "white".
it's time to start seeing each other as people. that's all we are.
I'm asian, well actually half Korean, and you would be suprised at how uncultured people really are. People think I'm either Chinese or Vietnamese which is so annoying sometimes. Questions like "are you North Korean or South?" Well if I was North, i definately wouldn't be here in the US!
I hope it didn't ask you something like, "How yellow is your skin?" That's like taking a quiz titled "How American Are You," based on how much you like apple pie and baseball, or whether you've ever roped a cow before. ;P
i'm chinese,the "kongfu" and stuff sometimes amuses me...
hmm my teacher has several indian friends and she asked them physically...are you asian? and they told her...indian people are racially european,their culture is unique,and india as a country is geographically asian. why not be proud of being half unique?
you really don't have to mind the quiz on the internet,everyone can make a quiz here...let's not expect everyone knows about everywhere in this world
1st off, internet quizes are not the place to take others' racial definitions seriously. that being said, yes, i do believe that the first ethnicities people think about when hearing the term "asian" is chinese/japanese/korean. many people classify indians and others from the middle east in a different category, perhaps because most will find those cultures more removed from, say, the chinese culture relative to the japanese culture. additionally, i think that the average american (although i think you said in another post that you were canadian, so forgive me for lumping you with us) has more contact with chinese/korean/japanese people than with southeastern asians or people from oceania. just a thought.
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