I&#x27;m not sure if I&#x27;m taking something out of context but if you believe sushi is a Japanese thing there are plenty of sushi restaurants all over America masquerading as Japanese sushi but actually run by Koreans or Chinese with zero formal training.<p>I know that the race of the chef is orthogonal to whether or not the sushi is good. But I&#x27;m also pretty confident that many sushi restaurants, especially in the west, are purposely being deceptive about what they claim to be representing.<p>I assumed the message above wasn&#x27;t about claiming all asians are alike. Rather it&#x27;s claiming that many people, especially non-asians can&#x27;t tell the difference and so having an asian of any background is enough to fake out most customers on those areas.