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Anonymous wrote:I realize you meant this post to be complementary, but many people (including many biracial people) find this line of thinking to be offensive and/or racist. I encourage you to reflect on your stated position here.

NP here.

Why do some consider this line of thinking offensive?

Because it means that the minority race isn't pretty enough until you mix "whiteness" with it.

Uh... Which minority? Is there one?
I don't know one African American who is pure African. I'm at 51%.

Sure there is. I'm 100% Korean, straight out of Seoul. Pure bloodlines are very important in Confucianism. I have a mixed child and a full Korean child and objectively, while the mixed one is adorable, the full one is better looking.

So you are pure African? Reading is fundamental. I thought all Asians are supposed to be smart.

You asked if there was a minority race...you didn't specify you were only talking about Africans, so I answered because there are more than just black and white people out there.

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Anonymous wrote:I rarely see half-black/half-Asian people.

I bet they would look nice, though.

Tiger Woods?

Heinz Ward?

Tiger has big ass teeth.

Ward can get it.

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Anonymous wrote:I rarely see half-black/half-Asian people.

I bet they would look nice, though.

Tiger Woods?

Heinz Ward?

There are incredibly beautiful white people, incredibly beautiful black people, incredibly beautiful Asian people, incredibly beautiful Hispanic people, incredibly beautiful Arab people, incredibly beautiful Native people...and incredibly beautiful biracial, triracial, quadraracial people!

It is a genetics lottery and some people win it. Your own perception of beauty will determine which of all the incredibly beautiful people you think are most beautiful. See the Miss Universe pageants with every country sending their version of incredibly beautiful.

As with all lotteries...many other people don't win! And that is true no matter what ethnicity or race you are.

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Anonymous wrote:I realize you meant this post to be complementary, but many people (including many biracial people) find this line of thinking to be offensive and/or racist. I encourage you to reflect on your stated position here.

NP here.

Why do some consider this line of thinking offensive?

Because it means that the minority race isn't pretty enough until you mix "whiteness" with it.

Uh... Which minority? Is there one?
I don't know one African American who is pure African. I'm at 51%.

Sure there is. I'm 100% Korean, straight out of Seoul. Pure bloodlines are very important in Confucianism. I have a mixed child and a full Korean child and objectively, while the mixed one is adorable, the full one is better looking.

So you are pure African? Reading is fundamental. I thought all Asians are supposed to be smart.

Anonymous wrote:I'm not offended by OPs premise, but as a biracial woman, I find this idea to be a double edged sword. I've taken a lot of crap over the years from friends/family/acquaintances who simply assume that by the nature of being biracial I am exceptionally attractive (I'm not, average at best with a couple of interesting features and good skin) and that I will be stuck up/egotistical/superficial. I get attention from mean simply because I am biracial, and have to deal with the jealousies of female friends.

Drop the " friends"

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Anonymous wrote:I was in BBB with my 3 month old full Asian daughter and a clerk said she was adorable and asked if she was part white. I've always been puzzled by that comment (dd is 4 years now). I assumed that she felt she could only be so cute because she had white features. This thread has me thinking again. I was a bit offended.

Relax, you have probably been asked because she doesn't necessarily have all the features people of other races associate with Asians.

John Legend looks Korean to me. He has many features I would associate with Koreans but he's not Korean.

Really? I don't think he looks Korean at all.

It's his nose and bone structure.

I know a few African American people who have distant Asian ancestry (often Chinese). John Legend is just as mixed as most other African Americans are.

I think what's making people uncomfortable is the idea of biracial features being viewed through a lens of exoticism and as such objectification.
Given the uncomfortable historical connotations of this (highly prized "mulattos" during slavery "mestizos", "hapas", during colonial eras) such conversations are fraught with layers of questionable views on race and what makes one "beautiful" and "desirable."

I'm not offended by OPs premise, but as a biracial woman, I find this idea to be a double edged sword. I've taken a lot of crap over the years from friends/family/acquaintances who simply assume that by the nature of being biracial I am exceptionally attractive (I'm not, average at best with a couple of interesting features and good skin) and that I will be stuck up/egotistical/superficial. I get attention from mean simply because I am biracial, and have to deal with the jealousies of female friends.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, those who are half-black/half-white are some of the most beautiful people on earth.

Their skin is a splendid golden-brown color. Their hair is thick, voluminous, and curly. Their facial features are exotic yet balanced.

You mean--basically white?

Whenever something is good, white people love to claim it.

Biracial people look just that--biracial. Not basically white.

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Anonymous wrote:I was in BBB with my 3 month old full Asian daughter and a clerk said she was adorable and asked if she was part white. I've always been puzzled by that comment (dd is 4 years now). I assumed that she felt she could only be so cute because she had white features. This thread has me thinking again. I was a bit offended.

Relax, you have probably been asked because she doesn't necessarily have all the features people of other races associate with Asians.

John Legend looks Korean to me. He has many features I would associate with Koreans but he's not Korean.

Really? I don't think he looks Korean at all.

It's his nose and bone structure.

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Anonymous wrote:If you think biracial people are incredibly beautiful, you need a bigger sample. I grew up among a variety of biracial people, and know hundreds now, and it's all about how good looking the parents are and who the kids take after. Just like "same-race" people.

+1000

+2000

Wouldn't all African Americans be considered "mixed race" to some extent, thanks to the horrible legacy of slavery and the rapes of so many female slaves by their owners? Or are they mix of a mix and therefore do not count according to OP? Or maybe OP thinks that on the whole, African Americans are better looking than whites? Or maybe the entire premise of this thread is sort of silly and borderline stupid?

A lot of African Americans are stunning.

?? Some people out of ANY group of human beings will be stunning. I live in a majority-AA neighborhood and I've never really noticed an unusual amount of stunning people at all. That is the point. You guys know that race is a social construct, right?

Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, those who are half-black/half-white are some of the most beautiful people on earth.

Their skin is a splendid golden-brown color. Their hair is thick, voluminous, and curly. Their facial features are exotic yet balanced.

You mean--basically white?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm half Asian and half white. I appreciate the compliment OP. Ignore hyper sensitive PP.

+1
Thank you OP.
Such hypocrisy. There was a thread about how blue-eyed blond kids get look-based compliments much more than others and the posters there thought the non-blonds and minorities are too sensitive. But god-forbid someone says something nice about mixed-race people.

I think the descriptor "incredibly beautiful" set people off.

It sets people off because its blatantly false.

It is false.

Just as it's false that white people don't tan. Don't want thicker, more voluminous hair. Don't want fuller lips. Don't worry about cancer/aging.


What else is false? That grass is green.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm half Asian and half white. I appreciate the compliment OP. Ignore hyper sensitive PP.

+1
Thank you OP.
Such hypocrisy. There was a thread about how blue-eyed blond kids get look-based compliments much more than others and the posters there thought the non-blonds and minorities are too sensitive. But god-forbid someone says something nice about mixed-race people.

I think the descriptor "incredibly beautiful" set people off.

It sets people off because its blatantly false.