Shotgunner51
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i thought laowai is just a more casual and neutral way of saying 'foreigner', no?
don't we use that for all non chinese? sometimes even japanese or koreans?
Seems right, literally means "foreigners", non-Chinese, especially those with remarkable difference in physical appearances.
But rarely used on Japanese and other E Asian (e.g. Koreans, Ethnic Chinese Sinagporean/Malaysian) who look much alike us.
Westerners or not, black, brown or white, same, all "Lao Wai", we can't tell the difference from say an Italian (Western), a Romanian (non-Western), or an Argentinian (non-Western). We can't tell who is an African American (Western), who is a Kenyan (non-Western) just from appearance.
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