Asians are yellow?!

[k5125]

This girl's skin is white. I have seen many asians that have white pale skin like this. Paler than caucasian skin in some cases.



This girl's skin is tan. Some asians are even darker, like brown. But yellow? I have NEVER seen a yellow asian. What a ridiculous label. I think these people mean olive.

[SensoUnico]

The top girl looks rather powdered up. Some East Asians are pink skinned. It is not that rare, unusual maybe. The lower girl looks more typical except even she is probably lighter than most East Asians. Of course East Asians are not yellow like the sun or an egg yolk but their skin is more yellowish than just olive. East Asians often have parchment colored skin, light but still yellowish. If you check those old skin pigmentation maps of humanity, the skin tone of East Asians is similar to that in Southern Europe but that does not mean identical. When East Asians tan, and they tan very well, it is often a yellow brown or dark brown rather than the bronzey red look of Southern Europeans. The differences are minor but they do exist.

[KLI]

Asian skin does have yellowish undertones, dont know how to explain it...it sort of looks like balsa wood or something kind of like the color of my school desk, but different, i just dunno. Maybe the hairlessness has a factor.

[mike2]

Yeah, the yellowish look to Asian skin is the result of carotene. This is why their sallowness is slightly different from the olive color of tanned Caucasians.

[cocacola]

Mujahid said:

Asian skin does have yellowish undertones, dont know how to explain it...it sort of looks like balsa wood or something kind of like the color of my school desk, but different, i just dunno. Maybe the hairlessness has a factor.

I agree. There's something yellow about chinese people and they tan differently too.

[k5125]

I don't get it. When I used to tan in the sun, kids would say I was using fake stuff. I wasn't.

They still said I looked fake because my skin was "yellow". They even called me "Chinese Boy".

Thats just how I tan though, and I don't have a drop of east asian ancestry.

[zemelmete]

Actually it's quite tricky question, if northern asians are "yellow" or "white". Many of them have very fair skin without any yellowish undertone.

[zemelmete]

Here are examples of northern asians (burjats) with naturally fair, even rosy, skin:

[SensoUnico]

Yes they are fair but how many of them are there? Half a million compared with over a billion Han Chinese. Their lightness does not stop them getting attacked by skinheads in Russia: "Yet unlike in Buryatia, where Buryats celebrate Sagaalgan side by side with ethnic Russians, in Moscow the Buryat community faces a serious problem: intolerance. Most Buryats have vivid stories of their first encounter with skinheads. Many -- like Yury, a music student -- have scars to go with them."

www.unpo.org/news_detail.php?arg=12&par=1988

[zemelmete]

Yes they are fair but how many of them are there? Half a million compared with over a billion Han Chinese. Their lightness does not stop them getting attacked by skinheads in Russia: "Yet unlike in Buryatia, where Buryats celebrate Sagaalgan side by side with ethnic Russians, in Moscow the Buryat community faces a serious problem: intolerance. Most Buryats have vivid stories of their first encounter with skinheads. Many -- like Yury, a music student -- have scars to go with them."

Yes, Moscow is SPECIAL area in Russia. There skinheads sometimes attack even to absolutely fair haired and eyed people, but again because of reason - don't like facial features.

[Lycansupreme]

I've seen some yellowish Asians (mongoloid) but its probably not anymore common in Asians than in other races.

[Lycansupreme]

entomology.ucdavis.edu/courses/hde19/lecture6.html

A link that has information on East/SE asian anthropolgy (as well as other races). Koreans are probably the most light-skinned, Cambodians usually the darkest, followed by Indonesians and then Filipinos (IMHO).

[zemelmete]

I think that not all mongoloids are "yellow", like not all caucasoids are "white".

[cullen]

Lycansupreme said:

entomology.ucdavis.edu/courses/hde19/lecture6.html

Cambodians usually the darkest

not all of them

[cullen]

how about these people?