It makes no sense to paint the skin pink. Pink denotes European traits.
“Pink denotes European traits.”
Everyone wants to be like the White Guy!
The comedian Russell Peters says so!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn5jlrxcpkI
starts at 2:50
What are you going to do? When the crayon says “flesh,” you use it!
Actually, light-skinned Chinese like my mother are closer to pink than tan or “yellow.” In olden days, many in the upper classes of Asia and Europe actually sought to avoid the sun since dark skin was associated with manual labor such as farming and construction. Many went so far as to powder their faces to make themselves look even paler.
My Belgian girlfirend’s mother had such porcelain-like skin, you could almost see the blue of her veins. Unfortunately, her daughter, who had a peaches-and-cream complexion as a little girl, discovered tanning in college and though she doesn’t look as bad as many I’ve seen, she would have done well to skip so much sunning.
“Pink denotes European traits.”
Where did you pick that up? I was standing behind a Chinese woman at the checkout counter in the supermarket, and she was whiter than I…And I am of European stock.
I will give you this much. She was not pink. She was milk white.
Chinese civilization is old.
What happens to a book as it ages?