{"id":418,"date":"2004-07-15T22:45:47","date_gmt":"2004-07-16T03:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/07\/15\/double-mistaken-identity\/"},"modified":"2004-07-15T22:45:47","modified_gmt":"2004-07-16T03:45:47","slug":"double-mistaken-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/07\/15\/double-mistaken-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Double mistaken identity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a380'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n I had a rather odd experience the other day while waiting at the<br \/>\n train platform.   I was standing behind two girls who I thought<br \/>\n were your typical Japanese high school students.  However, when I<br \/>\n started overhearing the conversation I realized they were speaking<br \/>\n English.  Perfect English of the North American variety.   I found<br \/>\n this rather amusing since I completely mistook them for Japanese<br \/>\n on first glance.  After listening a little more carefully I<br \/>\n heard some Chinese being thrown into the middle of the conversation<br \/>\n so I made the liberal guess they were Chinese-American of<br \/>\n some sort.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Here&#8217;s the kicker, since I just sat quiet threw all of this<br \/>\n they probably thought I was just some normal Japanese dude.<br \/>\n The fun of being a non-japanese asian in Japan.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a rather odd experience the other day while waiting at the train platform. I was standing behind two girls who I thought were your typical Japanese high school students. However, when I started overhearing the conversation I realized they were speaking English. Perfect English of the North American variety. I found this rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}