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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am Asian (100% Japanese) & while I can relate - I personally would not have a problem w/the latter but maybe would w/the first situation.

For what it’s worth, I live in SoCal + there is a large Asian population here so you may like it here better than Hawaii.

It is just as expensive though but bonus is that it never rains here.[/quote]
DP.. I'm originally from SoCal, Korean American.  I had the exact same thing happen to me, but in Japanese.  I think I was in San Diego and another case in Santa Barbara.   Granted this was decades ago, but there were still enough Koreans, Chinese, Vietnamese people in Socal for people to  not make assumptions about what type of Asian the person is.

IMO, it's ignorance and stereotyping.  There are a lot of Chinese people, a lot more than Koreans, in the DC area. So, a person assumes you are Chinese rather than any other Asian heritage.  Even so, there are also enough American born Asians in this area to not assume that the person knows how to speak Chinese.  That's the other assumption and/or stereotype -- that even if you are Chinese American, a child would know what xiexie means.

No one says to a white person "danke shon", as if they think all white people know what thank you means in German.

It is annoying.  It's a bit like the "but where are you *really*" from shtick. I get that, too.    Maybe by our grand kids' ages this won't be an issue.

As an aside, dam! I miss CA weather.[/quote]

Do you think the vast majority of white people know any words in an Asian language? Much like few even know German words, or how to spell them correctly, ahem. Nobody is perfect. Mistakes will be made. [/quote]

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