anthroclips – Savage Minds / Notes and Queries in Anthropology Sun, 24 Dec 2017 01:44:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 Three Clips on Language and Ethnicity /2014/05/20/three-clips-on-language-and-ethncity/ /2014/05/20/three-clips-on-language-and-ethncity/#comments Wed, 21 May 2014 02:30:11 +0000 /?p=11072 Continue reading Three Clips on Language and Ethnicity →]]> In 2012 I wrote a post, Seven Ways to Talk to a White Man in which I talked about how Taiwanese react to seeing a foreign-looking person speak Chinese. Here is a funny video from Japan which dramatizes the scenario I described as “Look at the Asian”:

More after the jump.

This short film is a fun example of a somewhat reverse situation. “Yu ming is ainm dom” is about a Chinese man who works on his foreign language skills before taking a trip to Ireland.

Finally, when I posted the first clip on Facebook David Leitner recommended this clip from the British comedy show, “Goodness Gracious Me.”

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