All Asians Are Alike/Playing With

Basic Trope: Non-Asians confusing the ethnicities of Asians.
 * Straight: Bob cannot tell Lee the Chinese and Nakamura the Japanese apart.
 * Exaggerated:
 * Bob often confuses his best friend Lee with random Asian guys.
 * A show has multiple Asian characters all played by the same actor.
 * Justified: Bob came from an isolated community with little Asian contact.
 * Inverted: Ang, a Chinese, cannot tell the difference between Jack the Englishman and Jacques the Frenchman.
 * Subverted: Bob can easily tell the two apart, but was just pretending he couldn't.
 * Double Subverted: ...But it turns out to be a lucky guess and he really still can't tell them apart.
 * Parodied:
 * Lee and Nakamura look ridiculously obviously Chinese and Japanese respectively, but even then Bob cannot tell them apart.
 * Lee and Nakamura are actually identical.
 * Deconstructed: Bob's inability gets him in trouble with ultranationalists and ethnic gangs who think he's mocking them.
 * Reconstructed: But then see Bob going out of his way to actually learn about them and give it a pass.
 * Zig Zagged: Sometimes Bob can tell them apart, sometimes he cannot.
 * Averted: Bob can differentiate between Asian ethnicities.
 * Enforced: "Talking about differences in Asian cultures might confuse viewers. Let's just have one Asian to represent everyone."
 * Lampshaded: "I can't tell what race you are!"
 * Invoked: ???
 * Exploited: In the face of anti-Chinese sentiment, Lee pretends to be Japanese.
 * Defied: Bob does his research to avoid making this sort of mistake again.
 * Discussed:
 * Conversed: ???
 * Played For Laughs: ???
 * Played For Drama: A World War II drama where Chinese immigrants to America have to contend with racism due to being constantly mistaken as Japanese.

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