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Any Asians here? I want to ask a question about Asians and skin color.

 
 
JGoldman10
 
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Reply Wed 16 Feb, 2011 04:39 pm
@Miller,
Don't you know some Asians are obsessed with having white skin, and in some parts of Asia having dark skin is looked down upon?

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Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 16 Feb, 2011 04:53 pm
So, given that the Raj and similar colonial institutions imprinted a specifically European standard of physical beauty on the cultures which they had colonized, you consider it no big deal to perpetuate the travesty. How sad.
JGoldman10
 
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Reply Wed 16 Feb, 2011 04:54 pm
@Setanta,
White people have nothing to do with this.

JGoldman10
 
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Reply Wed 16 Feb, 2011 04:57 pm
@Setanta,
I'm assuming you don't know anything about Asian cosmetics?
Cycloptichorn
 
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Reply Wed 16 Feb, 2011 04:58 pm
@JGoldman10,
Aren't the responses you are getting in this thread answer enough for you?

Cycloptichorn
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Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 16 Feb, 2011 04:59 pm
@JGoldman10,
White people have everything to do with it, because it is the aesthetic values of white people in personal appearance that have created this perversion of self-image. As it happens, i live in a city with a high concentration of south Asians. South Asians, victims of the Raj, are obsessive about skin color, although there is no evidence that it mattered before the Raj. I know of no east Asians who are obsessed about their skin color.
Ceili
 
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Reply Wed 16 Feb, 2011 05:00 pm
Considering Asia is the largest continent on earth and Asian's live in Russia to India, huge populations that run the gamut of "colours" this is a very stupid question. Some people want darker skin, others want to be lighter, the grass is always greener...
JGoldman10
 
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Reply Wed 16 Feb, 2011 05:01 pm
@Setanta,
I'm not talking about them being obsessed with skin color. You're off-topic.
Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 16 Feb, 2011 05:02 pm
@Ceili,
Ceili wrote:
Considering Asia is the largest continent on earth and Asian's live in Russia to India, huge populations that run the gamut of "colours" this is a very stupid question. Some people want darker skin, others want to be lighter, the grass is always greener...


Worth repeating.
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JGoldman10
 
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Reply Wed 16 Feb, 2011 05:02 pm
@Ceili,
Hello. I don't consider it a stupid question. Is it offensive to call some Asians orange-skinned?
Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 16 Feb, 2011 05:02 pm
Look Goldman, you ******* jackass, stop sending me private messages, and stop trying to tell me what threads i can respond to. Artist? in your dreams.
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Ceili
 
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Reply Wed 16 Feb, 2011 05:03 pm
The only people I've ever seen that were orange were stupid white people who used too much product.
JGoldman10
 
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Reply Wed 16 Feb, 2011 05:05 pm
@Ceili,
Are you Asian?
Ceili
 
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Reply Wed 16 Feb, 2011 05:08 pm
@JGoldman10,
Do I look asian?
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Ceili
 
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Reply Wed 16 Feb, 2011 05:16 pm
You must be blind, I don't see anything close to orange. You didn't answer my question...
Anywho, I still think it's a dumb question.
ehBeth
 
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Reply Wed 16 Feb, 2011 05:24 pm
@JGoldman10,
JGoldman10 wrote:

Hello. I don't consider it a stupid question. Is it offensive to call some Asians orange-skinned?


it does seem incredibly stupid as they aren't orange
ehBeth
 
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Reply Wed 16 Feb, 2011 05:25 pm
@JGoldman10,
JGoldman10 wrote:
You're off-topic.


uh oh

you think you get to decide what people talk about?

hahahahahaha
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JGoldman10
 
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Reply Wed 16 Feb, 2011 05:28 pm
@Ceili,
Okay, Then WHAT COLOR would you call it? It's definitely not brown, like:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3182/2723084760_334c0f6a38.jpg


It definitely isn't yellow like:

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/MAvericker/i27000ziyizhangtheredauld5.jpg

or

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3532/3774200062_49c7a9dec0.jpg

ehBeth
 
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Reply Wed 16 Feb, 2011 05:29 pm
@JGoldman10,
there really must be something wrong with your colour sense as those women are neither brown nor yellow
JGoldman10
 
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Reply Wed 16 Feb, 2011 05:30 pm
@ehBeth,
I didn't ask you.
 

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