Asian in Guatemala
It´s been pretty easy to be Asian here with very few weirdnesses. In San Pedro, we were at a gringo bar and as we headed out to the outdoor firepit wtih our drinks, a whithered gringo asked me where I was from, meaning, Äre you Korean.¨
I said I´m Japanese and she said that I´m too tall for a Japanese! She grew up in Hawaii and maybe my glasses threw her off.
The next day, back in Xela, these two guys said Ko nichi wa to me. I glared. Then they asked if I was Korean! As I warmed up to them, I found out they´re Japanese here in Guatemala. I guess they assumed I was Korean because I didn´t respond to the Japanese they threw out at me.
