You know what? You are 100% right. I apologize for mixing up posters and such. You are good people and not one bit orang-ist :D.
Seriously, though, with all the snarking on silliness in this thread, I got a bit confused for a minute there. It doesn’t help that I have zero memory for posters and such.
So we’re good? Hug it out! Hug it out!
I didn’t make any comments about the skin tone, but I think this would be a good time for me to state that I am an orangist. Those people with the auto body shop spray-on orange tans are totally creepy. But these people, of course, have nothing to do with Diosa. So let’s move on, everybody hug, then let’s get back to what we were doing… which was… what were we doing again? Making fun of Argent Towers?
Excuse me, but my post was written in a sarcastic and critical manner. I assure you I do not lust after demure oriental flowers falling over themselves for my huge penis (I’m a girl, anyway), I’m criticizing people who recommend going to Asia not for the joy of teaching or to experience the local culture, but because they view Asian women as exotic sexual objects. I do not appreciate any suggestion that I view these women in that manner.
Since you were trying to convey his racial background, rather than his nationality, you probably should have said he was half white.
A “half Japanese, half American” person could have a Japanese mother and a black father, but I don’t think that’s what you were going for.
Some people would find the concept that “American = white” incredibly offensive, you know.
That hardly seems fair, as he is obviously somewhere off-site with his nose buried in a heavily dog-eared and curiously blemished copy of Samuel R. Delany’s Hogg.
About 70 percent wouldnt 
Actually, right now I’m reading The Stranger.
All I can say is, Camus is no Delany.
True. Camus is actually worth reading.
Affectionately known as “guidos”.
Hear, hear.
And as a white guy who is getting ready to move to Japan for at least 2 years or so (though not for teaching), I was a bit creeped out by the suggestion even from some women here in the States that some people over there would be anxious to introduce their daughters to me.
Well, I certainly did not mean to imply that American = white. (I am one of the people who would find that concept offensive.) In fact, I can’t be sure of the guy’s father’s heritage 'cause I never met him, so for all I know… he isn’t white. The guy looked Japanese or possibly Native American… His dad could be Latino or something. I dunno.
I think I was trying to convey nationality moreso than racial background.
Somehow, I have this hinky feeling that regardless of how sensitively I attempt to phrase this… someone’s going to manage to get their panties in a bunch about it.
There are a lot of places in the US where Italian is “white, but not”. In Detroit, we have a LOT of Italians (and Greeks), and they’re exactly that. Like, the general perception is “technically white, but y’know”. There’s nothing negative about it (“they’re not white enough!”), it’s just that with a darker complexion, dark hair, etc, it is more exotic than the usual Irish/English/French/German “lighter skin, vaguely blondishbrownish hair, and brown or blue eyes”.*
So yeah, they look “different” enough that it’s a different category in a lot of people’s minds (or maybe subcategory. There’s “white” and then there’s “white-Italian/Greek”). Hell, there’s a ton of Poles here and non-Polish people still think of us as “different”.
If you’re not descended from people who are from Western Europe, even if you’re white, you’re considered different. Hell, my German-heritage aunt*, when my other aunt and her Polish husband were naming their daughter “Katerina”, said, “isn’t that a bit… ethnic?” Yeah, with a Polish last name. :rolleyes:
Hell, I get attention around here because I’m 1 - super pale (even for a honky), 2 - have smaller, deepset eyes and 3 - my body is more stereotypically “black” (the only jeans that actually fit my waist AND hips are Applebottoms, as an example) with a rack. Here’s my [strike]Myspace[/strike] Facebook picture to see the paleness that everyone comments on. I’m different enough from “generic white girl” around here, at least, that I do get more attention than I’d think I’d get otherwise.
** My mom’s side is German-descent and my dad’s is Polish/Slovak.
OMFG, do you work at the snow man factory? Why are you so white?!
Why would you be “creeped out” by that? It’s just part of their culture. I’m under the impression that most cultures have this kind of system, where the parents arrange for the daughter to meet a potential suitor. (Hell, I’m fairly certain that’s how my great-grandmother and great-grandfather met.) You can politely decline, but you shouldn’t think of it as creepy. I don’t think they have any ill intentions.
By the way, for a long time, the Irish were not considered “white.” Here is one cartoon depiction of an Irishman, probably from the mid-1800s. I’ve seen dozens of cartoons that depicted the Irish this way.
Because the Carrot Function on her camera broke. 
Wrong. The correct response would have been a Mean Girls quote: “Omg, Diosa, you can’t just ask someone why they’re white! :eek:”
Mean Girls? You want me to quote Mean Girls? Why I oughta start a whole new Pit thread just for that missy!
Hey, it was applicable, goddamnit.
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