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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure what is the big deal here. My DC is half Asian and has beautiful eyes, my mil said I am so glad DC got big almond shaped eyes. Is my mil racist? 
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No... The issue here is children copying this language of "Chinese eyes." My parents didn't even realize pulling ones eyes to the side is racially insensitive. The thought of my children going up to a kid on the playground and saying they have "Chinese eyes."
My daughter gets comments like this on her hair, and it is painful for her and for me. I am trying to explain to my mom how these kinds of comments are racially insensitive and could cause someone pain, the way we feel pain. I thought my mom could empathize with this. She could not.[/quote]

And to further explain in a way I did not expect to be necessary... We are not even Chinese, let alone Asian, so I'm trying to explain that describing some characteristic of eyes as "Chinese eyes" is not only racially insensitive but also ridiculous. Like, she could just say my daughter has beautiful wide brown eyes.[/quote]

+100.[/quote]

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