[PREV - JAPANESE_RACISM]    [TOP]

WHITEFACE

                                             May 6, 2016

  People in Asia frequently
  seem obsessed with having     Daniel Tudor, the author of
  lighter skin, and looking     "A Geek in Korea" reports     Japanese photo
  more Caucasian in general.    that getting your eyes        booth machines
                                "fixed" doesn't even count    now all make
  "Having a tan" is a           as cosmetic surgery there.    eyes look bigger.
  very low-class thing,
  associated with doing             Korean comedies are full of jokes
  lots of manual labor              about the importance of having a
  outdoors.                         "v-shaped face", and indeed that's
                                    the way most Korean celebrities
       There's a stereotype         look.  There's very little of the
       of a Japanese woman          wide, heavy features I would roughly
       on vacation wearing          associate with Koreans.
       a big broad-rimmed
       hat to protect from
       the sun...
                                 Just to complicate things though,
                                 there is (or was, in the 90s) a
   A typical harajuku            "kogals" sub-culture of young women
   fashion look: blond           in Japan that would often wear heavy
   wig, false eyelashes,         dark bogus tan makeup, trying to look
   and colored contact           the wrong way on purpose (I gather).
   lenses.
                                 And now there are evidently people who
                                 are big fans of the look of black skin--
                                 and in 2015 and 2016, the Japanese Miss
                                 Universe was a mixed-race woman...

                                                       JAPANESE_RACISM


  There's a melanin suppressing
  skin whitener that's apparently
  very popular in India:

      [ref]


       It's often seemed to me that
       there's a sense of racial
       inferiority running throughout
       much anime:

         o  few characters look asian

         o  that desire to transform...

       SEVEN_SHELLS

            MACROSS_PLUS

               MACROSS_BACKWARDS



--------
[NEXT - WHITEGHOST]