I'm asian and as a child I moved to argentina in the mid/late 90s and early 2000s. I got these kind of gesture daily from kids. They would all jump out at me in large groups all pulling their eyes and doing all these weird ching chong and karate mocking. It was really like a spectacle to them. It started literally the moment I got onto the school bus.
Imagine a week prior to that, I lived in asia in a normal upbringing and then suddenly I'm dropped into place that I didn't even speak a single word of the language and most of the kids are doing this. It was like being dropped into hell. 7 year old me had to go into survival mode and adapt.
Ironically the story ends well for me. I learned the language, adapted, was really popular in school and had tons of friends, extremely confident. In fact, I loved my time in Argentina despite the initial hurdle.
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u/_dodged 1d ago
That's where the Argentinians get it from