• 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      it’s because they usually stuck to their buses. no idea if they were Japanese or Chinese, never saw them anywhere beyond talking pictures in some spots.

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        28 minutes ago

        Sorry bud, you weren’t able to determine what country they were from by visual cues alone? It’s over for you. He knows who you are, deep down.

        • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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          25 minutes ago

          do they want me to try to remember and guess the nationality of people I saw from a distance 20 years ago?

          not going by “they all look the same” but come on. you try to guess the nationality of a tourist you saw across the street 20 or so years ago

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            8 minutes ago

            Tsk tsk, not having perfect recall about some random people you literally never interacted with? For shame.

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      15 hours ago

      Probably just a regional thing.

      In the US it means East Asian, in the UK it means Southeast Asians.

      I guess most places default to the US definition unless they have a big population like the UK due to the US exporting their language through media.