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For a while, I’ve noticed this. A situation occurs where your ethnicity is mentioned, and it feels like most of the time, non-Asians automatically assume you’re chinese. Two things can be basically going on in your mind:

1) You are Chinese and are like “Wow, you have a sixth sense of Asianness!”

2) You aren’t Chinese and are like “Wow, you suck!”

And depending on where you live, this may happen quite often. This is somewhat understandable…I mean, I can’t usually tell what ethnicity an Asian is. Particularly in the U.S., Chinese are one of the biggest (if not the biggest) percentage of Asians in the country as well. So maybe there’s some validity to all this, but still, it can be annoying, especially if you fall under number 2. This annoyance stems from Chinese essentially representing all Asians.

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Does this happen to you quite often or is it a rare occasion and I’m just goofy?

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