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JJK1
Joined: 22 May 2006
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| peony wrote: |
i've always been told from koreans in korea that i am obviously a korean-american that they could tell within minutes of seeing me
they say its the way i dress, my hair, the way i walk and hold myself
i guess there's bound to be some differences due to culture
but i also believe that diet does indeed play a part, i grew up drinking milk and eating loads of dairy products, i have a bigger bone structure and wider shoulders than girls in korea, longer limbs etc. |
Word up kyopo sista.
Usually the easiest ways to tell apart kyopos are by their complexion. Most kyopos are tanned, or atleast not pale white. Of course the style is usually a dead giveaway. Also one thing I noticed is that kyopos look a lot older than their age. |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| crazylemongirl wrote: |
The clothes are different and so is the way they carry themselves.
The girls have more poom-poom and muscle tone.
The boys have bigger muscles.
In short they look like the spent their childhoods running around outside intsead of hunched over a desk in a hogwon. You can even see it sometimes amongst the yu-hak-seang. |
Poom-poom? I don't know what it means but I want it. |
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rothkowitz
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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Poom-poom sounds good.
People are bound to seem different on more than just a style or fashion level.
Whatever culture one has grown up in,this leaves a kind of after-image in the way that we hold ourselves,act etc.For example,Westerners maintain a personal space thing in public,whereas Koreans often don't.It bugs the heck out of me, but not them.
I asked a Korean co-worker why Koreans don't apologise when they bump into someone.She replied that Koreans feel as if they already have. 
It seems fair to say that a Kyopo is going to seem different on some subtle levels that can only be indirecty pointed out.
On the other hand has anybody been told they seem more Asian?(I'm Western)I visited a friend in Melbourne and his Kiwi-Chinese gf said that(visited them with my Korean gf,I had been in Korea 3 years).I'm still a little confused by what she meant. |
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pocketfluff
Joined: 30 May 2006
Location: Washington, DC (school) and Los Angeles, CA (home)
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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| JJK1 wrote: |
| Also one thing I noticed is that kyopos look a lot older than their age. |
Hehe, I'll never forget when I visited Korea for the first time and one of my cousins, who is 3 years older than me, bowed when he met me.
I also agree with the build (I was a competitive swimmer most of my life) and the complexion bit.
I must have a bit of an American accent when I speak Korean, as well. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| One part of it is in how people walk. Koreans spend a lot more time in slippers (and shoes that are smashed down in the back) and as a result many of them kind of shuffle when they walk. I tend to lose a slipper when I go down stairs. |
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Zoidberg
Joined: 29 Mar 2006
Location: Somewhere too hot for my delicate marine constitution
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Lao Wai wrote: |
| That being said, I've had this conversation with Chinese-Canadian friends of mine. We live in Hong Kong. My friends are full Chinese ethnicity, yet the locals in Hong Kong always speak to them in English before my friends even open their mouths. My friends said that 9 times out of 10, the locals can tell they're 'foreigners'. This can't be just due to the obvious things like hairstyles, because my Chinese-Canadian friends all have long, straight, black hair. I'm thinking that sometimes there are other things like the way we carry ourselves, that are somewhat intangible. |
My wife reckons she (and most other Hong Kong people) can tell mainland chinese from Hong Kong people. She can't tell me what it is though, just that they look different.
I have noticed the kind of thing the OP is talking about here in Australia, where asian people who grew up in here have a general "difference" from recent immigrants. Not just how they speak, but things like facial expressions, how they carry themselves. There is a general air of "Australianness" about them that recent immigrants do not have (obviously, since they are Australian). The culture people grow up in leaves marks on them, it doesn't matter so much where their parents are from, unless they grow up in a very insular community. |
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