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

The only thing that's offensive is all your similar race-separating questions. Just ask your questions...stop starting threads that single people out by race.

To answer all your questions about Asians, Christians, blacks...:

3.

No, maybe 4.

I'm Indian. That also makes me Asian. So what color do you think I am? Look at my pic and tell, please. Just curious.

And yeah, I would be offended if you called me orange or some other such thing.

What conversation would you take place in that required you guessing at a color of a person's skin?

Here is a similar conversation:
dumbass: Hey, exactly what color would you say JGoldman is? A mocha? A latte?
Lash: You're kidding, right?
dumbass: No, I want to know what color we should say he is.
Lash: Why? That's stupid.
dumbass: I just do. Would he be mad if I called him cappuccino?
Lash: No, but I'll clock you if you do.
dumbass: Why?
Lash: Because. it. is. stupid.
dumbass: What are you mad about?
Lash: dumbass

How about beige? I've seen other Asians calling themselves that.

Is beige an appropriate term?

Christianity isn't a race. ANYONE can be a Christian.

J,

Here's the question I think you are trying to ask but haven't figured out a way to word.



It is a very valid question and concern. If that is indeed the discussion you are attempting to have with us, then let's have at it and forget all this other defensive nonsense.

I am ecru...

I'm probably puce, but I never remember what that word represents.

I think this has gotten out of hand. JGoldman is working his works, and doesn't understand a great deal.

I'm plaid.

Yeah, but ya see, that doesn't count. When you say Asian, you have to read the clown's mind and figure out what he means by Asian, as opposed to any reasonable, comprehensive defintion.

So what are you going to do if two Asians show up and they disagree? How many Asians do you need for a consensus. What if 100 Asians show up and 50 say one thing and other 50 say something else? The mind boggles.

I realize this. It's the number that you asked about.

People of the Mongoloid persuasion.

Are you going to respond to this?

Who persuaded them, and what constitutes being Mongoloid--unless, of course, you refer to the birth defect. I was gonna give you a shovel, but you have a positive talent for digging the hole deeper and deeper without outside aid.

My current Korean girlfriend says she is yellow, and there's no reason not to use that word to describe her skin collor. It's not bright yellow like a tennis ball, of course, but of all the commonly used color words, yellow fits best. I suppose if you consulted a detailed color gradient chart that gives different names for every subtle shade, you could find something like 'dried orange peel #4' or whatnot, but neither she nor I care enough about it to do so.

The Korean girlfriend I had before that was white. Much, much whiter than I am. If anything, she looked sickly pale, kinda like...what's-her-name...in that movie...the one about hobbits and such...y'know, that one. I think she was a fairy or something. Anyway, that skin tone with pitch black hair and black eyes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongoloid_race

Some Chinese I met call themselves yellow.

What about a billion?