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<p>Discrimination against epicanthic folded eyes comes about because such eyes are the most readily identifiable features that signal “Asianness”. Racism and beliefs about Asian inferiority manifest themselves in the discrimination against the one phenotypical trait that distinguishes Asians. If eyes are so important, then every non-Asian race should be freely intermingling. For example, Indians have “beautiful” eyes, yet Indian men are also greatly discriminated against. In their case, the racial signifier is no longer the eyes, but perhaps the skin colour. For them, the standard once again changes in its cycle of hypocrisy. </p>
<p>Asians share similar skin tone and hair texture with whites, so why are those similarities ignored? It doesn’t fit, because those two standards are the ones exactly used to racially exclude blacks, since you can’t use their eyes to pretend they’re undesirable aliens.</p>