ASIAN FACTS (let's break the stereotypes)

                                                   List of facts about Asia



 -  Not all asians eat dog/cat meat. China does eat dog/cat meat, but Japan doesn't eat any dogs or cats. Most ingredients found in Japanese food are raw fish, rice and seaweed. As for South Korea, it's only the old people that have this tradition of eating cat/dog meat. New generations in Korea are against it. Most young people in Korea own a cat or dog as pets. 

- Not all asians write with symbols. And not all asians have same writting. China uses symbols that represents something. One symbol means something (tree, sea, mountain etc...). Koreans use a korean alphabet (hangul) with LETTERS that represents SOUNDS. A korean letter doesn't have a meaning, unlike chinese symbols/ideogramms, but has a sound. Also, Korean letters have less strokes than chinese symbols, thus why Korean alphabet is easy to remember and to write.  As for Japanese, even though they borrowed kanji (symbols) from Chinese writting, they also use their own alphabets (hiragana and katakana) that is read in SYLLABICS. (KA KI KU KE KO, NA NI NU NE NO....)  Thai people, also have their own writting, that don't look like chinese symbols at all, thai writting looks almost like Indian writting. 

As for the vietnamese people, they use the same letters as Western world (latin alphabet).

- The Japanese language doesn't sound like "ching chang chong", those sounds are closer to Chinese language. The nasal sounds (ing, ang, ong) DO NOT EXIST in Japanese language. Most japanese words end with a vowel. Japanese language contains easy sounds like KA KI KU KO, A, I,  U,  E,  O,  unlike chinese that has sounds we don't have in western languages. Also chinese has tones. Japanese doesn't. Thus why Japanese is easier to pronounce than Chinese. Even for the writting part, chinese and japanese is different. Despite Japanese borrowing chinese characters, A chinese person who reads a Japanese text or the otherway around, won't understand whats written. Example, the word 好  in chinese means "Good".  But in Japanese it means "To like"  ( 好き ).   Also, a ideogramm/symbol that is the same in japanese and chinese, won't be pronounced the same. Like the symbol for "house" (or home), is pronounced "ie" in Japanese but pronounced "Jia" in Chinese. 

- In western world, people believe the zodiac astrological signs make someone's personality. In Asia, they believe the blood type makes someone's personality.

- Korean names and Japanese names are different. Both start with the family name, and put the first name after the family name. But, Korean names contains always 3 SYLLABS. The Japanese names don't have this syllab rule. Example :   Park Soo Yeon is 3 syllabs, then it is a Korean name. Yamamoto Yumi has more than 3 syllabs, then it is a Japanese name. The last name always come FIRST, before the first name. So Yamamoto is the last name, and Yumi is the first name. In Korean names, the last name also comes first, but only contains ONE syllab. The first name comes after, and contains TWO syllabs. Example :  Kim So Yeon. Kim is the last name because it comes first and only contain one syllab. So Yeon is the first name because it comes after Kim and contains TWO syllabs. Kim is the last name and So Yeon is the first name, then.


- Asian movies aren't only about martial arts and fight. There is also sad asian movies, love/romance asian movies etc just like western movies. Asians are mostly gifted in making horror movies (ringu, the eye etc...). Most American horror movies are actually remakes of Asian horror movies (The Ring, The Grudge etc...) 


- Japan has the lowest crime/murder rate. But the highest suicide rate. The murder rate is really low. You have more risks to die from earthquake in Japan, than from a murder. 


- Not all asians look alike. In Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Philippines, Cambodia etc...) they tend to have darker skin tone, and double-eyelids.  In Northeast Asia (Japan, Korea, China), they tend to have pale skin, and single-eyelids. You can then easily make a difference between a Korean person and a Vietnamese person, for example. 


This is the end of my post. Feel free to tell me if I forgot some stuffs.