China is a huge country with many different minorities mixing different genetics. The majority, the Han people, trace their roots to North-central China, but it should be remembered that China consists of minorities with influence from Mongolia, the Middle East, and Russia. Therefore, appearances also vary depending on the area of China. As for Korean people, it is widely accepted that Korean origins can be traced back to early settlements in South China and Taiwan.
However, there is universal agreement that relatively speaking, the three countries have been quite secluded in recent history, resulting in quite a homogenous society in each. After all, their languages are completely different, so it is easy to accept that their appearances have differences, too.
Japanese, Korean, and Chinese people are generally similar with regards to their skin type. Their skin tone is broadly the same or a very similar color, although this can be very diverse among minority groups in all three countries. For example, people from northern Japan such as Aomori and Hokkaido where it is cold tend to be paler, but in southern areas such as Kyushu and the tropical Okinawa, people can be a lot darker.
Different areas of China, also, have varied skin tones, just like people in other continents. According to research, their skin is more resistant to aging than some other skin types. Indeed, my own experience in Japan is that I often hugely underestimate the ages of many people here! Their porcelain skin tends to be clear and smooth and remains so for longer.
However, this skin type can also be extremely sensitive to the environment, particularly chemicals and strong skin products. For this reason, advertising skin beauty and care products is a big business in Asian countries.
Japanese, Korean, and Chinese people tend to be more careful with products and treatments they use on their skin. This, in turn, means that they are using more organic ingredients in their beauty products which helps women maintain undamaged, healthy skin even as they get older. This is one definite similarity of the three nationalities, and can easily lead to cases of mistaken identity!
However, it is important to remember that minorities in these countries do have different tones and features, as well as people who are mixed race. However, there are several noteworthy differences between the Chinese and the Koreans. Although they are both of Asian origin and their countries are part of the Asian continent, the two cultures are different due to their language, traditions, history and attitude to life in general. Physically, it is said that the two nationalities look alike.
There are similarities, but apart from being Asian, these two sets of people do not look exactly the same. Chinese and Koreans are aware of their differences, but it is more difficult for outsiders to observe these differences.
The Chinese and the Koreans are members of the largest and most populated continents in the world. Asia holds one of the largest collections of different cultures, including the Chinese and Koreans. Chinese people can differ physically according to the parts of China they originated from.
The northern Chinese have paler skin, smaller noses and eyes and squarish faces compared to the Chinese people in the south. The Chinese culture is one of the oldest cultures historically and Chinese people honor their families and family traditions. The Chinese language is not easy to learn, although modern day Chinese has been simplified. The number of characters in use today are less than originally used. The spoken language relies on tones attached to words that are similar. The tones used differentiate the word meaning and this makes it more difficult to learn the language.
Chinese people have traditional food and a unique way of eating with chopsticks. Their traditional dress called Hanfu was adapted from the Han people. Traditionally, being well dressed is a sign of wealth and success for the Chinese people. Both countries are classified as belonging to the Far East. It is the opinion of some Chinese people that the Koreans stole the Chinese culture and have adopted many Chinese customs.
Koreans like to stick together and value politeness and family loyalty very highly. The Korean family tends to be a traditional family unit with the mother staying at home to raise the children. Koreans are light skinned and have a youthful appearance that they rate highly as a sign of beauty. Their noses are longer than the Chinese and they also have high cheek bones. Koreans choose to learn either Chinese or Japanese as part of their education. Koreans have their own handwriting system, also based on strokes, but not as complex as Chinese.
The spoken language does not rely on tones and this makes it easier to learn. However, grammatically Korean is more difficult to learn, due to grammar structures. Koreans enjoy bright clothing and love to wear the latest name brands.
What left of the cultures and traditions of the Chinese can be found mainly overseas like in Taiwan, Singapore or even the American Chinese. China Chinese are now an entirely different breed of Chinese from those Overseas.
The name Chinese is actually referring to Khitan people, so Chinese today are using wrong name for themselves. Now china is copying everything from korea, they way they dress, girls wearing make up, tv shows etc.
Also the comments regarding the respective languages are not entirely true. Korean and Japanese are both thought to be language isolates. Again, these are features not seen in Japanese or Korean, which is rather telling. Japanese people wear jeans and t-shirts. Maybe not to the office, but jeans are not as unusual as you seem to think. However by no means the Korean nor Japanese languages originated from Chinese.
Instead, the huge original differences between them made the Koreans to create a different writing system that would better represent the sounds and phonetics of their own language. Koreans were forced to learn Chinese, but the people didnt take to it, a king i forget his name designed a alphabet and language. Korean language has closer ties to Turkey via Mongols than Chinese. No, that is the wrong answer. Chinese were forced to learn a new language during each of their dynastic change.
Koreans used the Chinese writing. But even the Chinese writing went through many changes throughout its lengthy history. One can conclude Chinese writing that they use today is not very authentic as let say what it was years ago.
Koreans and Japanese on the other hand have had the same language for a very lengthy time. No dynastic affected their language. This is because during the steppe peoples invasion into Northern China, their was a change and migration in Race. Where ethnic Chinese peoples were pushed South while the Northern peoples were decimated.
Very similar history to that of India. How Northern India and Southern India is different. You are deadly wrong. Even though most Asian languages have many similar syntax and stuff, they still have their differences in some areas. The origin of the languages are not the same.
We used different stuff before the Silk Road. But after the silk road. The Asian languages influenced each other and they adapt or update the syntax and the way of talking to make it easier to communicate.
However, all of the languages never became one. To know the detail of the differences takes a lot of studying and explanation. The sentence structure is very similar in the way it is shaped. I would not say Chinese is similar to Japanese.
Besides, the syllabic and vowel system of Korean are not similar to Japanese. I have no idea if you have ever learned Korean or Chinese, Korean characters are phonetic, like Latin alphabet. On the other hand Japanese has syllabic alphabet, which is systematically quite similar to Arabic. Im Korean. I Know Chinise words only. For Korean. Its all. My ex girlfriend is a linguist from Busan , she told me the Korean language has more ties to the Turkish language than Chinese.
We were both were expats in China when we met ,she picked up Chinese very quickly, I told her it was because she lived so close to China, she was quick to give me the history of the Korean language. Savage Noise Lan? I still remember a bunch of korean sitting on the ground in the underground station and talking loudly to each other while Chinese were very quite in Shanghai.
Behave yourself online! Even when spoken at about the same level of loudness, most people would agree that Cantonese sounds rather unrefined. I totally agree with you. Japanese just borrow Chinese characters.
Although we had our own unique language just as the Japanese, it is really hard to keep the language that we are using now if we do not include the part that has its origin from mandarins. If you have ever learned mandarin you will be shocked how many vocabularies not just for directing sth but even grammatical vocabularies too Koreans use is all from mandarin.
Of course its usage or pronunciation may have changed alot from the original, still its most basic meaning is kept. It is like Latin for English. The two are totally different language but you can never say totally NO to an assertion that Latin has some roots of English.
Arabic has a phonetic alphabet, just like Latin. Consonants and vowels are represented by separate phonetic letters.
I have learned Arabic and I have majored philology at the university. Yes , Arabic is a phonetic language , Ancient Egyptian or Coptic extinct language is a syllabic language and I think Italian too is syllabic not sure though. All spoken languages are by the same virtue phonetic. The phonotactic structures of some such as Japanese and Chinese do mean that you have a majority of what we call open syllables. Syllables with no consonant after the vowel.
I live in Australia and I remember how a bunch of Australian school girls were laughing during class. I agree, that Taiwanese are rather calm, compared to chinese. Some people might regard such behaviour as rude, but for me it is mostly just a different culture… Germans might be seen als cold, hard-minded or boring for not behaving such colorful and passionate. To reiterate what others have said, neither Korean or Japanese languages evolved from any Chinese dialect.
Both are language isolates, but probably share a common ancestor somewhere along the way. Living with a housemate from Hong Kong the part about Chinese people speaking very loud becomes very clear.
This would suggest to me that the Cantonese which I believe is a Mandarin dialect which she speaks back home would involve a far more complicated and important pronunciation of the vowels whereas the syllables carry far less importance. Chinese land people often spit with or without meaning. When you compare KungFu movies to Samurai movies, Chinese people seam to be more hectic and the Japanese people raised pauses in speaking and movement to an art form.
Just on a language note…. Korean is considered by most linguists to be a language isolate. Oh your English is great!
As a chinese, I admit the object fact that Chinese people are noisy and old-fashioned relatively. Material determines consciousness. Sometimes I feel ashamed but I believe Chinese people are trying to ged rid of these bad habits. One day, Chinese economy will get much better and GDP Per Capita will not be forty years behind of Japan like today, and by that time you will find Chinese people are not so bad. BTW, Chinese fashions are not so weird and language has nothing to do with the flaws appear today.
There is a distinct cultural differences between the Chinese people from those 3 regions. You need to visit Taiwan, and Mainland China up far north. The Japanese and Koreans language was heavily influenced by the Chinese language. That would be a more correct statement instead of saying that the Japanese and Korean language originated from Chinese. And the Chinese language was influenced by even more diverse groups. The origin of Chinese is unclear due to this reason.
You may want to add Singapore Chinese and the Chinese expats many several generations removed from the Mainland in many countries throughout Southeast Asia. That, and like every other Chinese community in the other parts of Asia.
This statement only holds true for people in HK and Taiwan. Most Mainland Chinese consider the 3 groups as the same nationality and do not mind being generalised. This is true as far as grouping the Chinese, however I had to use the common terms used overseas Chinese, Japanese, Korean to make things clear for people who have no background in the subject.
Those would be some good facts for a more detailed article. Agreeing with Uno H. Yi … As far as I know, the root of the Japanese language is still unknown. Such as kanji.
Japanese, like many languages in Asia borrowed Chinese words as a matter of doing business over the centuries. But it should not be confused with origins. Japanese, Korean and Ainu most likely came from a proto-Altaic language think Mongols and other tribes spreading as far as Turkey while Chinese is a Sino-Tibetan language. Even within Chinese, it is amazing how different Mandarin and Cantonese common Hong Kong dialect are and as I understand it, are for the most part mutually unintelligible.
Yes, mostly mutually unintelligible. Taking Chinese characters in into the native language is common for Asian languages because it makes things faster to write or to say. Han character became well-known after the reformation of the Han Dynasty and the Silk Road.
China traded with all Asia and Han character came into the neighbor countries. They were fascinated of how fast it is to write with Han character. You really need a lot of cultural and history lessons. Do you even study Japanese? In Chinese, there are only classifier and the classified words. Romanized pinyin is created after the westerner came to learn Chinese.
Let me rephrase that. I would like to share some of my experiences. I have lived in Japan over 10 years, and Korea for 4. In that time, I found Korean culture to be extremely obnoxious. Every Korean male believes he is the most important person on the planet, and acts accordingly.
It was a horrible experience to have lived in Japan for 8 years and then to have moved to Korea. Thankfully, I am now back in Japan. Suffice it to say, Japan and Korea, while close geographically, are a universe apart where it comes to customs and culture. Its different from case by case, but i know what you are talking about, especially if you lived in Japan for ta while and expected somethings similar about japan. And yes. It is a completely different thing to live in Korea for 4 years.
I would like to observe what you have observed once I go visit that part of the world. Unfortunately with that sentence so early on, it threw me off… so it was quite hard for me to remain unbiased when I continued to read.
I was taught by my professor in Japanese also a native speaker that most of the language does actually originate from the Chinese language. Kanji goes without saying. Part of the confusion is that there are many theories on the origins of Japanese, Korean and Ainu.
The consensus points to an origin as part of the Altaic languages whereas Chinese falls into the Sino-Tibetan group. While there are many borrowed words probably as a consequence of centuries of trade, there are many aspects of grammar that make Korean and Japanese very different from Chinese. Katakana was derived from hiragana.
Most katakana are similar to hiragana, but are more angular and use more straight lines. Im not racists or whatever they call it but on my experience, i find Chinese people the most rude and have no good manners in public. They dont even know how to say excuse me or im sorry and they are the most dishonest among the three.
They are the most loud people i know. Koreans or the other hand, are racists people. Japanese on the other hand are the kind people. They smell good and very industrious. Heheh you must have lived in japan first lol. It is quite true that japan is the most polite out of the three, generally speaking. And china is developing right now. They are going through what the other two countries already have been through.
In the other you can see mannerism in the other way, closedness. Japanese are quite shut. U can even see it by the language they use. They can put a lot of distance between people by using the polite terms, same with korean, but bit less. Then there is chinese. There was poison and bitterness in your words and i believ these thoughts of urs will not not affect u , when u r meeting a new east asian. Chinese and koreans hate japan, and japan probably hates china and not in favor of KOREA but we arent to hate individuals.
Some do, but most just accept the others as long as they do not cause conflicts. You are comparing these cultures against your own. What may be rude to you, may not be rude to others. Similarly, what may be normal to you, may be rude to others. Being loud may be rude in yours, but polite in theirs. Just like eating with your hands may be rude to them but normal to you. It seems you are biased without even knowing it. What defines the general standard of what is polite and what is not?
I tend to go with culture as determining the standard. To a Westerner, I may ask how your wife and children are doing, but to an Arab, it would be very rude you may generally ask about family, but not specifically about the women of the family. You may also find people in Asia wearing surgical masks in public, not to protect themselves, but to keep from spreading their cold to everyone else. Korean men may seem like assholes to some, but I was surprised to find how normal it was to see drunk Japanese businessmen urinating in public while I lived in Japan.
Also, to say that the Japanese are not as racist per se is a complete lack of understanding of the dynamics of the culture. Even when I lived in Yokosuka, the Mikasa Mall side of blue street was okay for non-Japanese to patronize, but cross the street and enter many of the bars or restaurants pachinko parlors were okay and it became clear that gaijin were not welcome.
It was even more prevalent in some districts of Tokyo. If your talking about cultures then you are right, each countries has its own standard culturally but i bet the things i mentioned as an examples are definitely a no no to anywhere in the world if you know what i mean. Let us not complicate of what is wrong and right in terms of the cultural structure coz it varies from country to country. Just look at this example, each country has its own laws, and there is this United Nations, which has standard laws in the international community that has to be followed by each member country.
I liked the fact that you mentioned that these were just your own opinions and not facts. Actually, Chinese Han Dynasty developed the Han character. And with the Silk Road, China open trade with the neighbor country and Han character became well-known. Most Asian countries replaces their words with Han like Japanese replace Hiragana with Kanji to make writing faster.
Saying Asian language came from Chinese is totally wrong. I would say that culturally and scientifically, in Asia, Chinese is to a great extent what Latin has been in Europe. There are so many loan words, that have been internalized in the other languages. Even the number system side by side with native systems. I think he was talking about the alphabet. Nice article, and its quite easy to see. Especially if observing tourists. By Alexandra Ziminski Nov 10, 5 min read.
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Probably Chinese has the advantage here because it is much more widely spoken than Korean, although there are Korean and Chinese speakers scattered all around the world. Of the two languages, the Chinese have more regional variations. While there are differences between the Korean spoken in North Korea and South Korea, in fact, the differences are minor in comparison to the differences between regions of China. Korean also has the easiest alphabet of the two languages.
It is basically phonetic, which means you pronounce a word the way it is written. The Korean language is called hangul and is supposed to be one of the most accurate of alphabets in terms of consistency of pronunciation.
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