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Jeremy Hunt, U.K. Foreign Secretary, Calls Chinese Wife Japanese on Beijing Visit
New York Times ^
| July 30, 2018
| Gerry Mullany
Posted on 07/30/2018 7:07:44 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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posted on
07/30/2018 7:07:44 AM PDT
by
EdnaMode
To: EdnaMode
They must be very close. :D
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posted on
07/30/2018 7:08:28 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: EdnaMode
Yeah, I remember the time I called my wife African American even though she’s a Lilly white, red-headed Irish girl.
I mean, they all look alike, right?
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posted on
07/30/2018 7:09:26 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: EdnaMode
We all look arike.........................
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posted on
07/30/2018 7:11:42 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(July 2018 - the month the world discovered the TRUTH......Q Anon)
To: cuban leaf
My Chinese wife would have my ears for a handbag if I ever called her Japanese
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posted on
07/30/2018 7:13:20 AM PDT
by
Fai Mao
(There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
To: cuban leaf
I mean, they all look alike, right?
Only to brain-dead politicians and Hussein Heads.
Lara Logan is an African-American woman.
To: Red Badger
😁
To: EdnaMode
Not just China, but his wife will be angry with him as well!
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posted on
07/30/2018 7:18:12 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: cuban leaf
All cats are gray in the dark
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posted on
07/30/2018 7:19:24 AM PDT
by
bert
To: Fai Mao
I have had a lot of Asian friends in my lifetime. In fact, it’s not just Asians. Call a Ukrainan a Russian and see how that works out for you.
Same with Korean vs Japanese, etc. And especially if you are married to them. :)
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posted on
07/30/2018 7:21:07 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: cuban leaf
Reading about it, it sounds terrible. How can this guy possibly get his wife’s ethnicity wrong? And yet who amongst us hasn’t had the occasional brain hiccup where the wrong words inexplicably come out? Even family members occasionally call each other by the wrong name. I’ve done it. And it’s been done to me. Stand back from it, isolate it and it looks terrible. How can someone possibly mistake one sister for another, etc? And yet there it is. It happens.
To: irishjuggler
Calling by the wrong name is different.
If your wife is Asian, you know what nationality she is and mixing up the names is almost as blatant as calling your white wife black. The depth of knowledge one would have about why it’s a no-no would be so overwhelming it would be hard to do. Calling one of your kids by another one’s name is not that unusual and not a no-no.
I agree that it is possible, and I’d not get upset if my wife called me French, but since she knows I’m welsh, I can’t imagine her doing it.
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posted on
07/30/2018 7:31:00 AM PDT
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cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: cuban leaf
I mean, they all look alike, right?
My daughter-in-law is Japanese. Every time we go to a Japanese restaurant she’ll take one look at the staff (all Asian) and say, “They’re not Japanese.” And she thinks it’s funny that I can’t tell the difference. However, she is sometimes mistaken for Korean in Korean restaurants, so I guess the differences are pretty subtle.
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posted on
07/30/2018 7:33:11 AM PDT
by
hanamizu
To: hanamizu
Yep. I think to put it in perspective, it would be like your Asian wife calling you German or Scandinavian, but you are French. I can’t imagine that happening unless she doesn’t know you very well.
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posted on
07/30/2018 7:35:05 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: EdnaMode
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posted on
07/30/2018 7:39:09 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: cuban leaf
It’s like referring to a Polish person as a “Russian”.
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posted on
07/30/2018 7:39:42 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
It’s like referring to an American as a Canadian!
GRRRRR!
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posted on
07/30/2018 7:43:20 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
07/30/2018 7:58:50 AM PDT
by
EdnaMode
To: EdnaMode
Oh, no!!! Not a gaffe!!! How will we ever survive?
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posted on
07/30/2018 8:07:09 AM PDT
by
abclily
To: EdnaMode
Well.. They all got a chuckle out of it!
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posted on
07/30/2018 8:08:12 AM PDT
by
DivineMomentsOfTruth
("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and persue it steadily." -GW)
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