Comments on: How To Spot A Jap http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/how-to-spot-a-jap/ I'm a dad, designer, China expat and blogger Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:41:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: 长舟丫 http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-18757 长舟丫 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:55:28 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/2006/07/09/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-18757 5/18. Five! I hang my head in shame. Excruciating wartime cartoons, by the way, thanks for sharing. Better try and find time to submit something to your What I Know Now project... 长舟丫 5/18. Five! I hang my head in shame. Excruciating wartime cartoons, by the way, thanks for sharing.

Better try and find time to submit something to your What I Know Now project… 长舟丫

]]> By: Ryan http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-9695 Ryan Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:43:42 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/2006/07/09/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-9695 Yeah, um… that’s bunk man. I like the alllooksame site because at its core it promotes people to be less race sensitive and less worried about racial faux pas… and admits (rightfully) that Asians, particularly East Asians, look entirely too similar to distinguish at a glance. This, just like European counter-parts, is a fact of a long-globalized world and comes to the core of the issue, which is we’re all human, we’re bound to look the same. You’re right in that your Jomon-like people shown here (with striking photos of models and ancient officials) do look considerably different from the average East Asian. The fact is, Jomon people would be well interbred with the rest of Japanese population after nearly two and a half millenniums, and any carry-over characteristics are certainly isolated. Additionally, alllooksame was definitely not intending to compare Chinese, Korean and Jomon Japanese. That'd be a bit like comparing Chinese, Vietnamese and Tibetans. Or Tibetans, Nepalese and Indian. I applaud that you are so dedicated to learning about this stuff that you've gone to some lengths in finding genetic information - but using this information to try and support a rather goofy idea is just silly. Yeah, um… that’s bunk man. I like the alllooksame site because at its core it promotes people to be less race sensitive and less worried about racial faux pas… and admits (rightfully) that Asians, particularly East Asians, look entirely too similar to distinguish at a glance.

This, just like European counter-parts, is a fact of a long-globalized world and comes to the core of the issue, which is we’re all human, we’re bound to look the same.

You’re right in that your Jomon-like people shown here (with striking photos of models and ancient officials) do look considerably different from the average East Asian. The fact is, Jomon people would be well interbred with the rest of Japanese population after nearly two and a half millenniums, and any carry-over characteristics are certainly isolated.

Additionally, alllooksame was definitely not intending to compare Chinese, Korean and Jomon Japanese. That’d be a bit like comparing Chinese, Vietnamese and Tibetans. Or Tibetans, Nepalese and Indian.

I applaud that you are so dedicated to learning about this stuff that you’ve gone to some lengths in finding genetic information – but using this information to try and support a rather goofy idea is just silly.

]]> By: parrobots http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-9656 parrobots Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:07:29 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/2006/07/09/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-9656 This site can help you to distinguish faces of korean, japanese, chinese. http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=1292 It’s really amazing stuffs, but I leave the interpretation to you. cheers. This site can help you to distinguish faces of korean, japanese, chinese.

http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=1292

It’s really amazing stuffs, but I leave the interpretation to you.

cheers.

]]> By: Peter http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-5468 Peter Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:36:21 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/2006/07/09/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-5468 Auch. Thought I had it going for me in the spotting area. Turns out I only scored a disappointing 6/18. Bet my Chinese wife will be angry that I can't tell the Japs and Chinese apart. Better not mention it. :-) I'm Danish btw. Auch. Thought I had it going for me in the spotting area. Turns out I only scored a disappointing 6/18.

Bet my Chinese wife will be angry that I can’t tell the Japs and Chinese apart. Better not mention it. :-)

I’m Danish btw.

]]> By: Gionata http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-3850 Gionata Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:50:24 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/2006/07/09/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-3850 Japanese bow twice. Korean do it once. Chinese don't do it at all. Japanese bow twice.

Korean do it once.

Chinese don’t do it at all.

]]> By: Andrej http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-3639 Andrej Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:21:31 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/2006/07/09/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-3639 citing alllooksame site alone isn't balanced. You can probably go to some web sources such as this one. http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=324&start=0 citing alllooksame site alone isn’t balanced. You can probably go to some web sources such as this one.

http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=324&start=0

]]> By: We All Look The Same To Them | Life In Suzhou China Blog | Adventures of the Humanaught http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-2765 We All Look The Same To Them | Life In Suzhou China Blog | Adventures of the Humanaught Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:47:10 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/2006/07/09/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-2765 [...] Considering "How To Spot A Jap" is my second most popular post with 1056 views as of this writing (snuggly between "Who Wants The Display Model" and "Chairman Mee-ow!"), it should come as no surprise to me that the whole nationality-blurring aspect goes both ways. I always thought it was an insult to Asian people when ignorant friends of mine would boldly state "meh, the all look the same to me." Of course, that was all well before I became privy to the knowledge that Chinese are top contenders for the "most racist people on the planet" title. Now I'm a little less PC and a whole lot more 'liberal' on the issue (Canadians, see what I did there?). [...] [...] Considering "How To Spot A Jap" is my second most popular post with 1056 views as of this writing (snuggly between "Who Wants The Display Model" and "Chairman Mee-ow!"), it should come as no surprise to me that the whole nationality-blurring aspect goes both ways. I always thought it was an insult to Asian people when ignorant friends of mine would boldly state "meh, the all look the same to me." Of course, that was all well before I became privy to the knowledge that Chinese are top contenders for the "most racist people on the planet" title. Now I'm a little less PC and a whole lot more 'liberal' on the issue (Canadians, see what I did there?). [...]

]]> By: Ryan http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-2118 Ryan Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:30:55 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/2006/07/09/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-2118 @Inst: Rigged? What would be the reasoning? I think what the point of this post, these comments and that site is that Asians are as intermixed with their features as Europeans are. Someone can look more "Korean"-looking or "Southern Han Chinese"-looking and be Japanese or Vietnamese, but it's just using standards from history (mostly via interpretive paintings), and doesn't represent the genetic mix that is the present. @Inst: Rigged? What would be the reasoning? I think what the point of this post, these comments and that site is that Asians are as intermixed with their features as Europeans are. Someone can look more “Korean”-looking or “Southern Han Chinese”-looking and be Japanese or Vietnamese, but it’s just using standards from history (mostly via interpretive paintings), and doesn’t represent the genetic mix that is the present.

]]> By: Inst http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-2117 Inst Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:15:09 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/2006/07/09/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-2117 Rigged. For ethnicities, the faces are screwed up. Also, all Chinese are not racially identical; there is a difference between Northern Han and Southern Han, and then there are the ethnic minorities. Rigged.

For ethnicities, the faces are screwed up. Also, all Chinese are not racially identical; there is a difference between Northern Han and Southern Han, and then there are the ethnic minorities.

]]> By: me i and myself http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-1331 me i and myself Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:29:45 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/2006/07/09/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-1331 3/18. Chinese. no difference at all. hell... 3/18. Chinese. no difference at all. hell…

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