Originally Posted by RawAlex

my girlfriend is chinese. Not all chinese people are even close to looking alike (china is VERY large). There is much mixing and whatnot near the borders. Plus you have to remember that there is chinese from china, chinese from Taiwan, chinese from Hong Kong... there are some differences.

I have friends in all groups... cambodian, vietnamese, thai, korean, and a number like Odie, mixes of this and that. They often can't tell themselves apart!

Japanese and filipino are usually pretty easy to spot as they have fairly destinctive features, generation after generation on island nations tends to bring out strong traits. Koreans and thais for the most part have fairly strong features that can be spotted, but not all the time.

Alex