Just a matter of feet?
My daughter recently attended a family gathering with some of her in-laws, one of who has an Asian wife. As the circumstances were informal, my daughter was barefoot.
Seeing my daughter’s feet the Asian woman said, “Oh, you have feet just like mine. What size shoes do you wear?”
My daughter told her “5 1/2, but I always have trouble because my feet are so wide.”
“Me too” she said. “Do you have Chinese in your family?”
My daughter then told her about our rather weird family history, with DNA tests linking us to a Chinese ancestor. She likely mentioned how her crazy father was obsessed with finding the true identity of his great grandmother, who is suspected to have been at least part Asian, who lived and died in Hong Kong.
On the subject of feet, my own, while not so short, are wide with a narrow heel like my daughter, with the high instep that makes it difficult to find comfortable shoes.
My cousin related a story of her own great grandmother (my grandfather’s sister May) The family maintains she was Chinese, but I knew her when I was a child and I don’t remember her as such. In any case, they say she spoke in clipped, pidgin sentences, and she had noticeably small feet!
A final comment on the subject comes from a piece of advice my grandfather imparted to me. “Never marry an English woman; they can’t cook and they have big feet!”
Keep in mind that this all pretty much anecdotal and not scientific, although there is a term “Asian toes” Just an interesting observation.