<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=141836.msg6540841#msg6540841">Quote from: Haibane on 05-07-2012, 14:29:39</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Yes. To an African, Asians are white. To <em>me</em> they are white (as opposed to black). I often hear Japanese referred to as 'whites'.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Hmm, I've never heard that before.  (I was born and am living in the US).  For me, Asians are Asians, but if they were a color, they would be yellow (and it would be used in a derogatory way, kind of like calling an Asian "slanty" for their eyes).<br/><br/>But I've had a African-American friend say that<em>I</em>was black.  (I look Indian, basically brown Caucasian.)  When I asked how he thought I was black, his answer was, "Well, you ain't white."<br/><br/>So to<em>you</em>, Asians are white?  Are you black or white or Asian?<br/><br/>I don't know any Asians (Japanese or otherwise) who would refer to themselves as white.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">BTW, that guy is almost certainly a tourist. No one that crass should live in Monaco ;)<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>He could hang out with this guy (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=141836.msg6465817#msg6465817).<br/>