How To Tell Japs From The Chinese “U.S. citizens have been demonstrating a distressing ignoran

How To Tell Japs From The Chinese

“U.S. citizens have been demonstrating a distressing ignorance on the delicate question of how to tell a Chinese from a Jap. Innocent victims in cities all over the country are many of the 75,000 U.S. Chinese, whose homeland is our stanch ally. So serious were the consequences threatened, that the Chinese consulates last week prepared to tag their nationals with identification buttons. To dispel some of this confusion, LIFE here adduces a rule-of-thumb from the anthropometric conformations that distinguish friendly Chinese from enemy alien Japs.“ LIFE magazine. December 22, 1941, Vol. 11, No. 25, pp.81-82