Stupid people!?

Question

Why do people think that SPOKEN Chinese and Japanese sound the same????? THEY DO NOT!!!! Go on a website such as www.transparent.com (It's a language site), listen to a sentence in Japanese, then the same one in Chinese, and you'll see they don't sound the same! To me, Japanese is very melic, it just seems to roll of your tongue. It doesn't sound like Chinese. Japanese writing system was devrived from Chinese, but I'm talking about spoken language. Why do people think they sound the same?

P.S. I meant MELODIC not ?Melic LOL! also, why do people automatically think that your friend is Chinese if you say they're from Asia?

Answer 1

You are better than my situation. I'm from Korea, people usually don't know where it is, and majority of Americans don't know Korean speaks their own language.
But I have no idea where the Bolivia is, how Spanish spoken in Argentina different from Spain either. I'm also lazy and dumb enough to figure out either Thailand and Vietnam is neighbors or not.
We live in multicultural world, need better understanding each other I guess..
Please don't be upset, you can teach many people!

Answer 2

I know the kind of people you are talking about! Well, these "people" really just don't care enough to learn about the distinctions between the languages. If you tell explain to them how Chinese and Japanese are different, they still won't stop saying they are the same.

I think they think the "They all look alike" phrase people use to describe Asians is funny, so they take it further and say that their languages are the same and they choose a random ethnicity (usually Chinese or Japanese) and use it for every Asian, instead of just calling them Asian.

Answer 3

I see where you are coming from. It is really frustrating when people actually asked me whether Singapore is in China or is Singapore part of Indonesia.
Simply wondering why they do not bother to learn just a little more.
Guess we can just put it down to ignorance

Answer 4

Who cares!