Mog Spawn@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agoEvery European waiter’s greatest fear approacheslemmy.worldimagemessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1413arrow-down115
arrow-up1398arrow-down1imageEvery European waiter’s greatest fear approacheslemmy.worldMog Spawn@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agomessage-square49fedilink
minus-squareTikiporch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down5·11 hours ago“Asian tourists” pretty much says all I need to know about this lil anecdote…
minus-square🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·4 hours agoit’s because they usually stuck to their buses. no idea if they were Japanese or Chinese, never saw them anywhere beyond talking pictures in some spots.
minus-squareauraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·10 hours agoProbably just a regional thing. In the US it means East Asian, in the UK it means Southeast Asians. I guess most places default to the US definition unless they have a big population like the UK due to the US exporting their language through media.
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 hours agoDoesn’t it mean Indians in the UK? SEA is like Cambodia etc.
“Asian tourists” pretty much says all I need to know about this lil anecdote…
it’s because they usually stuck to their buses. no idea if they were Japanese or Chinese, never saw them anywhere beyond talking pictures in some spots.
Probably just a regional thing.
In the US it means East Asian, in the UK it means Southeast Asians.
I guess most places default to the US definition unless they have a big population like the UK due to the US exporting their language through media.
Doesn’t it mean Indians in the UK?
SEA is like Cambodia etc.
Yeah, pretty much.