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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (246514)	8/18/2005 7:07:39 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571068

Ted, interesting story. Just a few thoughts: - 5'11" Korean ladies are indeed rare, but becoming less rare these days. It most definitely has to do with diet compared to what Koreans ate one or two generations ago, but that's another subject. She's American so her height is not so rare whether one is of Korean ancestory or not. However, I am used to the Korean emigres in LA who were uniformly short. - Personally I find Mandarin much less jarring than Cantonese. It's interesting that you prefer Cantonese, because I can't imagine anyone outside of China (or Southeast Asia) preferring that. Its possible I have the two dialects mixed up. The one I hate is highly nasal with an almost sing song quality to it. One time I was waiting for the bus in LA and two women were speaking Chinese and after about 15 minutes I wanted to hit them because of the sounds coming out of their mouths. Good thing I am a liberal. <g> - I personally don't like to make a big deal over race and ethnicities. How are non-Asians supposed to even tell the difference between Korean, Chinese, and Japanese, much less the differences among each of these individual groups? I'll bet most Asians can't tell the difference, either. (I'd love to prove that sometime by doing a "blind taste test" with photos.) Anyway, I think those peers of yours overreacted. I can tell the major differences between the Chinese, Koreans and Japanese although the distinctions between the Chinese and Koreans are harder for me to discern than the ones between the Japanese and the other two. However, any variation or serious mixing between one or more of the races will pretty much throw me off. BTW Asians are much more prevalent in LA than they are here and probably in the OC. As a consequence, I knew nearly as many Asians as I did whites or Latinos when I lived in LA. So I probably have a degree of comfort that they might not have.......or I am just more insensitive. In any case, one or the other may have contributed to the incident in the group that I mentioned. BTW Ina, the woman in question, talks like a SF Valley girl.......so much so I thought she was from LA. Instead, she grew up here. ted