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<p>Have to differentiate btwn Asians in Asia and Asian-Americans and other Asians in the West.</p>
<p>About 60% of SE Asians and 40% of NE Asians have natural double eyelids (which is different from the Caucasian double-eyelid).</p>
<p>In Asia – women want to look like the Asian female celebs (who generally have natural double eyelids) – while in the US (and other places) Asian-American women often undergo the surgery b/c they mistakenly think it makes them look more “white” (due to the limited and often stereotypical portrayal of Asians).</p>
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<p>The whole tanning thing has to do w/ socio-economic class. Asians (particularly the women) still generally regard pale skin as showing higher social class – while Europeans (and Americans) have abandoned powdering their faces since (due to work place having shifted indoors from the fields) getting a tan was seen as a sign of living the life of privilege.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, there is a bias against people w/ naturally darker skin pretty much all over the world (South/Central America to East Asia to South Asia to Europe, etc.)</p>
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<p>UCLA – the situation you use here is quite **different<a href=“glaring%20due%20to%20%5Bb%5Dsuspicion%5B/b%5D%20of%20ill-intent%20as%20opposed%20to%20just%20natural%20%5Bb%5Dcuriosity%5B/b%5D”>/b</a>.</p>
<p>I’m not saying that there also isn’t the former directed at white expats in Japan (but the same also applies to Chinese or Korean nationals visiting Japan as well).</p>
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<p>Right – but they are like that to ALL foreigners (albeit w/ a distinct hierarchy in treatment – whites generally at the top - with East Asians, South Asians/Arabs and blacks following).</p>
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<p>That doesn’t mean that you aren’t ignorant about this issue.</p>
<p>Yeah, the Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, etc. have a lot of “national pride” – but at the same time, they will usually treat a white person better than an Asian person from another country (there isn’t a belief that all Asians are “superior”).</p>
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<p>Uhh, that’s due to Japan’s past aggressions against China and Korea and Japan’s failure to own up to it like Germany has done to its neighbors and to the Jews.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, Japan has a history of discrimination against the Chinese and Koreans (not to mention their own indigenous people such as the Ainu) – even against those whose families were forcibly moved to Japan as forced labor.</p>
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<p>How am I “ignorant” when I am already well aware of the use of white American celebs in Japan?</p>
<p>It seems your ignorance has come to the forefront upon making superficial assumptions about these this topic.</p>
<p>Japan has increasingly used Korean celebs in commercials/advertisements - does that mean that Japan idolizes “Korean features” (besides, the use of American celebs has been declining since its heyday in the '90s)?</p>
<p>Again - women in Asia get double-eyelid surgery to look like their favorite female Asian celeb (usually bringing in a photo of the celeb w/ the facial feature they would like to emulate).</p>
<p>And no - (once again) anime did not originate depicting Caucasian characteristics - but rather the “cutesy look” originated by Disney (as seen in his depiction of animal characters).</p>