[David]

My mother is Asian but I grew up in Australia in an area with few Asians. When I first went to university and started meeting Asian students studying there, it was sometimes hard at first to tell the difference between individuals, let alone what country they were from. I figure it was because, despite having seen an Asian face every day for my whole life, I wasn’t used to recognizing the reference points in Asian faces. After making many Asian friends, quite a few of them later told me that they couldn’t tell the difference between white people at first, either. It all comes down to what you’re used to seeing. Through experience I can now usually tell which part of Asia someone is from. There are some faces that are obviously Chinese/Japanese/Korean, but I find there is a certain amount of overlap, especially between Japanese and Koreans (for obvious historical reasons.) Environment plays a big part, too. For example, Koreans or Chinese who were born/raised in Japan look very Japanese, and the ethnic Japanese who were left in China as infants after WWII look very Chinese. Hong Kong Chinese look different from Singaporean or Indonesian Chinese and so on. Japanese Americans, especially 3rd or 4th-generation people, also look different from Japanese people in Japan because they have grown up speaking English, smiling and laughing like Americans, and this shows in their facial expressions and behavior.

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Name : David, Gender : M, Race : Eurasian, Age : 35, City : Tokyo, State : NA, Country : Japan, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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