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

@ehBeth,

They don't have WHITE skin.

If you're an American just do what is normal there, call em what they are, like Chinese American or Italian Americans or African Americans that way everybody will know what color you mean and then they can't call you a racist.

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@tenderfoot,

Yes, I'm American, but I'm not talking about race/ethnicity- I'm talking about skin color.

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@JGoldman10,

As if that'll stop me from telling you.

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@JGoldman10,

Who does?

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@ehBeth,

Okay, humor me- what color would you call her skin?:

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/MAvericker/taiwanese_brides_099.jpg

I consider it orange.

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Most of Mr. Goldman's questions on a2k, that I've ever perused anyway, have to do with his comics, so I am supposing this does too. I bet those comics are strange. Admittedly many comics are strange on purpose, but I don't think that's the case here.

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Who tagged this thread as RACIST? How am I being racist?

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Over 1/4 of men are colour blind. Get an eye test done.

http://static.unrealitytv.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Louis-Walsh-2.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9xsnZ-wNWqY/TA_A0_-dgoI/AAAAAAAABXI/P0oT1eCZ2Ms/s400/copy25216_115153121841514_100000404807941_165013_173639_n.jpg

Stupid white people wearing too much bronzer. Do you see the difference now?

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@JGoldman10,

The basic bottom line is that there is less genetic variation in the entire human race than in a typical group of 50 African monkeys of the same species.

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@JGoldman10,

JGoldman10 wrote:

No one was giving me a straight answer. I was told I should ask an Asian person.
People of color talk about skin color. Asians and Hispnaics do it. I sometimes talk about it.

You want a straight answer? Yes, it is offensive to some to label people by their skin color. The answer can't get any straighter than that.

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@JGoldman10,

JGoldman10 wrote:

Yes, I was discussing race and anthropology else where.

I want to ask an ASIAN person if it's offensive to call them orange-skinned, becuase that's how I describe them.

Some people say beige-should I just say that then?

Why not just learn to recognize the common characteristics of the people of each region in Asia and refer to them by region? Not all people from the continent of Asia look the same or are from the same ethnicity... just as all people with darker skin tones are not from the continent of Africa.

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@JGoldman10,

JGoldman10 wrote:

I have Asian friends who were talking about skin color. Not all Asians have yellow skin. I wanted to know if they find it offensive to refer to some Asians as orange. Why is this a big deal?

What is your definition of an Asian? What ethnicities do you include in that broad label?

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@JGoldman10,

JGoldman10 wrote:

Okay, Then WHAT COLOR would you call it? It's definitely not brown, like:

It definitely isn't yellow like:

or

Given the photo samples you've posted, the problem you are having is not with a person's skin color. The problem you have is in recognizing bad coloring in the processing of a photograph. Some of them have obvious orange tones in the whole photo, not just the person's skin tone.

Some of these photos appear to have been taken with incandescent lighting (yellow/orangeish cast) while others were taken with either natural lighting or florescent lighting (bluish cast).

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Stop sending me private messages, you whiny little bitch . . . you raving asshole . . . everytime you send me a private message, i'm going to respond in this thread, or, for that matter, any thread you've got going.

Dickhead

Racist

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@Ceili,

Nothing is wrong with my eyesight.

I'm not talking about those clowns.

A Google search on orange-skinned people brought up this pics:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3179/2927363508_29a236a85d.jpg

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

Would it be offensive to call this Asian girl orange-skinned, or it just the way the light is hitting her?:

http://i64.servimg.com/u/f64/12/24/96/61/shey112.jpg

There's more than one shade of orange:

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

There is more than one shade of beige and beige can be orangish, like:

http://www.joome.com/img/T-Beige%20Travertine.jpg

or
http://www.cornerstonehd.com/images/products/tiles/porcelain/large/Quartz%20Beige.jpg

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@JGoldman10,

Quote:

Would it be offensive to call this Asian girl orange-skinned, or it just the way the light is hitting her?:

For Christ' sake, yes! How many times do you have to be told that?

Cycloptichorn

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@Cycloptichorn,

Then what should I call her, and the other ones with similar tones? Orangey brown or beige?

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@Butrflynet,

Especially yellow - didn't that come from the yellow peril kind of stuff? I'm no expert on all that. Orange seems way out of any kind of ballpark re depicting the skin tones of most humans, except as has been shown, people newly artificial - and then, as bfn said, by lighting.

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@Butrflynet,

Good catch, butrflynet.

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