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0 pointssp33210y ago0 comments

Thanks for the info. Still, it's hard to believe that Japanese phones would put Caucasian people all over their emoji. Related: "Why Do the Japanese Draw Themselves as White?" https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/why-do-the-japanese...

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TazeTSchnitzel10y ago

They're not white in the sense of "European". They just have a light skin colour. Japanese skin isn't bright yellow.

A Japanese person draws a simple human face, an American draws a simple human face, both will draw "white" skin.

sp332OP10y ago

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How so? If you're white, perhaps you see no problem with making everyone's skin white.

But the billions of people who aren't white might have a problem with it.

I really thought you meant Caucasian. Did you just mean light-skinned?

TazeTSchnitzel10y ago

> I really thought you meant Caucasian. Did you just mean light-skinned?

It would have been better if I said "light-skinned", yes. While East Asians are not "white" in the "racial" sense (ew), their skin is light much like Europeans', and thus when the Japanese created the emoji, they made them have light skin.

Sorry for the confusion.

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TazeTSchnitzel10y ago

They're not white in the sense of "European". They just have a light skin colour. Japanese skin isn't bright yellow.

A Japanese person draws a simple human face, an American draws a simple human face, both will draw "white" skin.

sp332OP10y ago

Way back up in this comment:

How so? If you're white, perhaps you see no problem with making everyone's skin white.

But the billions of people who aren't white might have a problem with it.

I really thought you meant Caucasian. Did you just mean light-skinned?

TazeTSchnitzel10y ago

> I really thought you meant Caucasian. Did you just mean light-skinned?

Sorry for the confusion.

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