What I mean is have have many times had American born Asians get angry with me cause I could not tell what country they come from.Yes,you all pretty much look alike and so do pretty all white folks and black folks.Can you tell if someone is from Ghana or Nigeria or if someone is from Germany or Scotland?I have lived in Thailand for years and the Thais make jokes all the time about looking like clones or like or people from Myanmar.I have lived here long enough to where I can plainly pick out Japanese people when they tour here but back home years ago I would have never known.If someone were to annoyed it could be me because the Thai call every white person they see Farang (Falong) because the French were the first to come here and and the Thais can't 'R' it comes out as 'L' so French or as the French say it "Fr-h-awn-se" and because Thai like to cut the endings off foreign words they got rid of the 'ce' sound and were left with a word pronounced 'Falong' so basically everybody who's white is French to them but I don't freak out unless they call me it 500 more times after they know my name. Sorry about the mistakes I was writing fast. Also,I didn't what country the come from.I meant what race they are. Also,I didn't mean what country the come from.I meant what race they are.I need to take typing lessons.
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Get over yourself. Spanish people can't pronounce J, does that bother me NO. And yes i can tell the difference between a Scot and a German, as for the Nigerian and Ghanian, if i don't know i'll use the term African.
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"because Thai like to cut the endings off foreign words" It's not that they "like to cut of endings" or anything like that, it's because they don't have the phonetic representation in their language to pronounce it correctly. That's what causes accents when any person speaks a foreign language or tries to pronounce foreign words. Guess what, when you speak Thai (assuming you even bothered to learn it after all those years living there), you have an accent too. The Portuguese arrived in Thailand before the French. And were these Asians you're talking about angry because you couldn't tell what they were, or because you assumed they were something else and called them that? I don't expect people to recognize immediately that I'm Puerto Rican, but call me Mexican or Indian and I will be quick to correct you.
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