Sunday, November 4, 2007

Judge for Yourselves

This is Ivy:
This is Hui:



After reading your comments to Jen's post below, I was tempted to make the politically correct observation that most Americans think that all people of asian descent look alike -- whether they do or not. After futher examination, however, I came to the conclusion that these two women may actually look alike. What do you think?

5 comments:

cobrakaidojo said...

They do NOT look alike and my family IS stereotyping Asian women.

By the way, I am with my friend Hui Cheng and her son Kenny. They are in our ward. We are at the Halloween parade for our town. I am wearing a costume that Hui Cheng bought on clearance at Marshall's for $4 that day. I have no idea what the costume is and I think thats why it was on clearance.

cobrakaidojo said...

Jonny what exactly do you mean "same type of friends"?

janellelee said...

they do not look alike, but i for sure was not stereotyping...perhaps it is because we haven't seen ivy in 15 years...hmmm, why do we jump to the conclusion that we are being negative towards asians?? i have many asian friends and do not think they all look alike. i can tell the difference mostly, between chinese, japanese, vietnamese and sometimes korean people. i guess everyone really liked ivy and knew her and wondered if you were still friends with her. i guess not...

jenbahrens said...

Janelle as you know, we often say things in our family to elicit reactions from each other. My above comment was just a joke.

Ivy was a really nice friend. Last I heard, she was working for some big bank type company in Manhatten but I haven't spoken with her since before my mission.

Jonny said...

i still cant tell a difference.