China has its Barkhad Abdi moments

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It makes me feel good when other ethnicities cry about their reputation or image based on people who represent them. I guess Somalis are not alone :salute:
 

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serpentza/ChinaADV used to be rather balanced, insightful about life in China. But they just became boring Anti-China, pro-Taiwan/west shills after 2016. Legit unbearable to watch
 

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This is not a Barkhad Abdi moment when we are talking about a common phenotype among Asians. A lot of these Asians just hate themselves and China is the most fucked up out of all of them when it comes to this. There is nothing wrong with the way she looks.
 
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I like Barkhad Abdi's confidence and that he was in Blade Runner. I feel like people pay undue attention to his appearance which is unfair given he was born with a congenital anomaly. So, making jokes at his expense is insensitive.
 


Okay the title is clickbait, but lol it seems like the Chinese also get triggered by people who look like a meme version of their race.
Their normal faces look ok. The extreme makeup tutorials scare me, v line chin, removing noses
 
This isn't a Barkhad moment, this is a moment of self hatred and an inability to accept their natural phenotype. Double lid eyelid surgery is the most popular surgery in China. I think you'll find that a lot of Chinese women look like her and there is nothing wrong with that.
 

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The title and reference to Barkhad Abdi was clickbait, relax people. :browtf:

Somalis are obviously more diverse in their looks than Chinese people who often do have that look of that model.
 

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serpentza/ChinaADV used to be rather balanced, insightful about life in China. But they just became boring Anti-China, pro-Taiwan/west shills after 2016. Legit unbearable to watch

His content used to be better when he lived in China, but ever since he was kicked out he got butthurt and now is on a rampage to demonize China.
 

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This is pretty demented stuff. She looks completely normal. They're just hating cos she has "slanted eyes", a uniquely East Eurasian trait. Imagine Scandinavian cadaans hating on one of their models for having blonde hair and blue eyes; just normal Nordic traits. They even got on Mercedes for this ad according to the guy:



That model looks straight up normal and good looking yet they apparently didn't like to see an actual indhoyar looking person over a pseudo cadaanoid. So weird. Even the Japanese are pathetic in regards to this:

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When I first saw animes as a kid I thought they were made by either cadaans or MENAs since I first really encountered them on a channel called Spacetoon which is an Arab cartoon channel that in my day used to dub a lot of anime. But it wasn't just the dubbing but the appearance of the characters. Japs will dance around you and claim it's just a style and yada yada but c'mon, these characters look West Eurasian and everyone who sees anime at first glance thinks so. It's shameful that cadaans portray indhoyars more accurately in animation than they do themselves:

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They whitify everything, to be honest. I still remember when the late Ursula K. Le Guin had her Earthsea series adapted by Studio Ghibli. The poor ayeeyo probably thought because they were indhoyars they'd accurately portray her characters as mostly dark-skinned with only people from one particular region being Europeanoid:

The racial characteristics of the people of Earthsea are for the most part "red-brown" in coloring, like Native Americans; in the South and East Reach and on Way, they are much darker brown, but with straight black hair; in Osskil, they have a more European look,[3] presumably with skin that is lighter in comparison to lands to the south of Osskil such as Gont or Havnor, and the Kargs of the northeastern islands, seen by the Hardic peoples as barbarians, resemble predominantly blond northern Europeans.[4]

But the poor ayeeyo was quite perplexed when she saw how at best "Mediterranean" they made her characters look:

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The issue is different in Japan. I cannot address the issue of race in Japan because I know too little about it. But I know that an anime film runs smack into the almost immutable conventions of its genre. Most of the people in anime films look — to the American/European eye — white. I am told that the Japanese audience perceives them differently. I am told that they may perceive this Ged as darker than my eye does. I hope so. Most of the characters look white to me, but there is at least a nice variation of tans and beiges. And Tenar's fair hair and blue eyes are right, since she's a minority type from the Kargish islands.
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I still remember feeling genuinely depressed when I saw this old Korean docu where the young ladies in it told the blonde, cadaan interviewer that they wanted to have "nice features" like her. Indhoyars, pardon me, tend to have a serious issue with cadaan coonery across the board. It's really sad.
 
This isn't a Barkhad moment, this is a moment of self hatred and an inability to accept their natural phenotype. Double lid eyelid surgery is the most popular surgery in China. I think you'll find that a lot of Chinese women look like her and there is nothing wrong with that.
i think it’s cololianism too blame, people were happy with themselves until the whites introduced white superiparity, western beauty standards are now the ideal
 
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