Poll

Posted by on . 13 comments.

This is anonymous; I want total honesty. (note i’m referring to East Asians, not South Asians)

Are Asians timider, on average, than people in general?

Poll is now closed.

[00:08] Q: whast the difference between east and south asians!?
[00:08] A: chinese and indians
[00:08] A: …basically…
[00:08] A: (there are koreans and other people too :-D )

Comments

  1. Brian Thomas says:
    December 14, 2005 at 1:58 am

    I would have to vote yes, but only because I feel that many Asians may be in a different cultural setting than they are used to. Different language and customs will cause anyone to be timid, so I think that is more of an issue than anything else. I do not think that a person’s genetics or the culture where a person was brought up in causes them to be more or less timid.

  2. Tardicus says:
    December 14, 2005 at 2:13 pm

    But then the answer is no, because the person is not more timid. If I get placed in a Zuliu tribe, I will be more timid than I am now. I don’t see anything limiting the people to in the US, so we must think about it all around, that means everywhere. That makes Tardicus think the answer is no.

  3. Mr. Minority says:
    December 15, 2005 at 1:00 am

    “Timider” sounds funny. It should be “more timid” instead.

  4. Chris says:
    December 15, 2005 at 1:33 am

    Good point, but:
    1) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/timid

    2) The idea is to sound funnier.

  5. Tardicus says:
    December 15, 2005 at 1:47 am

    it appears there are multiple timiders that they put therrr.

  6. Tardicus says:
    December 15, 2005 at 1:50 am

    timider sounds like a thermometer mixed with a , i had something else that started with t, but i can’t remember, it had the mid in it, though, maybe it was humidifier?

  7. Talia says:
    December 15, 2005 at 10:41 am

    Do you mean Asians who live in their home countries, or Asians who live in America?

    In Japan I find that people are often timid around foreigners, but not so when taken in their own environment. There is also a heck of a lot of politeness, which can often be mistaken for timidity, but is quite different.

    It really depends on what you mean by timid, I guess.

  8. Chris says:
    December 15, 2005 at 12:29 pm

    The idea was that this would be an open-ended question. Part of the poll involves the way we approach it:
    When I read this question myself, I automatically associated it with a specific context, even before I knew whether or not the people in question were Asian-Americans, Asians in Asia, etc. Having an open-ended question forces me to use my preconceived ways of thinking to answer it.
    In fact, I almost left the question open as to whether I was referring to East Asians, South Asians, or some other group, but I decided that would be too vague and force too many unrelated interpretations into the same discussion.

  9. Tardicus says:
    December 15, 2005 at 3:20 pm

    I wonder if Meepheus’s and Fattus’s count towards this.

  10. Chris says:
    December 15, 2005 at 9:17 pm

    Like I said, it’s an open ended question. I’d probably say half.

  11. Tardicus says:
    December 15, 2005 at 10:20 pm

    which half?

  12. Chris says:
    December 16, 2005 at 12:07 am

    You know which half, stoooooooge!

  13. Tardicus says:
    December 16, 2005 at 3:24 am

    oh, i thought i was going to have to take out the cookie cutter

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