hapa radar

[kimpossible]

Can you spot another mixed Asian? I always think I can. There's like 20 eurasian family members on my mom's side of the family. Don't know if I can describe it in words, but I can usually spot 'em. Even the ones that look really non-Asian.

[deez nuts]

I can spot a mixed asian, I guess I have a Hapa-dar to go along with my booty-dar :D

[kimpossible]

Originally posted by Chasiubao_Boy@Oct 19 2002, 11:20 AM
I guess I have a Hapa-dar to go along with my booty-dar :D
Located in your trousers no doubt. :rolleyes:

[AliBabaIncorporated]

yeah. doesn't work as well in the US, though. but maybe it's just that in HK, white people are ... well, incredibly white-looking. i see plenty who actually look like the caricatures of white people in my old japanese textbooks. not quite sure how to describe it. so it is easier here to distinguish a hapa from just a dark-haired white girl with an unusual coincidence of facial features.

[digiaks]

I can't always tell if someone is Hapa. And I do not go up to everyone that I think is a Hapa and ask them if they are, so I might 'think' they are hapa, but they could very well be something else.

You have so much mixing of different races in California that it gets harder and harder each day to categorize people racially.

[Faithless]

<!--QuoteBegin-Hello_Hapa+Oct 19 2002, 09:54 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Hello_Hapa @ Oct 19 2002, 09:54 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Can you spot another mixed Asian? I always think I can. There's like 20 eurasian family members on my mom's side of the family. Don't know if I can describe it in words, but I can usually spot 'em. Even the ones that look really non-Asian. [/b][/quote]
It's one thing to spot them and another to socialize with them. Aren't Hapas generally unconfortable around one another?

[TheHapacalypse]

Let me brag about how accurate my Hapadar can be. Dood, it's so accurate I'm never wrong. Can spot a hapa at a hundred yards with one eye closed. I can throw a nerf ball blindfolded across the room and hit the hapa hiding under the lampshade. Ok, I'm done. Thanks for listening!

[thaite]

<!--QuoteBegin-ChottoMatte+Aug 8 2003, 10:56 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (ChottoMatte @ Aug 8 2003, 10:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Aren't Hapas generally unconfortable around one another? [/b][/quote]
I dunno. I know I'm not. I'm pretty much my happy self when hanging with other hapa peeps.

[Faithless]

So, what does this hapadar ability buy you?

[BeTheReds]

<!--QuoteBegin-ChottoMatte+Aug 9 2003, 02:56 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (ChottoMatte @ Aug 9 2003, 02:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Aren't Hapas generally unconfortable around one another? [/b][/quote]
Not generally, only us enlightened ones. Haha just kidding.

[Hiroshi2]

<!--QuoteBegin-Hello_Hapa+Oct 19 2002, 12:54 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Hello_Hapa @ Oct 19 2002, 12:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Can you spot another mixed Asian? I always think I can. There's like 20 eurasian family members on my mom's side of the family. Don't know if I can describe it in words, but I can usually spot 'em. Even the ones that look really non-Asian. [/b][/quote]
Yeah I can. Whenever I take one of those hapa tests (including BTR's test) I always get a pretty good (if not perfect) score on it.

When Amerie first came out for example, the first thing I thought to myself was "damn that girl looks half-asian." Turns out I was right. It's happened with people I've met in real life too.

[Eros]

I've got decent hapadar but it's not perfect. I don't get much chance to use it. :cry:

<!--QuoteBegin-ChottoMatte+ Aug 9 2003, 02:56 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (ChottoMatte @ Aug 9 2003, 02:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Aren't Hapas generally unconfortable around one another? [/b][/quote]

Nahh... we just act uncomfortable around one another when non-hapas are around so no one will figure out our plan to take over. :HH:

[BeTheReds]

<!--QuoteBegin-TheHapacalypse+Aug 10 2003, 04:43 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (TheHapacalypse @ Aug 10 2003, 04:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Let me brag about how accurate my Hapadar can be. Dood, it's so accurate I'm never wrong. Can spot a hapa at a hundred yards with one eye closed. I can throw a nerf ball blindfolded across the room and hit the hapa hiding under the lampshade. Ok, I'm done. Thanks for listening! [/b][/quote]
Well I'd like to see if you can tell with me... cuz sometimes even I can't. LOL!

[kimpossible]

<!--QuoteBegin-TheHapacalypse+Aug 9 2003, 11:43 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (TheHapacalypse @ Aug 9 2003, 11:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Let me brag about how accurate my Hapadar can be. Dood, it's so accurate I'm never wrong. Can spot a hapa at a hundred yards with one eye closed. I can throw a nerf ball blindfolded across the room and hit the hapa hiding under the lampshade. Ok, I'm done. Thanks for listening! [/b][/quote]
what about by taste?

[sdcheung]

Taste and see if he or she is a Hapa?
Time to move this to the sex thread.
hehe

[teaz0r]

it's easy to tell if somebody's half or not here in bangkok.
i think i'm in sync with my hapadar.

sometimes i'm not so sure if the wave lengths are exclusive
to the hapadar or not though. it's almost as if the hapadar
and the hotguydar are on the same frequency.

yeah.

[DragonKnight]

Hrm, my hapa radar is okay. But then, I've only encountered a limited amount of hapas in the past. Time to expand my horizons a bit more when school starts. ;)

[YuheiCarreau]

<!--QuoteBegin-teaz0r+Aug 12 2003, 01:10 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (teaz0r @ Aug 12 2003, 01:10 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> sometimes i'm not so sure if the wave lengths are exclusive
to the hapadar or not though. it's almost as if the hapadar
and the hotguydar are on the same frequency. [/b][/quote]
What if it's a girl? Or a non-hot hapa male? :unsure:

[TheHapacalypse]

Dude, you look kinda tough. Before you added the pic I had this mental image of you as a little kid. Glad my first reaction was to welcome you.
Tough? Really? Naw, I'm a sweetheart . . . :dance:

[Faithless]

You look like you should be playing metal! :cool:
Tough? Really? Naw, I'm a sweetheart . . . :dance:

[AkiraKodi]

Hi, I'm new..first post, yeah I think I can spot most other hapa's if their mix is 50/50. Sometimes I can tell from really far away like Hapacalypse said.
Agree w/ the tease, I can spot hapa's at about the same range as I spot hot chicks. It's probably just something you look for subconsciously. 1

[Faithless]

So, after spotting a Hapa do you all go back to your Hapa spotting journals and record, like the bird watchers do? :rolleyes:

[YuheiCarreau]

So, after spotting a Hapa do you all go back to your Hapa spotting journals and record, like the bird watchers do? :rolleyes:

I like to dry them and then press them between the pages of my dictionary.

[Deadpool]

I like to dry them and then press them between the pages of my dictionary.

LoL

[Faithless]

Hapa or not?

Dr. Lane Hirabayashi (http://www.janmstore.com/lanryohir.html)

My old professor from San Francisco State.

A pic of him as a tot:

http://www.colorado.edu/EthnicStudies/hirabayashi.html