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Why is it that Japanese artists overwhelmingly like to depict their drawn characters with overtly Caucasian features?

>> No.6515072

Because blondes are hot, durr

>> No.6515079
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6515079

Because white girls are sexy.

>> No.6515080

Because the Western view of beauty is dominant and whites are the most attractive.

The two most popular plastic surgeries in Asian countries are eyelid folds and extended nose bridges, so they can seem more white.

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>> No.6515090

then why do most of them hate whites? the only one that really welcomes white is thailand

>> No.6515093

>>6515090
It's because you aren't a little girl.

>> No.6515096

>>6515085
>>6515079

Sup, Investment Banker without his trip?

>> No.6515099

>>6515090
Because whites are/have been jerks, especially in that part of the world.
Also, they aren't white.

Why do poor people hate rich etc.

>> No.6515102

>>6515090

Envy, obviously. How did you feel when someone on your little league team was better than you? Not like them, you most likely did.

>> No.6515103

>>6515080
Yeah.. because those traits are exclusive to white people amirite?

>> No.6515104

>>6515099

So why try to conform to their standard of beauty?

I suppose it is the same as poor wanting to be rich.

>> No.6515105

Sure is stormfront in here

>> No.6515107

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FsaReX4ej0

http://web.archive.org/web/20060517194357sh_re_/www.matt-thorn.com/mangagaku/faceoftheother.html

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>> No.6515108

>>6515103

Exclusive? No. Dominant? Yes.

It's no secret that some Asians have white envy.

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>>6515090
Thais do that because children traffic trade is its main income-generating economic activities, meant to being sold for obese western males.

>> No.6515113

>>6515104
Everyone wants to be what they're not. Explains why whiteys trying to be wiggers, weaboos or pretentious hipsters being "cultured."

>> No.6515115

http://kotaku.com/5627268/why-do-japanese-characters-look-white

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>> No.6515117

>>6515108
How is it dominant? Almost every "race" except mongoloids have "normal" looking eyes. So to say they're trying to copy whites by getting an eye surgery is just idiotic.

>Asians have white envy.
Actually, whites envy and point out faults of Asians a lot more.

>> No.6515122

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9b1mqOSoqI

This threaad can only get worse so lets talk about Sweet Ann

>> No.6515124

>>6515115
That's pretty wrong since there are several anime for example where you have the "regular" asian with tiny eyes and asian face and other characters from the SAME series have colorful hair, pale skin, huge eyes, etc.

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Born cute asian

>> No.6515133

Why do whites want to get a tan? Or color their hair black? Do they want to be like blacks? Goddamn that's some black envy right there! Oh wait..

>> No.6515137

>>6515124
>http://web.archive.org/web/20060517194357sh_re_/www.matt-thorn.com/mangagaku/faceoftheother.html
>Finally, the evidence of such an inferiority complex is hardly conclusive, and there seems to me to be as much evidence against it as there is for it. For example, the case of stereotyped representation of Chinese in manga can be explained without concluding that the Japanese identify themselves with the White West. Setting aside manga in which stereotypes are used to get a laugh, or to assert a racist viewpoint (and that does happen from time to time), racial stereotypes usually appear in manga only when the stereotyped character is a minority within the story. A Chinese character in a manga set in Japan is marked, through stereotyped visual markers (and often speech habits, too), so as to distinguish her from the Japanese characters, who are in the unmarked category.

>Interestingly, in a manga in which Chinese or European characters are the majority, such as a story set in China or Europe, majority characters are generally drawn exactly as Japanese characters would be drawn in a manga set in Japan, without any racial stereotyping at all. In the context of such a story, the Chinese or European characters are not Other, and markings of Otherness would be superfluous. The artist would make the foreign setting obvious through names, clothing, customs, architecture, and “props,” rather than burdening every character with stereotyped racial features, which would limit her ability to distinguish characters from each other, and would also make it difficult for readers to identify with protagonists. Furthermore, if a Japanese character appears in such a story, she will usually be marked visually as Japanese, although usually only by black hair and eyes. (Readers are often expected to identify with such characters, and more exaggerated markings would interfere with that identification.)

Unless you can counter this, you should just give up.

>> No.6515150

>>6515137
I don't agree entirely with that.

From my point of view the "white" characters are just like that because it's better than realistic characters. They usually use realistic features or ugly features to villain's peons or really disgusting characters. I don't think it's a matter of they thinking the "white" characters as Japanese at all.

It's a matter of appealing to the eyes.

>> No.6515242

asian inferiority complex

>> No.6515255

So everyone minus the Indian and Black guy are Asian in Springfield, US

This all makes sense.

>> No.6515276

Now that you mention it, Whites do have eyes the size of dinner plates and purple hair down to their ass. OP might be on to something!

Those silly squinty eyed Asians. Always trying to copy us white people! Hahaha!

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>>6515099
Poor people hate rich people because rich people are assclowns. They think of poor people as scum, when they are actually making things harder on the world.

>> No.6515294

>>6515276
It's an exaggeration of caucasian features, which points even more to an idealisation of European beauty.

>> No.6515303

>>6515290
That's not true at all.

Most rich people are rich because they worked hard their way to it.

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>>6515276
god yes

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>>6515303
>Most rich people are rich because they worked hard their way to it.

>> No.6515332

>>6515303
Every success story is accompanied by a healthy dose of being in the right place at the right time.

And you never hear about the ones who fail.

>> No.6515334

Why do you even care OP? Heck, why does any white person care about this at all? Are you that insecure?

>> No.6515340

>>6515303
>Most rich people are rich because they worked hard
You mean stealing and being egoist, opportunist?

>> No.6515338

>>6515303
youactuallybelievethis.jpg

>> No.6515346

>>6515303
>working hard to get rich
No you don't. You're doing it wrong.

>> No.6515351

Oh, look, newfriends from /a/ keep replying to a decades-old troll.

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>> No.6515355

>>6515066
Parsee is not even asian ass

>> No.6515356

>>6515340
No, he means getting money and employment from their parents: the traditional way to get rich.

>> No.6515358

Oh god you guys are so pathetic.

I'm really sorry if some people are better at business than other people.

>> No.6515368

>>6515358
What the fuck are you talking about? Geez your autism is at maximum.

>> No.6515371

lol

>> No.6515397

>>6515368
He is obviously talking to the retards talking about poor and rich people you fucking dumbass.

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VUVUZELA THREAD?

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>>6515462
pristine idea

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>>6515351
I'll use any excuse I can get to post little white girls.

>> No.6515526

>>6515474
Your fascination for little girls is out of my reach it's something really arduous to grasp ― considering how annoying they are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzIJwqKD_6A

>> No.6515547

>>6515096

I was thinking the same thing.

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>>6515526
The girl in the white dress was adorable, though, and not annoying at all. I don't think she ever said anything. She must just be really shy.

>> No.6515595

>>6515526
That's a bad example as she's still just as annoying as an adult.

>> No.6515616

This is why Japan should join the EU

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>>6515616

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>>6515466
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>However, in Japan, white is not the default. Japanese is. Thus, there is no need for them to "look Asian", because no matter how ridiculous the characters look, everyone will assume they are Japanese.
This doesn't really change anything.

Typical depiction of Japanese in anime.
Notice how the guy could be seen as "white", the natural tint could easily be recognized as "Japanese".
The girl however? She doesn't pass as Japanese, no matter how one might consider Japanese as the default. Sure it is not wrong to assume that she is Japanese, because she is and it isn't exactly that hard to guess, it is however weird to find her characteristics to look Japanese, because typically Japanese don't look like that.
And yes, regarding the hair I happen to know that she have dyed it, but that doesn't matter, the skintone is enough.

And sure there are exceptions everywhere, but it still doesn't really matter. The typical Japanese aren't "white". You do see how both could be considered to be "white", right? But at the same time you should see the difference of tone.

>> No.6515737

>>6515716
So autistic.

>> No.6515740

Those are actually Japanese girls with dyed hair and color contacts. Think it's not all that common in Japan? Think again.

>> No.6515758

>>6515740
They don't look japanese at all.

>> No.6515820

>>6515740
>Those are actually Japanese girls with dyed hair and color contacts.
>Think it's not all that common in Japan?
Sure, it is no secret that Japan is real heavy on makeup and all kinds of cosmetics and the like, full body makeup is not as common however, also very noticable if someone were to suddenly loose a shirt.

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this thread is now about niggers.
OH WAIT DOT JAYPEG

>> No.6515834

>>6515820
No, seriously, why are you people even treating this faggot seriously?
He's either utterly retarded or trolling.

>> No.6515878

>>6515303
>Most rich people are rich because they worked hard their way to it.
What is hard is subjective.
Most rich people actually don't even understand what "hard" is when a poor person says it.

Subjectively they may feel that they have worked hard because they have gone through all that expensive education, and perhaps even worked in order to sustain what they have.
But even if that is the case it doesn't mean they have ever been close to losing everything, and they more often than not have someone to turn to if the worst were to happen due to their family.

Also, generally speaking it is easier to make money as long as you have it.
If you don't have it to begin with, it is by far harder to open any doors in life, in fact they perhaps not even exist to begin with as you have to have money to make the doors.

I am sorry, but the rich kid boy who got through all of his education, and perhaps left to get by on his own, still have not have had it as hard as the kid who had to go through high school, into higher education, and all without parents capable of sustaining anything.
There is a fundamental difference in struggle between the ones with recources and the ones without.

Naturally however it is still all subjective.
If everyone was poor, no one feel as bad about it.
If everyone was rich no one would exactly raise an eyebrow over it.
Likewise, if you are sucessful but only hangs out with even richer people, it is natural for it to cause mental stress and all that.

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6515904

I wouldn't say Kirino's skin tone is that light.
They (almost) always have it lighter for white people

>> No.6515928

>>6515820
>full body makeup
I don't know what you're talking about. Asians have a wide range of skin complexions and they don't need any kind of makeup to match Caucasian skin tones.

>> No.6515939

>>6515758
They don't look like human beings anyway. So what about them makes them "overtly Caucasian"?

>> No.6515954

>>6515107
I love how the faggots still going at this bullshit ignored these two links

>> No.6516044

>>6515954
The majority of that is just weird things I have never heard about nor agree with.
No, I don't think any of the characters looks western due to any facial features, eyes etc or anything of the sort.

Even the "pale skin" argument fails hard because that isn't really what this is about.
It has more to do with hue rather than how pale ones skin is.
You can gather two paleskinned people, but they don't have to have the same hue.

I am not "white" myself, but I live among such people.
And yes I am very pale, but it is still noticable if I stand right next to someone.
This is due to what is mentioned above and not because of anything else.

Now I did take a look at those links and I must say that I am now baffled over the many arguments some people have for "anime characters being white".
I mean wow, but still.

>> No.6516201

>>6515346
>>6515340
>>6515338
>>6515332

Sure is butthurt poorfags. Waah I'm not guaranteed success

>> No.6516215

Japs have a Caucasian complex, what else is new?

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