Posted on 02/03/2019 10:35:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
How did East Asians come to be referred to as yellow-skinned? It was the result of a series of racial mappings of the world and had nothing to do with the actual colour of people’s skin.
In fact, when complexion was mentioned by an early Western traveller or missionary or ambassador (and it very often wasn’t, because skin colour as a racial marker was not fully in place until the 19th century), East Asians were almost always called white, particularly during the period of first modern contact in the 16th century. And on a number of occasions, even more revealingly, the people were termed “as white as we are”.
The term yellow occasionally began to appear towards the end of the 18th century and then really took hold of the Western imagination in the 19th. But by the 17th century, the Chinese and Japanese were “darkening” in published texts, gradually losing their erstwhile whiteness when it became clear they would remain unwilling to participate in European systems of trade, religion, and international relations.
Calling them white, in other words, was not based on simple perception either and had less to do with pigmentation than their presumed levels of civilisation, culture, literacy, and obedience (particularly if they should become Christianised).
Swedish botanist and physician Carl Linnaeus decided that varieties of homo sapiens could be similarly separated into four continental types, one of which was called homo asiaticus. The colour of that group, he said, was fuscus, which can be best translated as “dark”. This was in 1735.
Evidently there was some difficulty deciding on a precise colour for Asian Man, since the other three types, European, African, and American, could be “unproblematically” identified according to already accepted stereotypes of white, black, and red.
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His Father married a Dutch woman and had children, he spent the war as a Jap Pow a story in itself. He met and married a Dutch woman while at Engineering School in Holland.
They had a son, who was KIA in VN, who looked, you could have sworn he was born in Denmark, Blue eyes, Blond almost silver hair, damned thing I saw.
Bkmrk.
Judge men and women by the content of their character and shitcan the rest of the baggage that the thieves in power use to divide and fleece us with.
“was just thinking this morning that I could probably go to China and see a TV ad without a Black person in it.”
Hell, the only time that you can see an all-white commercial is in a home security.commercial where all the criminals are white.
What they should be obsessed with is individual liberty.
Agree however it doesn’t fit into their objective on the plus side the race card is worn out.
LOL!
Muslims see liberty as the absence of safety rails on the road up the mountain. Anything that tempts one from Allah has to be avoided. It turns out freedom is not the pinnacle desire of all cultures.
Except when a victim of their purported crime is black. Eg white Hispanic George Zimmerman.
I thought they were called “chinks.”
According to my past research, the yellow tint derives from extra subcutaneous adipose, which is yellowish.
[I was just thinking this morning that I could probably go to China and see a TV ad without a Black person in it. ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11EIrbBz70I
Not technically a black guy, though, given that the character is obviously a white guy in blackface.
A somewhat more amusing one, for laundry detergent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LRtr9Fwa9Y
From this sample size of 2, I think there’s less of a tendency to idealize blacks in ads there.
Ha, Ha. Thanks
Most anthropologists will tell you there is no such thing as race. The human condition is a continuum. There are no distinct races.
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In other words, don’t believe your lying eyes!
Hitler’s Third Reich accepted the Japanese as “Aryan”.
Yes, that happens. My grandson is fairer than me. If he claimed his Chinese and Indian (Native American) bloodlines no one would believe him.
Yes, that happens. My grandson is fairer than me. If he claimed his Chinese and Indian (Native American) bloodlines no one would believe him.
“Most anthropologists will tell you there is no such thing as race. The human condition is a continuum. There are no distinct races.”
Not the ones I know. The genome projects have identified unique and specific roots. I believe they have 5 identified and 2 more they are isolating.
Who first decided “white people” were “white”
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