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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Olive skin is a racist term. [/quote]

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It is offensive for "white" people to describe other people as "olive" or "almond-eyed. "[/quote]

What??? Olive skinned people are white. Olive skin is a trait where white people tan nicely and don’t have pink undertones. Like Italians.

I’m pale but have olive undertones. No one would call me olive skinned though since I’m so pale. [/quote]

This. Also, I am a white person with almond shaped eyes. It is a compliment regardless of race -- they are my best feature.[/quote]

What an ignorant thing to say when, for centuries, women of Asian descent have been sold tools and techniques to “fix” their eyes to achieve a more hooded, rounded look. Go on YouTube and you’ll find tutorials to this day.

Honestly, the ignorance. [/quote]

If they've been doing this for centuries, then it's not about trying to look white. A lot of the  East Asian cultures were not really exposed to may westerners or their standards of beauty until the 20th century.

Also, the attempt to make their eyes "rounder" is about making it look bigger, not necessarily rounder.  The fat on their hooded eyes make their eyes appear smaller, so the technique is to create a "crease" to give the allusion of making it look bigger.

For example,  the aperture of my eyes (East Asian) is actually bigger than my white DH's.  But, because I don't  have the big crease and my eyes are not as sunk in, my eyes appear smaller than his.

Taylor Swift is an example of small eyes with a crease, but because her the crease is small, her eyes appear smaller.  She had eye surgery to lift the fat from her eyes -- Blepharoplasty . It didn't make the aperture any bigger; it just made the illusion of her eyes being bigger.  This is also what a well placed eyeliner can do.[/quote]

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