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“Experts” refer to colorism as a bias against dark-skinned persons exclusively, but I view it more broadly as bias via complexion regardless of skin color.

It’s a taboo subject. I guess for fear of being embarrassed, we just don’t discuss it publicly, and I decided to change that.

I want to emphasize that it’s a misconception to think it’s something localized to African Americans. When I started to study this topic with my own money, I took to traveling the world. And it took me about 11 years. I’ve collected quantitative and qualitative data from all racial groups, including African-descended Americans, Latinos, Native Americans and Asians.

What’s something about your research that people would be surprised by?

Most would be surprised to know that it exists among Asians.

Also, I thought people in Africa of African descent would idealize African features. But in fact, having been there, particularly when I visited South Africa about 15-20 years ago, that wasn’t true. This is the product of colonization. And the Black South Africans were colonized by Europeans, and so you find this behavior that is a norm as much in Black Africa as it is anywhere else in the world.

I had a focus group at one of the universities in South Africa, and I gave a question to the students. I said, “You have the ability to determine the skin color, the hair texture, the eye color of your expected daughter. And you can design their features any way you so choose.” And for about a minute, there was silence in the room.

Eventually one young man bravely raised his hand – a South African. He said, “I want my daughter to have blond hair, blue eyes and white skin.” And this is in the aftermath of apartheid. I was shocked by that. I was shocked.

What do you think led to his wanting that? The social value that we put on those physical features?

My guess is that this young man had been seduced by apartheid and dominated by a Western, Eurocentric environment where everything white is ideal. Although apartheid officially ended in 1994, it is now embedded in the culture, which may extended decades into the future.

Fortunately or unfortunately, I believe the world is given to Eurocentric ideals.

One of the most dangerous phenomena that I came across is, there is currently a global market in something called bleaching creams. For example, 77% of Nigerians use bleaching creams.

Bleaching creams are cosmetic products that compromise a person’s melanin, and a result of using it is that a person will have lighter skin. And what concerned me about bleaching creams, which is a worldwide billion-dollar market, with the largest markets in Asia and in Africa, those creams contain something called hydroquinone).

The FDA has reported serious side effects including skin rashes, facial swelling and skin discoloration from hydroquinone. As of September 2020, manufacturers and distributors of over-the-counter skin lightening products that do not have FDA approval were required to be removed from the market.

O’dea begins the video with a disclaimer that he is not being racist.

He then lets a British man and an Asian woman take his photo to prove his point.
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As seen in the video, the British man agrees to take O’dea’s picture, snaps once and leaves. In contrast, the Asian woman suggests angles, takes multiple shots and even gets on the ground to capture the “money shot.”

“That is what you call commitment,” O’dea declares. “And that is why I will always ask an Asian to take my photo.”

others argued that the matter is not actually about race, but sex — and that women supposedly take better pictures than men.

To celebrate the viral video, O’dea took to what looked like a Chinatown to create a follow-up post. This time, he asked an Asian man to take his photo.

As it turned out, the Asian man delivered. He appeared to take multiple shots, rotated the camera and, like the Asian woman, bent his body in a show of “commitment.”

Asian TikTok users expressed pride in the comments.

“Yeah...told ya. Couldn’t agree more. Hi from Sarawak Malaysia! #ProudAsian,” one user wrote.

Another noted, “Hell yeah! Asian power!”

Everytime a caucasian person asks me to take a pic, i look for natural light and angle and stop breathing while holding the camera/iphone and take more than 1 pic

When we commit to psychological decolonization, Hitler already commited psychological terror to colonization. During his reign, even "whites" became shot target, not just became "colonial people". So, our struggle must be more coercive and unforgiving to them and their slaves, I mean, their "non-white" Eurocentrist who always promote their "way of live".

"they are born with good features and have double eyelids"

jeez, way to put yourself WAY down.

Jesus... what do you like most about foreigners? "They don't look Japanese."

Why do the Japanese have so much self-esteem issues with their own bodies? Why do they want blonde hair, double eyelids, and bigger noses? What is the source of their envy?

they all want to be white for some reason... Its sad

It's always interesting that in Japan, forigner is automatically associated with white european/american, like that is the standard of foreigner regardless of the thousands of different ppl groups on the globe, ranging from different parts of Asia, Middle East, Africa, South America, Native Americans, Carribeans, Polynesians, Melonisians, Pacific Islanders, etc.

Interesting they go straight to Europe/US when asked this question and ignore the other countries on their doorstep in Asia.

Foreigner is immediately assumed to be European or European colonist, ie whitey. There are billion people on earth and less than a tenth of those are whites.

It sounds like they're describing mostly White Foreigners than Black, Latino, or other non-Asian foreigners if you ask me

by “foreigner” do they just mean white ppl?

His surname originates from Hebrew.[8] His paternal grandfather is Jewish,[9] and Efron has described himself as Jewish

But while many thought the locals wear caught in the act, Mohammed Hassan Al-Jefairi says they were only taking pictures to disapprove of her outfit.

"Just for your info they take a photo not because they like her but because they don't like the way she is mis-dressed on regards to our culture," he wrote on Twitter in response to @TrollFootball.

"You can confirm this with any local Qatari Probably to report it."

According to the Urban Dictionary, a crowdsourced online dictionary of slang terms, a boba liberal is usually an upper-middle-class East or Southeast Asian living in the West, typically in the United States or Canada, who identifies as a liberal.

"But their association with liberal ideology and liberalism is simply a means to increase their proximity to whiteness or to pretend to be white themselves," the Urban Dictionary entry says. "Boba liberals use their Asian background as a platform to speak on behalf of the Asian population in the West, using talking points created by white liberals, which has a tendency to gaslight actual issues faced by the Asian diaspora."
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They can be found on Instagram, too, taking selfies in high-fashion clothes. And they love to talk about films like "Crazy Rich Asians" and "Shang-Chi."

That sounds pretty shallow, doesn't it?
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One of the group's members suggested that former presidential and New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang fits the profile:

"Basically an Asian who enjoyed a lot of white-adjacent privileges, but is ignorant of the struggles that many different Asian community faces. During election season he plays tropes like 'I'm good at math' to display a superficial Asian-ness."

White adjacency is a false myth pushed by Asians who think that by pretending they are not being discriminated against somehow will gain them more credibility among their mostly their white partners and community. You can be pretty sure that their kids with Anglo last names will not check that Asian box when applying for college admissions, because deep down they know being Asian will lower their chances not only at university admissions but also promotions at work.