For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 06, 2014

Well, at least we’re getting to a good start.

I’m glad you’re glad, Elly! ;)

As someone born and raised in Japan, I can say that while Enjo isn’t a common name in Japan, it is an entirely possible one. Of hand, it sounds like it would probably be of Okinawan origin.

Like my father was born in San Antiono, Texas. They look at him. Isn’t your hair should be blacker and your skin more browner? My grandfather was from Louisiana and a career military. Fort sam Houston.

A left-handed handshake?? Huh??

Doesn’t Dawn end up being one of Elizabeth’s good friends later on? I was pretty young when this strip was out originally, so I don’t really remember…

As a Korean friend told me, ‘Japanese are easy to spot. They look so different.’

I don’t recall if it was Louie C.K. or George Lopez, but one or the other was on the daily show talking about how George was born & raised in the U.S. would be racially profiled while Louie (who was born in the U.S. to Mexican parents) would not. Louie’s first language was in fact Spanish. Looks are deceiving.

In Lynn’s notes she states that the name came from an old teacher of hers. Her father figured the name had been shortened when the family immigrated.

When I was in elementary school there was a redhead with freckles, LOTS of freckles, & blue almond shaped eyes. He was very unique. I my self am a strawberry-blonde with very few freckles. I’ve always been pale. In junior high one of my friends said I needed to get some sun. I pulled up my shirt a bit & put my arm against it to show that, for me, I did indeed have a tan!

I love Gabriel Iglesias’ line about the first time he went to Hawaii, “I stepped off the plane & all I saw was a bunch of swollen Mexicans. I cried I found my people!”.

Then there’s the comedian Henry Cho who is from the south. He’s got this southern drawl, but his facial features are Oriental in nature. Whoopi Goldberg told about going to Ireland & visiting a Chinese restaurant & the waiters there all having Irish accents whilst looking Chinese.

could have

I was told that “Oriental” describes carpets and “Asian” describes people.

I like Elly’s statement.

Daniel, surely you know that Asians from different parts of Asia do not look alike, even to non-Asians. Koreans and Vietnamese do not look like Chinese or Japanese, who in turn do not look like each other. Nor are their names even remotely similar, especially family names.

What if Elly had just thought that he was going to say Asian?

“Get off my lawn!” – Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino.

Did anyone ever consider that Keith may have been adopted and that’s how he got his last name?

‘prolly’ is the common text spelling for probably. I like saying prolly, too, as its easier and faster than the proper pronunciation. And ‘prolly’ will prolly be in the dictionary as an official word soon, if not already,

I am so embarrassed that the U.S. had the internment camps during WWII. My uncle enlisted in the marines. As an only son he couldn’t be drafted. My father served in “Nam. Again he wasn’t eligible for the draft (he was an only child). George Takei was in the camps as a child. Here is a link about his experience FYI I haven’t watch it, but I follow George on Twitter, so unless they took liberties with the editing I know the gist of what will be said:

And life goes on…………………………..

Cannot understand the stress people put on country of origin. I believe one day, what with intermarriage, all of us will be so similar one won’t be able to make even a definative guess about origin. I understand this is an American attitude; peoples of other countries understandably do not feel this way, as familial origin is very important.

Yeah, Korea in general has good reasons not to be too happy with japan from a historical standpoint.

BTW, the same guy told me he could tell the diff between Koreans and Chinese 3 out of 5 times, “on a good day, 4 out of 5”. I believed him then and I still do. And I don’t feel so bad about my inability to do the same.

There really are differences. Not that one can see easily; but ones that can be seen with practice and exposure. I do have some experience in this area, my children being native Koreans born in that country, now grown to being adults.

My daughter once made the interesting comment that “I’m proud of my pushed in face.” Her class in school was doing shadow portraits of their faces by shining lights across the face onto a paper. Hers was almost completely flat, with the exception of small bumps for her nose and cheek bones. Not at all unusual.

On a more scientific basis, Koreans and Chinese have been considered different peoples for 2500 years. Some anthropologists I’ve read even consider them a separate race. I’m not sure about the latter. But they can be pretty distinctive.

Lots of Girl Guides in Canada, England (where they were founded) and the rest of the world.

MayKitten: They were definitely in BC, my daughter was one. While I worked mainly in Scouts Canada, I was asked to grade a Guide on her knowledge of the US. A couple of nit-picking errors, but on the whole far better than a Girl Scout could have done on a US report..agrestic: Look at a world map and it is obvious that Europe is essentially a peninsula of Asia; the largest, followed by Arabia, Kamchika, Korea, Malaya, etc. India is too wide in the north to really be a peninsula.

Haven’t ever heard Japan mentioned for that distinction. I have heard both Korea and Poland.

Night-Gaunt49: By those who study such things, definitely, or Eurasia. For most people, total ignorance on the matter.

Wow I forgot about brian and dawn!