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== Real Life ==

* In the 19th century, the Filipino patriot Jose Rizal (who is himself of mixed Malay/Chinese blood) once pretended to be a Japanese in a European museum, answering questions about Japanese artists and culture. He didn't know one word of Japanese at that time. When a member of the audience asked him to translate the words on a painting, he got away with by saying that because of his supposed background (was shipped to Europe to learn about European culture very well), he didn't have time to learn Japanese. Looks like he did it [[For the Lulz]].

* After the Pearl Harbor attack, anti-Japanese sentiment in the US reached literally murderous levels. Asian-Americans who were not of Japanese descent often took steps to distance themselves from Japanese-Americans to escape spillover persecution.

* A common joke in the Russian [[Anime]] fandom is to call anime "Chinese pornographic cartoons" after one [[Critical Research Failure|utterly clueless]] and [[New Media Are Evil|sensationalist]] newspaper report.

* The website [http://alllooksame.com/ AllLookSame] invokes this trope and challenges you to tell the difference.

* For the 2011 ''[[Green Hornet]]'' movie, The Internet Movie Database [http://www.movieline.com/2011/01/imdb-thinks-asians-are-pretty-much-interchangable.php at one point listed] Korean-American [[John Cho]] as Kato, when in fact the role was played by Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou. About 500 subsequent movie reviews have also committed the same error. Cho himself joked on [[Twitter]]: "I am beginning to suspect that I am not in the Green Hornet movie."

* Actor Daniel Dae Kim, who plays the Korean Jin on ''[[Lost]]'' reportedly said that having played characters of every Asian ethnicity except his own, it was nice to be able to play Jin.

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