Trump’s “Where are you from?” Moment

Flopping Aces ^ | 10-16-15 | Wordsmith

[DiogenesLamp]

After many years of marriage, I can’t identify different origins of Asians visually.

Seriously? I can generally tell Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Cambodian and Filipinos apart.

Koreans are sometimes a little tougher because some of them resemble Chinese and some of them resemble Japanese. Sometimes you can look at them and see distinct Korean characteristics, but sometimes you can't.

Probably your difficulty stems from not seeing representatives of other Asian groups. In my town, the various Asian groups are very cliquish. They pretty much only hang out with their own groups.

The Japanese hang out with other Japanese, the Koreans hang out with other Koreans, (Japanese and Koreans often hate each other) the Vietnamese hang out with other Vietnamese, and so forth.

They do interact a little between the groups, but mostly they just hang out with their own group.

Your wife probably hangs out with mostly Chinese, so you don't get to see many people from other Asian countries.

Just a guess.