Kade enjoying a boat ride in Thailand. On the way to Monkey Island!

Monday, May 6, 2024

Differences & Similarities

In Laos, Thailand, Indonesia, Burma, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines, Taiwan, China, Japan, Korea and even Russia you will see people with different features and skin color from white to almost black, large eyes, hooded eyes, flat noses, long noses, tall people, short people, thin to slim and muscular – and increasingly fat. If you are in a smaller region, you will see, not surprisingly, people with similar features; they are likely to be related and dominant genes carry down the line.

You can probably recognize an Asian, but anything more than that is probably luck. There are Indians and Chinese and everything in between that look like other races or ethnic groups.

If you are Chinese, Burmese, Malaysian or Filipino you will be probably be mistaken for a Thai in Thailand – at least until you obviously don't understand what someone is trying to say to you!

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