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**SHpuntik** · 04-12-2012, 06:21 AM

Brazil is the country with the biggest japanese diaspora in the world. Now, back in the day and unlike Peru, japs were the biggest asian community in Brazil by far (other asian peoples were basically unknown). Now, this affected the perception of asians brazilians have, hence, any people who look east asian (to be 100% clear: who has chinky eyes) is called japanese. Something similar (but on the inverse) happpens in Peru: Any person who looks asian is called 'chino' here regardless of origins. Our former president Alberto Fujimori (who's of japanese straction, in fact some even claim he was born in Japan) was called Chino too.

Here is his song:

04-12-2012, 06:21 AM	#3
SHpuntik Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 608 Senior Member	Brazil is the country with the biggest japanese diaspora in the world. Now, back in the day and unlike Peru, japs were the biggest asian community in Brazil by far (other asian peoples were basically unknown). Now, this affected the perception of asians brazilians have, hence, any people who look east asian (to be 100% clear: who has chinky eyes) is called japanese. Something similar (but on the inverse) happpens in Peru: Any person who looks asian is called 'chino' here regardless of origins. Our former president Alberto Fujimori (who's of japanese straction, in fact some even claim he was born in Japan) was called Chino too. Here is his song:
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