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Question: What nationality was your first Asian friend?
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Japanese
 
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Chinese and Taiwanese
 
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Korean
 
#4
Vietnamese
 
#5
Mongolian
 
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Thai
 
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Laotian
 
#8
Cambodian
 
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Malaysian
 
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Singaporean
 
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Indonesia
 
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Bruneian
 
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Indian
 
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Pakistani
 
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Bangladeshi
 
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Sri Lankan
 
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Burmese
 
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Filipino
 
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« on: May 23, 2011, 12:11:59 AM »

What nationality was your first Asian friend?
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« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2011, 12:19:11 AM »

I actually knew and hung out with an Indian kid in high school in North Dakota. Like one of three non-whites in my graduating class, LOL.

I'm not sure of the next one, his last name was "Yang" and his first name was really French. Vietnamese then? "Yang" doesn't sound very Hmong.
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« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2011, 12:19:35 AM »

Chinese... technically from Hong Kong... which wasn't technically China then Tongue
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« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2011, 12:25:19 AM »

Luckily I lived in a place where meeting and befriending an Asian person was not an uncommon or particularly noteworthy occurrence, so I don't remember.
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« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2011, 12:26:44 AM »

     Korean. For some reason I knew many more Korean people than Chinese people until I was 15 or so.
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« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2011, 12:26:58 AM »

Chinese.
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« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2011, 12:55:28 AM »

Pakistani. That, coincidently, turned out to be my best friend.
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« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2011, 01:02:37 AM »

Do workers in a local Chinese Food Restaurant count as "Asian Friends" ?

Other than that I don't know any Asians here, except if you count Turks as Asians ... Tongue
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« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2011, 01:06:46 AM »

Chinese.  His grandparents were diehard KMT supporters and evangelical Protestants and fled when Mao took over.  Very, very right wing family, though I didn't know it at the time.
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« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2011, 01:59:53 AM »

The friends I've had longer than I can remember are Bangladeshi, so I suppose that would be the answer.

I'm not sure of the next one, his last name was "Yang" and his first name was really French. Vietnamese then? "Yang" doesn't sound very Hmong.

Yang is almost certainly Chinese.
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« Reply #10 on: May 23, 2011, 02:07:07 AM »

One of my earliest childhood friends was either 1/4 or 1/2 Japanese so I went with that.

I had a good Indian friend in elementary school. Bit of a douche nowadays though.
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« Reply #11 on: May 23, 2011, 02:28:31 AM »

Korean.  A wealthy young man who in the late eighties was the first person I met who talked openly and often about prostitutes.  Wonderful fellow.  He used to say that he couldn't study properly unless he was using a pretty girl's buttocks as a reading stand.
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« Reply #12 on: May 23, 2011, 02:36:36 AM »

Korean. His parents seemed to object to me and my best friend, a Puerto Rican. He mentioned that he was from the "Good Korea" so I have to assume the North.
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« Reply #13 on: May 23, 2011, 02:38:09 AM »

Korean and he was more than a friend. Wink
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« Reply #14 on: May 23, 2011, 04:41:31 AM »

I actually knew and hung out with an Indian kid in high school in North Dakota. Like one of three non-whites in my graduating class, LOL.

I'm not sure of the next one, his last name was "Yang" and his first name was really French. Vietnamese then? "Yang" doesn't sound very Hmong.

There are many half-half Vietnamese/Chinese people in this world.

I note that there is no option for not having any Asian friends (which would be rare given this forum's demographic, but still).
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« Reply #15 on: May 23, 2011, 04:48:18 AM »

Mere days after meeting my new 'suite-mate', the randy, debauched Korean, I met my next two Asian friends - a very amusing moderately wealthy Thai (Thai-chinese) snob who was always crashing his car for no apparent reason, and a very wealthy Indonesian poon-hound whose nickname was 'Bootie' (actually short for his real name - Budiasa), who drove a Porsche 928.  I had to drive them around in their cars because the one fellow crashed so incessantly, and the Bootie was always moderately tipsy.

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« Reply #16 on: May 23, 2011, 09:55:40 AM »

I didn't make any non-white friends until middle school, I think. Probably Chinese or Indian.
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« Reply #17 on: May 23, 2011, 10:23:02 AM »

Korean.  My mom's best friend and business partner had a niece and nephew adopted from Korea that were around the same age as me and my sister...
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« Reply #18 on: May 23, 2011, 10:30:07 AM »

I didn't make any non-white friends until middle school, I think. Probably Chinese or Indian.

Jesus, you can remember 'middle school'?  I can't remember anything before college.  How old are you Boris?
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« Reply #19 on: May 23, 2011, 10:33:20 AM »

Crap; I voted Chinese/Taiwanese (I had a good friend starting in fourth grade, who later became my best friend, who was Han Chinese but of Taiwanese extraction), but then I realized I had a friend at my first elementary school who was Southeast Asian.  I'm not sure where in Southeast Asia his family was from.  I think he may've been Laotian.
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« Reply #20 on: May 23, 2011, 10:38:46 AM »

Korean
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« Reply #21 on: May 23, 2011, 10:45:01 AM »

I have a half Korean, half Hispanic friend.
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« Reply #22 on: May 23, 2011, 10:49:36 AM »

Korean.

Korean and he was more than a friend. Wink

ooh scandalous.
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« Reply #23 on: May 23, 2011, 11:09:40 AM »

Iranians don't count, I see. So that rules out nursery days. Nor do Turks and Palestinians count, so primary school is out too. Probably Sri Lankan or Indian or Pakistani, depending on whether we count the Sri Lankan girl as close enough to count as a friend, the German-named son of a German father and Indian mother as a German, and I'm not forgetting someone or getting the order of things wrong.
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« Reply #24 on: May 23, 2011, 11:29:36 AM »

First Asian friend? I have no idea who my first Asian friend was. Through elementary and middle school my Asian friends were all Hmong, though, which makes answering this question somewhat difficult. I voted Laotian, but it could just have easily been Vietnam or Thailand.
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