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hey everyone. I was wondering tl's opinion on this. I was wondering first of all if anyone would consider calling the race of people from east asia as "yellow" offensive. I think it's incorrect to call them "asian" exclusively since people from south asia are also asian, but are usually labelled as "brown" in north america. I know in england it's the other way around, but I'm talking about North America.
It always causes a problem when east asian people are referred to as "asian" but not south asian people, since you can say they are asian too. Or you could say that east asian people are asian too.
I think that either both groups of people should use the term "asian", or that they should be called yellow and brown respectively, but not brown and asian.
South Asia represents Asia just as much as East Asia, and I don't think personally that "Asia" or "Asian" should be associated with only East Asians.
edit: please note, south asians, not south-east asians
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I wasn't aware that non-asian can tell the difference.
pigmentation's been known for a long time as not the issue of this color label. should whites be separated into pink, vanilla, blue, orange, ginger, and etc.? like italians are brown and irish black, and jews, etc. what about east europe?
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You weren't aware that a non-asian can tell the difference between what?
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On December 12 2008 08:51 .risingdragoon wrote:
I wasn't aware that non-asian can tell the difference.
You can't tell the difference between someone from thailand and someone from japan?
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On December 12 2008 08:53 SonuvBob wrote:
Blue ftw.
Boo you.
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I've never really heard of anybody, even historically, calling Asians "Yellow", besides in a few terms that mostly just use yellow as a replacement for another color - IE: "Yellow Peril" as a mistrust of Asians, contrasting with red/black peril, both probably earlier terms, or "Yellow Fever," which I think you can figure out.
I think the correct term to find offensive would probably be "Oriental," and I know a few older people (60+) who call Asians that.
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Germany / USA16648 Posts
there are white people and black people. everything in between must be grey people.
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On December 12 2008 08:51 .risingdragoon wrote:
I wasn't aware that non-asian can tell the difference.
where do you live?
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On December 12 2008 08:51 .risingdragoon wrote:
I wasn't aware that non-asian can tell the difference.
can you not tell the difference between an indian and a chinese person?
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Germany / USA16648 Posts
they are all grey
different shades of grey
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Jathin and Hot_Bid look the same to me.
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Yellow is a pretty offensive term and is almost never used. I really don't see a problem with calling east Asian and south east Asian people Asian since it's all considered Asia. Where I come from instead of calling ourselves Asian we call Japanese people Japanese, Filipino people Filipino, because even within Asians the cultures and values are so different.
Keep in mind though that I'm from Hawaii where Asians are the majority.
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On December 12 2008 08:55 keit wrote:Show nested quote +On December 12 2008 08:51 .risingdragoon wrote:
I wasn't aware that non-asian can tell the difference.
You can't tell the difference between someone from thailand and someone from japan?
Dumb question? Living here in LA where we have a ton of everybody, I know for sure nobody can tell every time. Shit, tons of Native Americans look white cus like 1/4 of their newborns end up in adoption, and they're called red?
I didn't know there's one de facto look for each area. Cus in each area there's a wide range of looks, maybe?
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On December 12 2008 08:57 himurakenshin wrote:Show nested quote +On December 12 2008 08:51 .risingdragoon wrote:
I wasn't aware that non-asian can tell the difference.
can you not tell the difference between an indian and a chinese person?
that's not really the same thing as telling the difference between someone from Thailand and someone from, say, Japan
also lol at "yellow"
I don't think I've ever seen or heard someone refer to an Asian as yellow except in racist WW2 propaganda posters
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On December 12 2008 08:58 SerVanT wrote:
Yellow is a pretty offensive term and is almost never used. I really don't see a problem with calling east Asian and south east Asian people Asian since it's all considered Asia. Where I come from instead of calling ourselves Asian we call Japanese people Japanese, Filipino people Filipino, because even within Asians the cultures and values are so different.
Keep in mind though that I'm from Hawaii where Asians are the majority.
why is calling someone yellow offensive? Why is it not offensive to call south asian people brown?
I never mentioned south-east asia. I was talking about south-asia
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On December 12 2008 08:59 H_ wrote:Show nested quote +On December 12 2008 08:57 himurakenshin wrote:On December 12 2008 08:51 .risingdragoon wrote:
I wasn't aware that non-asian can tell the difference.
can you not tell the difference between an indian and a chinese person? that's not really the same thing as telling the difference between someone from Thailand and someone from, say, Japan also lol at "yellow" I don't think I've ever seen or heard someone refer to an Asian as yellow except in racist WW2 propaganda posters
well india is south asia, thaliand is south-east asia. if you read the OP, I was talking about south asia.
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On December 12 2008 08:51 .risingdragoon wrote:
I wasn't aware that non-asian can tell the difference.
pigmentation's be known for a long time as not the issue of this color label. should whites be separated into pink, vanilla, blue, orange, ginger, and etc.? like for a long time italians and irish were brown and black, and jews, etc. what about east europe?
Gingers are already separated, haven't you seen the south park episode?
look for it here
All South Park Episodes.
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