Don’t be like this Brit and say the wrong ethnic background.
That’s four years ago. Why would you post news from four years ago?
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i thought he had done it again until i looked at the link
We no doubt went over all this four years ago, but with regards to konnichiwa/ni hao everyone with black or white skin in East Asia will much more regularly hear hello.
Perhaps the message is timeless. It was a bad idea then, and it remains a bad idea now? 
Guy
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It was certainly a weird thing to get wrong.
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Some people manage to call their wife by their girlfriends‘ name accidentally 
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I can see that causing trouble
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Hope they have the same name, haha
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Yeah that was a curious mistake, especially as he is an advanced Japanese speaker, if not fluent.
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How can you be married a decade and not instantly know where your wife is from?
Me and my Thai wife are shaking our heads at this.
… sorry, Taiwanese…
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Thai, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Japanese.
Same same but different.
My wife is also from another nation….
…imagi-nation
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