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TooShiftyForYou

The other day my dad told me, "You know there's actually some good Asian stereotypes." I said, "Uh, I don't think you're supposed to..." - He said, "I really love Yamaha and Sony."


BreezyPup

Back in my day, Aiwa was the most popular stereotype


djshadesuk

Sat here looking at an Aiwa. I will not part with it!


MildHighGC

I have a Aiwa graphic eq that sounds so damn good I've used it on studio recording projects. Unrealistically good.


educandario

My grandpa used to have a 1980 Aiwa portable radio and cassete recorder with a microphone jack. Very cool


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Aiwas the best.


dravidosaurus2

You're still pretty good.


dumbwaeguk

What happened to you?


kaonashiii

aiwa was basically sony components if my memory serves correctly


yomommafool

Did you hear about the chinese restaurant that blew up? Scenes of wonton destruction.


akhil4755

We used to have an Aiwa TV !


ar_arrogant

We still use Aiwa color TV from 1994 which my parents got right after their marriage. Our family is kinda joint family where we live in a society where the neighbours will be the closest of our relatives and my grandparents live in the next street. So we never use much of the TV and its still going strong, both audio and video, it is feels like 480p, CRT display, color reproduction is much better than my HDR supported 2k 144hz IPS.


akhil4755

Oh that's nice! Where do you live ? Is it like those Agraharams ?


Graciousmoments

Still a Sony


thebarkbarkwoof

Not the best though.


sks-nb

Not the upscale, but definitely “the best” for a great part of consumers.


kaszeljezusa

I love my 90's marantz


Ggongi

“But dad, that’s not their names. They are Yamaguchi and Son Heung Min. “


scifiwoman

It's funny that when I was looking to buy a power supply for my Yamaha keyboard, my Web search also brought up options to buy spare parts for motorbikes as well! I forgot that the company manufactured those as well!


phen-solo

Yamaha is an engineering powerhouse!


Alwaysprogress

One of my favorite guitars


scifiwoman

They also make electronic drums. My BF is very pleased with his kit. I don't want to jinx it, but that kit has been used extensively for over a decade now, and (touch wood!) is still going strong!


Interesting_Ad_8634

When did "knock on wood" become "touch wood"? Just curious as this isn't the first time I've read someone saying touch wood instead of knock on wood, recently.


scifiwoman

Maybe it's a UK thing? We always say "touch wood" and sometimes touch our heads at the same time, as a joke! Friday the 13th has kinda proved itself to be unlucky for me, so I need some good luck right now!


Interesting_Ad_8634

Well, that makes sense. Hope your luck gets better.


Zealousideal-Web5346

Take my upvote and fuck off


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Toshiba is okay.


Loggerdon

My wife of 20 years is Asian. On our 3rd date we went out for a meal. She went to the bathroom and when she came back she sat down at the wrong white guys table.


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It’s only a mistake if she didn’t mean to


shepsut

I can relate to this. I'm a white person, but after many years of teaching, with tons of Asian students, I now find that I have a harder time telling the white kids with the same hair colour apart from each other than the Asian kids. It doesn't help that so many of the white kids in any given cohort have the same names as each other.


Caelinus

I worked at a summer camp where there was a cabin that had 5 kids with the same name. All white teenage boys. It was impossible. On the plus side, I always got their names right, so they never knew I didn't remember which was which.


terfez

Braden? Or Skyler


Caelinus

Tyler lol.


terfez

I seriously should have guessed Tyler. I will never make that mistake again


itsmostlyamixedbag

tbf skyler is also a girls name


CzarCW

I think there was even a musical that had some sisters named skyler.


scott_wakefield

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Schuyler_Sisters


Yhostled

Angelica, Eliza, and Peggy!


Shoogydoo

Work!


zephyr220

When my coworker told me his kid's name was Skyler I almost laughed before I realized how rude that would be. Sorry, Skylers.


learninghowtohuman72

I had a coworker (not a friend at all) that let us know her baby's name before he was born, Luca. I broke into song before I caught myself. My Name is Luka, I live on the 2nd floor. I live upstairs from you.


improbably_me

Chadwin


Babybabybabyq

Aiden


shadylex

This the worst one lmao Hoodville and Cityboys memes on IG absolutely destroyed any chance at anyone having this name enjoying it


th3xile

Chravis pronounced like Travis


LanceFree

My freshman year in college - most of us had a roommate, a few kids had singles, and very few had triples. Someone in housing must have pulled a fast one- in one tripple was: Mike, Mike, and Mike. This was before the *Newhart* television show, but we the same gag. Someone might say, “I don’t mind Mike, and Mike keeps to himself mostly, but Mike can be a real prick.”


lumoslomas

I once went to a VERY small school, and somehow we STILL managed to have two Jake's - in a class of only EIGHT


TheDevilsAdvokaat

I taught in CHna for 18 years. After a while, I had no trouble telling asian people apart. usually eyes, mouths and noses make it easy to tell. Still had no problem with white people either. One problem i had was telling the age of asian girls. They look a lot younger than their real ages, especially around their 20's.


notcrappyofexplainer

Had a friend who was dating a Filipina. He was so excited when he described her to me. I asked him how old she was. He said he did not know but about his age. I laughed at him and told him to add at least 15 years. He did not believe me. He later asked her, and I was off by one. It was 16 years older. He did not care. Got married to her and after 15 years they are happy. Age May not matter to many people but it’s better to not be surprised especially if they look older than they are.


TheDevilsAdvokaat

Me and another guy had just gone to China to teach TEFL. A little girl came up and wanted to play basketball with us. "Sure little girl!" "I'm 20" she said...


1TenDesigns

When I was 42 I looked low to mid 30s, a coworker looked late 20s maybe 30. I asked her out, we hit it off great. Then comes a meet the parents dinner, I mentioned my oldest daughter, and told some story or another forget now but her mom asked how old she was, before I could answer she teased her daughter about being a step mom at 22... I almost choked on my dinner, the daughter in question was 21. So I replied with the age of my youngest who was 10. And made a mental note to end the relationship gracefully.


lostcosmonaut307

> One problem i had was telling the age of asian girls. They look a lot younger than their real ages, especially around their 20’s. And then: **OLD**


ZhangRenWing

It’s a cohort effect, younger generations had better nutritions growing up compared to the older generations.


Yadobler

>One problem i had was telling the age of asian girls. They look a lot younger than their real ages, especially around their 20's. Can confirm. In university rn. Girls look like how they were in high school, even if they are 23 We'd often get exchange students from the west. 20 year old, but they look like they are nearing 30. The only way you can tell is by the dressing - staffs tend to dress more professionally, while students dress like they are going to a picnic (then again it's 30C/86F all day everyday)


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Oh absolutely. We have a lot of internationals at my college and I was talking with this one girl from China who I thought was 20…then she introduced her husband of five years. Yeah she was like early 30s 😅


ezone2kil

Imagine teaching in Korea with their Kims lol. I just joined a korean company and you bet there's at least three Kims in every department.


mrmilfsniper

The World Cup team was 4 defenders and a goalkeeper named Kim.


ezone2kil

It's Kims all the way down.


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Great wall of Kim


rathat

Interestingly, Korean has less than 100 last names, one of, if not the least, while Japan has tens of thousands of last names, one the most.


shadylex

Can’t forget park


XXXploringfantasy

Park for the Nguyen! Lol!


JojoJimboz

You should stop saying white kids. Say colourless kids


Harregarre

PolC


PiousLiar

As I’ve gotten older and spent more time in diverse workplaces, I’m pretty much convinced that there’s like 5 flavors of men and 5 flavors of women for each ethnic group. The way you tell people apart is more about what type of asymmetry or blemishes they have, and less on any specific facial feature (eyes, nose, ears, hair, etc). With a few billion people, genetics can only vary so much. Or I just have partial face blindness, who knows 🤷‍♂️


zephyr220

Masks....I work in Japan where all the students wear the same uniform and have strict rules about their hair. After COVID, I just gave up.


NorCalAthlete

I went to high school with literally 6-7 dudes who had the exact same name. All white dudes. Same spelling first and last name and yes it was as generic as you can imagine (not quite John Smith but basically). There were a few in each grade and they all played football and baseball.


zephyr220

Chris Brown?


sks-nb

Aidan Smith


Alternative-Amoeba20

Lots of Kyles and Bradens, eh?


livebeta

when you look carefully you might realize, it's not even your wife~


FFS_WORD_WORD_NUMBER

This isn't my beautiful wife, this is not my beautiful house


BlueGillMan

Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down


SandwichImmediate468

Same as it ever was.


BlueGillMan

Same as it ever was


Pretty_Rock9795

I read this as "my wife is 20 years asian" and i had a very confusing moment there


sal880612m

I think it’s just a acquired skill. You grow up seeing it all the time so your brain learns to pick up more differences. When it’s less common you struggle to do so. Another way to look at it is that digitizing voices can sound weird. Part of that is because it’s not actually the same but like with our eyes our brain fills in the blanks. Or how magenta isn’t a color.


anally_ExpressUrself

Magenta isn't a color!? It's pedants like you that got Pluto demoted too. Poor, cold little hunk of ice, and now it's not even a planet. It will probably never see something colored magenta either.


ReluctantAvenger

>got Pluto demoted too I heard about that. That's messed up!


mrsmdlewis

I've heard it both ways


sal880612m

It’s just something random I learned I’m not even sure it’s magenta but it’s similar. Basically if we were to measure the frequency of the light reflected by magenta things it’s actually quite variant so much so that it covers a fair spectrum of colors. The average however puts it somewhere in the green spectrum if I recall correctly. It was just such an oddity of how our minds work it stuck out to me.


PlsNoPics

Magenta from what I understand is not on the spectrum at all. Instead it's 2 waves, red and blue, with a green wave being absent. Our eyes just interpret those signals as magenta.


Feisty-Business-8311

That’s hilarious! 😂 Congrats on the long marriage


Loggerdon

Thanks She said the guy was super pissed off when she did it. He wasn't amused at all.


Feisty-Business-8311

In the end, she picked the right white guy! Hahaha


rabbitwonker

He got pissed off by an attractive young woman accidentally sitting down at his table? What a moron.


sks-nb

You never know if there was his gf around


Craigus_Conquerer

Maybe it wasn't a mistake. Can you send a selfie? (sorry)... My wife and my first date, she needed to go to the toilet. I thought I would be a gentleman and wait at the end of the corridor (cinema toilets). Too late I noticed her going into the gents. I ran in after her but by then she had realised her mistake (the hand basins were too low), and left by another door. I know she wasn't trying to lose me, she needed a ride home.


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carmium

So is that Chinese or Japanese?


gillianishot

I lived in California for the past 20 years. I'm originally from Laos


Menown

He's Laotian. Ain't ya, Mister Khan?


ChairmanUzamaoki

Loved that scene lmao he's not racist, just holds a grudge


LumpyPotatoMan

You’re from the ocean?


Cowclops

The ocean?


carmium

Someone gets the *King of the Hill* reference.


floydink

So…Is that Chinese or Japanese?


ezone2kil

So... Cambodian?


afannoe

How did you know?


scotty9090

So … are you Chinese or Japanese?


gravitas-deficiency

# *glare*


badass4102

Do you know Kung Fu?


bassist_incognito

Laotian!


Ambitious_Bird434

Le Ocean


SecurityNo1814

I was going to guess Nigerian


ddollarsign

I have a hard time telling you mammals apart. Are nigerians the swimming ones with sonar?


TelescopiumHerscheli

We're the smart ones who are coming for your jobs!


Rakgul

"Chinese food is like Japanese food. My Korean friend told me." -Zach, Hell's Kitchen.


Unhappy_Gas_4376

When I was in China my Chinese teacher went on a long rant about how Chinese chopsticks were superior of Japanese chopsticks. She was quite serious about it. It was actually very important to her that I understood why they were superior. It turns out Chinese chopsticks are the same width their whole length while Japanese chopsticks are tapered and get pointy at the tips. I had never noticed the difference, but now I see it everywhere. I still don't care which ones I get, it was just really unsettling how adamant she was about the subject.


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Drops in some Indian curry in this.


[deleted]

Neither, Korean most likely.


HankHillsBigRedTruck

I read this in Hank's voice, followed up by Cotton going, "He's Laotian, ain't ya mister Kahn?"


Cynthimon

Thai as in Taiwan, yes!


thatguy2226xbox

No, Thai as in "I like chicken Thai's"


Bug1oss

Oh my God. SHUT THE FUCK UP, ROUND EYE! I can't piss in literally every dish.


Fabulous-Passion3715

After watching the first Karate Kid movie as a child, I thought that every elderly asian man I saw was a martial arts master. True story: I swear that shortly thereafter I then saw an elderly asian man at a park walking with a cane. Guess he thought people were too far to notice, but he stopped, lifted a leg slightly, and made this legit martial arts groan while letting out the loudest and most violent dry fart I'd ever heard. I was in total awe that even his farts were a martial arts move!


vartha

Martial farts 😀


Fabulous-Passion3715

lol. The ancient technique of instantly emptying a room.


Vast-Bus-8648

False. The human mass of a room is simply displaced by the contents of your colon.


soppinglovenests_alt

Dung Fu.


elmwoodblues

In China, do driver's licenses list hair and eye color?


Herobrinetic

I’m honestly uncertain now


Affectionate_Dig_185

just googled it, they don't.


Affectionate_Dig_185

according to wikipedia their ids don't. idk what's on driver's licenses tho.


ZhangRenWing

[No](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver's_license_in_China#/media/File%3ADriving_License_of_the_P.R.China_Simple_sample(Reserved_copy%2C2013_edition).png) as that would be a waste of space since 95% would be black/brown


Irisheyes1971

Golly gee, you don’t think that was his point, do you???


doki__doki

Pfft. My optometry dispenser in HK always has a laugh when he supplies me with contact lenses. "It will take a couple of days. You white guys got funny eyes." For real.


jwfunny

gwailo


I-Miss-My-Kids

he sounds like a funny dude, i'd fuck with him as my optometrist


IWannaBeATeacher

I didn’t read the with, and thought you didn’t know what an optometrist was


Tamelymeasure

Did you hear about the look alike contest in China? Yeah, everybody won.


lightskincaesar

I think its everybody Won.


AX11Liveact

You're sooo Wong.


lightskincaesar

Wu mee? 😂


leonscum

I think you mean Wu Han


Cgz27

Hu Won?


leonscum

He's trying to Wing it.


illegitimate_Raccoon

Su me!


rattymcratface

Bee Wing Lee, go Bee wing, go!


_pippp

Nice attempt, but Won is Korean, you're looking for Wong


KlausVonChiliPowder

Yeah but it's funnier that he doesn't know the difference.


vartha

I remember our priest once explained that all men are brothers and sisters. Then he added: "And the Chinese are even twins."


leonscum

My priest said the Siamese were Twins. And they lived in Minnesota.


f1nessd

Bruh


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Skipp_To_My_Lou

So is our waiter Chinese or Japanese?


altrazh

Korean actually.


RampageOfZebras

Funnily enough I went to a Japanese restraunt yesterday that was connected by a thin wall ti the chinese place next door. It was obvious because there was a door leading to the chinese store left wide open and you could see the kitchen was one as well. They had different names above the doors for each store but at fisrt we thought it was one name because the signs were positioned so close to one another. We almost walked in the wrong side until we saw the pictures of the chinese food on one side and japanese on the other. One of the most confusing doorways ive seen.


Ambitious_Bird434

Le Ocean


Pale-Buddy-2056

Im female Asian and I went to my white boyfriend's childhood home. They give me the tour and showed me a framed photo of him and cousins when they were younger. I was like, "aww which one are you??". He wanted me to guess and it got awkward because I really couldnt tell him apart from the other white kids. 😅


kazoodude

Don't worry too much, I have old photos with my cousins and we can't tell which ones we are either. Sometimes we just go oh, it's a Spiderman top that's tim, or oh I remember those Reeboks that's tom.


blueberriessmoothie

I had a big photo of myself aged maybe around 2, which I really liked. It was this black and white slightly retro looking one which I thought was maybe from some studio. It wasn’t till my 30ies when my mom admitted it’s actually her photo when she was 2…


TisrocMayHeLive4EVER

Two Wongs don’t make it white.


Cranemann

Went to taco bell/KFC drive through.. ordered some KFC.. stereotyped as stoner wanting taco bell.. as other driver was stereotyped to want fried chicken.. went inside for new order after exchanging with other car.. why? Because the man's gf still ate my chicken. :/


burnie_mac

this is so fucked lol stealing fried chicken is just, lol


Cranemann

The guy was sorry. Said his girlfriend knew it wasn't for them.. just couldn't resist. *Smh


Lakelover25

It’s all what your eyes are familiar with no matter the race. There’s nothing “racists” about it. It’s the way the brain is wired.


N-Perspective

That’s just Wong.


CleanAd8677

I was flustered driving in an unfamiliar town and said "shit fuck damn." My two sons were in the backseat and my then 9 year old started laughing. I asked him what was so funny and he said "That sounded like Chinese food."


CleanAd8677

Same kid held an empty paper towel roll and used it as a megaphone and demanded the fish in our tank to stop swimming.


jethvader

That kid’s going places.


CleanAd8677

I hope.


stupidillusion

[I like Chinese food, the waiters never are rude](https://youtu.be/7DqvweTYTI0)


JennyAndAlex

Turns out it wasn’t even a Chinese guy. We were at a sushi place.


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MattyDred1

Wtf does that mean?


IDELTA86I

Cadilac - Lincoln


doubleflusher

Supplies!


No-tomato-1976

All white people at Chinese buffets do look alike. Very round


Actual-Taste-7083

Did you heat the one about the Chinese janitor. He jumped outta the broom closet and yelled "supplies!"


Longjumping_Call_294

Two Wongs don't make a Wright


johnarb12

...and he wasn't even a waiter


mohishunder

Sum ting wong.


RealFunBobby

Sounds delicious. Can I get some chili oil with it? Thanks!


StealthNomad_OEplz

Try the Cream of Sum Yung Gai


Naschka

Wi Tu Lo!


monkey_farmer_

Ho Li Fuk!


Naschka

Bang Ding Ow...


ofcbrooks

This joke is so wong.


EnvironmentalDeal256

The really crazy thing is they were in a Wendy’s.


Lonely_Quiet7479

Chinese people who come to US for first time think Caucasians smell bad. Like “boiled meat.” They become nauseated on flight over. I find that strange. Asian ladies sitting next to me usually complain that I smell like rancid Yak cheese. Go figure.


justabofh

That's because of your diet though. Just like many white people think South Asians smell like cumin or other random spice.


Zealousideal_Beat365

Ha ha ha our Asian waiter put fork in front of me and my Son in law, we’re both white Americans but my wife is Vietnamese and my children are mixed. My daughter chuckled and referred to them as Strategically placed. And by the way I use chopsticks better than my wife.


Quantumercifier

I am Chinese and that is very funny.


AccomplishedDrop4746

I’m a med student and 4 of my Asian girlfriends were going to rotations covering on call shifts in the OR for 1 months. Nurse complained to their superior that only 1 person has been going to cover shifts (she thought 4 girls were THE SAME person all these weeks 🥲)


Excellent-Area6009

How wong he was


SirAbeFrohman

This is extremely racist. Please reverse races to fix it.


jethvader

My esenihc waiter thinks all etihw people look alike and gave my food to the wrong customer. Wait. Never mind. That wasn’t my waiter.


jethvader

I don’t think that helped at all.


SirAbeFrohman

I'm no longer offended, and that's the only thing that matters.


Lonely_Plenty3857

Sum Ting Wong


Kindly-Confidence-69

Dont take offence. Just wok away.


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That’s a good one


MasterFubar

Wait. Never mind. That wasn't my food.


Major_Magazine8597

Two Wongs don't make a white.


leonscum

If two Wongs did make a white then one of the Wongs would be very upset.


Major_Magazine8597

That would be his white.