any asian paintballers?

[pbzmag]

I'm part Filipino and Spanish. Well more like 1/4 Spanish or less, I really don't know. People mistake me for chinese. I even had a few older chinese elders who walked up to me and started to talk chinese to me. I really don't have the "typical" filipino look. I just consider myself an American.

pbzmag

[Gotenks]

most people think I'm mexican... then I tell them I'm filipino... (actually they think I'm mexican when I have facial hair, when I'm clean shaven I look asian)

Then they get to know me, and get to know my personality. That's when they call me "twinkie" yellow on the outside, but white on the inside!

just kidding, but I'm 100% american... while I was not born in the 50 states... I was born on a U.S. Air Force base in Angeles City of the Philippines.

hootie hoo?

[Fanatic]

most people think I'm mexican... then I tell them I'm filipino... (actually they think I'm mexican when I have facial hair, when I'm clean shaven I look asian)

i really hate it when this happens...do i got to shave all the time for people to realize that im azian....geesh!!

im stuck here in TN for the time being and it just chaps the hide when i get "hola" and "gracias" when i buy gas..

oh why...why me...damn facial hair!!

and if i do shave...i have to get a parents consent to buy beer!!--no not really, i just get carded all the time....and even in the same place..

maybe i should just wear one of them pointet Raiden hats or something..hehe

But im Filipino to the bone!!

[MantisMag]

welcome seeker.

while all poor immigrants do start with menial jobs in this way i find it interesting that they all found specific jobs. with the chinese it was the railroad or you worked in a chinatown at a restaurant or laundry often with family that came over before you. i think thie irish immigrants ended up in factories (textile mills?). the mexicans ended up being migratory farm workers, some still do.

[Gotenks]

Originally posted by EMAGfanatic


i really hate it when this happens...do i got to shave all the time for people to realize that im azian....geesh!!

im stuck here in TN for the time being and it just chaps the hide when i get "hola" and "gracias" when i buy gas..

oh why...why me...damn facial hair!!

and if i do shave...i have to get a parents consent to buy beer!!--no not really, i just get carded all the time....and even in the same place..

maybe i should just wear one of them pointet Raiden hats or something..hehe

But im Filipino to the bone!!

OMG HAHAHA!!

Yeah that happens to me too. Just the other day, I bought a newspaper from a homeless man on the street median. I gave him 2 extra dollars for the troubles, and what do I get... "gracias" DANG IT I DONT SPEAK SPANISH!! next time say xhi xhi ni! (j/k)

but I can shave and still look older.... go me!

[Seeker of Truth]

Thanx for the heads up Mantismag

I am a halfie too, and from what i have read in this thread there seem to be some similarities to the Asian community over there as there are here in UK.

Interesting tho over here Asian population group is defined as Indian and Pakistani people. Chinese, Vietnamese and other similar groups are "defined" as Oriental.

I see myself as more chinese tho just through conditioning from living in Uk.

[FutureMagOwner]

Originally posted by EMAGfanatic
maybe i should just wear one of them pointet Raiden hats or something..hehe

i wonder where you get one of them hats they do look kinda cool. anyway my aunt is asian somehow(blood relation too) however im german russian irish and a little itallian(another aunt who is blood related is itallian its weird)

[graycie]

Originally posted by Seeker of Truth
Interesting tho over here Asian population group is defined as Indian and Pakistani people. Chinese, Vietnamese and other similar groups are "defined" as Oriental.

Usually on forms that have a selection of what ethinc background the choice is "Asian/Pacific Islander"

[MantisMag]

Originally posted by FutureMagOwner


i wonder where you get one of them hats they do look kinda cool.

gift shops in chinatown.

[Fanatic]

ok this is just getting out of hand...

as i posted before i am living temporarily in TN.
and as posted before, the problems with mistaken identity..

well lets just top that shall we..

as any asian would know...when your out of soy sauce...you cant cook diddly squat..

i went to a local asian food mart and purchased my fav silver swan brand..got to the counter and to my surprise..i hear "dos dollars and diez cents!!!" coming from a fairly oriental fellow

i looked back at asked if he was kidding

what the hell!! we cant even tell the difference from our own kind!!

AHHH!!

[MantisMag]

Originally posted by MantisMag
i've been asked if i was korean, by a korean. i've been asked if i was vietnamese, fillipino, even spanish one time by a vietnamese guy .

yup got the same problem. and mexican guys always ask me if i speak spanish while i'm working. but i work in retail so i thought they just did that to everybody. think it's because i'm asian and asian looks like spanish?