Skin color qestion for east asian parents

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[Post New]02/19/2009 16:20
zumbamama
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Anonymous wrote:When I was young, my dad said I was a banana.
Yellow on the outside and white on the inside.
Probably not pc thing to say, but I often think that
I am yellow because of this comment... although I am
prob. considered light tan.


ha...I call DH an egg because he's white on the outside, but yellow on the inside (he has fascination with everything Asian).
[Post New]02/19/2009 23:19
Anonymous
zumbamama wrote:
Anonymous wrote:When I was young, my dad said I was a banana.
Yellow on the outside and white on the inside.
Probably not pc thing to say, but I often think that
I am yellow because of this comment... although I am
prob. considered light tan.


ha...I call DH an egg because he's white on the outside, but yellow on the inside (he has fascination with everything Asian).

PP here. That's clever. My DH is an "egg" too.
[Post New]02/20/2009 06:02
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I am one of three asian sisters. We say we are olive with yellowish undertones. For make up purposes we are honey-beige or medium. You can take him to the makeup section at the drug store and play with the samples. He can see all the different shades that people come in.e


I love this idea! I'm going to do this with my daughter.
[Post New]02/20/2009 06:23
Anonymous
My husband is half Taiwanese and half Japanese and I usually refer to his skin color as almond. In the summer, he looks like the outside of an almond and in the winter, the inside of an almond. It works.

[Post New]02/20/2009 09:21
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I don't get it. Why would there be a discussion entitled "what color is your skin?" anyway? My kid is part Korean, part Asian Indian and part Caucasian. I wonder what color his skin is??!


Can you tell me what 'asiatic indian' means? I'm geographically ignorant and don't know what part of the world that refers to. I googled it and found nothing. Thanks.
[Post New]02/20/2009 09:47
Anonymous
I would take your son to the makeup counter and/or an arts supply store, and look at all the great names used to describe different colors. (i.e. I just bought new nail polish and saw names like fire engine red, British red coat red, cardinal red, etc. Make-up marketers are great!) Give him a great big creative vocabulary to describe color, have fun with it, then talk about skin colors in that context. You can make up names yourself-- turtle underbelly tan, Oscar statue gold, sandbox beige, dump truck yellow.
[Post New]02/20/2009 11:48
Anonymous
I am Chinese and about 30 years old. When I was growing up, East Asians were considered to have "yellow" skin color (and it wasn't politically incorrect to say that).
[Post New]06/28/2009 19:52
Anonymous
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