Uchina
Well-known member
Charts for respective characteristics of different ethnicities (say 3x fast)
http://ic3.deviantart.com/fs11/f/200...umantypes1.jpg (Asian)
http://ic3.deviantart.com/fs11/f/200...umantypes3.jpg (African and Pacific Aboriginal, dont ask me why they grouped them together
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http://ic3.deviantart.com/fs11/f/200...mantypes21.jpg (European and Middle Eastern)
So I looked under "Japanese" to see what I'm "supposed" to look like according to my Asian side, and was dissapointed. My face is totally flat, and doesn't protrude like the drawing. The male members of my family don't have that "pretty boy" look with the delicate monolid, narrow face and small mouth. Then thinking "What a bunch of crap" I scrolled to the right and came face to face with Dad, the Ainu man (Northern Japanese aboriginal). The full-length drawing REALLY cracks me up- there's the hairy stereotype once again. As Okinawans, we're more closely related to the Ainu than the modern Japanese of different prefectures. The descriptions hit home- round eyes, wide cheekbones, hairy, short, stocky. Give us some tweezers and high heels, and we look pretty glamorous, actually.
Mom is more complicated, being Irish, English, Danish, and French. According to this, the Irish in me is responsible for my face freckling too easily, although according to beauty articles, people of Asian descent tend to be prone to sun spots. Does this mean my skin is done for? And lookie here: mom got her calves and passed them down to me because of the horrific Fat French Calves gene. Somehow, this gene skipped my sister and my legs got all the love. Nothing here really jumps out at me as distinctly relative though.
Thoughts?
And uh, if you're easily offended, don't click on the African link
http://ic3.deviantart.com/fs11/f/200...umantypes1.jpg (Asian)
http://ic3.deviantart.com/fs11/f/200...umantypes3.jpg (African and Pacific Aboriginal, dont ask me why they grouped them together

http://ic3.deviantart.com/fs11/f/200...mantypes21.jpg (European and Middle Eastern)
So I looked under "Japanese" to see what I'm "supposed" to look like according to my Asian side, and was dissapointed. My face is totally flat, and doesn't protrude like the drawing. The male members of my family don't have that "pretty boy" look with the delicate monolid, narrow face and small mouth. Then thinking "What a bunch of crap" I scrolled to the right and came face to face with Dad, the Ainu man (Northern Japanese aboriginal). The full-length drawing REALLY cracks me up- there's the hairy stereotype once again. As Okinawans, we're more closely related to the Ainu than the modern Japanese of different prefectures. The descriptions hit home- round eyes, wide cheekbones, hairy, short, stocky. Give us some tweezers and high heels, and we look pretty glamorous, actually.
Mom is more complicated, being Irish, English, Danish, and French. According to this, the Irish in me is responsible for my face freckling too easily, although according to beauty articles, people of Asian descent tend to be prone to sun spots. Does this mean my skin is done for? And lookie here: mom got her calves and passed them down to me because of the horrific Fat French Calves gene. Somehow, this gene skipped my sister and my legs got all the love. Nothing here really jumps out at me as distinctly relative though.
Thoughts?
And uh, if you're easily offended, don't click on the African link
