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Post by catgirl on May 27, 2007 19:28:35 GMT -5
Pinay is Filipino. I usually use the nose as a marker to (internally)guess if someone is Filipino, Malay, etc or Latino. More Southeast Asians tend to have bulbous noses than Latinos but then anything is possible. I (internally) guess but always refrain from labeling someone an ethnicity. The person may look Filipino but could be Irish. I don't guess unless asked. Alot of people guess my etnicity. I think its kind of rude...Especially when theyr always wrong I dont like to ask people straight out where they have theyr heritage from. I may just guess for myself. And if they want to themselves, they might tell if its at all important for the person.
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Post by chinesejewfool on May 27, 2007 22:35:28 GMT -5
to be specific, Pinay means Filipino girl
Pinoy means Filipino boy
well, I don't know if it's the actual meaning, but that's what it refers to
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Post by dannyd on May 28, 2007 2:13:42 GMT -5
I overheard a girl at uni today over lunch point me out to her friend as a 'fellow halfie' or 'fellow half baby' I'm not sure. I guess she didn't expect that I'd hear, but it just so happened that I was checking her out at the time
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Post by Trix on May 28, 2007 10:05:56 GMT -5
well, yes on several occasions I was asked if I was spanish or even bolivian I look a bit darker than usual on that pic but I certainly have very fair skin tone. But never heard of looking like a pinay
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Post by catgirl on May 28, 2007 10:32:03 GMT -5
There was a person who said I looked philipino....And some others say Russian or French, so it varies alot I guess. You never know what comes next, hehehe.
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Post by catgirl on May 31, 2007 18:25:17 GMT -5
Martian? whats that?
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Post by catgirl on Jun 1, 2007 8:11:50 GMT -5
A martian is from the planet Mars or any other planet in outer space. People stare at me or try to find out "what" I am so I feel like this guy ooo. Scary corpse
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Post by ladystacey on Jun 1, 2007 17:03:44 GMT -5
A martian is from the planet Mars or any other planet in outer space. People stare at me or try to find out "what" I am so I feel like this guy YACCCKKK, ACKKK, YACK! I love mars attacks ;D I had all their toys with their annoying lingo. So funny, yesterday one of the school counselors called me in asked me to meet with a student she was having trouble communicating with, the ESL teacher was out so I thought on the phone she was probably asian of some sort and I only speak mandarin so hopefully she does to Turns out she is Spanish, I know some Spanish but not that much, the counselor thought I was Spanish or Hispanic, ahahahaha, that was funny.
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Post by amaus on Jun 19, 2008 11:07:39 GMT -5
I def look more asian, esp now as I am getting older. It is kind of interesting...
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Post by agentxprovocateur on Jul 31, 2008 22:00:30 GMT -5
I honestly don't know. And I have OCD so I obsess over this issue everyday. There are some days I look @ myself and think whoa all Asian and there are others where it's like...what am I? ..identity crisis=story of my life.
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Post by betahat on Jul 31, 2008 22:49:20 GMT -5
A Chinese cashier at Long's Pharmacy called me out the other day at the check-out counter. He said something along the lines of "You half-Asian" and smiled when I said "yeah." It's always a little surreal to me when random strangers venture a guess to my ethnicity (I'd love to sit behind the cash register and just say to the next black guy who comes up "hey, you got some white ancestry?") though I've also had fun with it when I'm in the mood. I look a little less Asian than my siblings, probably because I'm taller and have a big old caucasian nose from my mom. I'm still surprised that some people don't figure out the Euro part after months of knowing me (you think my Chinese last name would be a clue).
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Post by alphamikefoxtrot on Aug 1, 2008 13:48:01 GMT -5
^
If we were playing a game of Asian or White and I didn't know your last name, I would immediately guess "white" just based on your avatar pic.
A lot of perception of EAs seem to be directly related the context they are seen in, at least in my experience.
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Post by straylight on Aug 1, 2008 16:21:03 GMT -5
Ditto. You look white in that avatar Betahat. You're just another tanned whiteboy imposter trying to hit on EA chicks here, aren't you? Shebe's got an Asian face, but the height, skin, and hair just makes her a model Eurasian. She's got her own thing going on. Then again, she could pass for an Asian looking Russian too.
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Post by agentxprovocateur on Aug 1, 2008 18:07:34 GMT -5
I do get mistaken for Russian sometimes...One time this guy yelled "privjet" (hello) to me on the street....I gotta say the German blood went far!
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Post by betahat on Aug 2, 2008 15:38:48 GMT -5
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