A Survey on EA Stereotype

[helles]

jenming said:

I find that eurasians who have this combination of features (mostly caucasian, but very asian eyes) can be QUITE attractive. something about this particular mix is kind of striking. to me, anyway.

Really? I know one EA girl who was almost ginger haired, freckles, basically white looking - body shape too, but had the chinese, mono-lid eyes.. probably the ugliest EA .. even ugliest girl I have ever seen....

Oh, major bad experiences with her and her family.. but another long story, so probably affected my bias against her..

I have the typical hair/eyes (like monty mentioned), but my *facial hair* doesn't quite fit the mold. I have lots of RED or even BLONDE hairs on my face, but you can only really tell when I grow it out, and then some light shines through it. I thought maybe i had this mixed facial hair because I am mixed, but then I met a full chinese guy with the same thing.

Same for my bf too!! he gets ginger/red hairs on his beard and side burns... its really funny, cos I always laugh at them and deliberately try and pick them out to show him... ;D

[jenming]

Helen said:

Really? I know one EA girl who was almost ginger haired, freckles, basically white looking - body shape too, but had the chinese, mono-lid eyes.. probably the ugliest EA .. even ugliest girl I have ever seen....

Well, i'm only speaking from my own experience... perhaps i'd think differently if i saw this girl... hard to know.

[siggie_pop]

I came out very ambiguous. I have wavy black/brown hair, huge lightish brown eyes (my eyes are lighter than my mom's and she's the white one), and olive skin. Sometimes, at certain angles I look more Chinese especially if I straighten my hair, but I am almost never mistaken for white. People mostly think I'm Middle Eastern. I think it's because I have really dark features and my eyes are slightly "almond shaped".

[vick]

swiggie said:

I came out very ambiguous. I have wavy black/brown hair, huge lightish brown eyes (my eyes are lighter than my mom's and she's the white one), and olive skin. Sometimes, at certain angles I look more Chinese especially if I straighten my hair, but I am almost never mistaken for white. People mostly think I'm Middle Eastern. I think it's because I have really dark features and my eyes are slightly "almond shaped".

I 'd love to be mistaken for Middle Easterner, I find them attractive. But I am taken for mostly Asian or Mexicans, sometimes for White, but I don't look like any of them.

[ConceptDesign]

jeepin4x4girl said:

I have dark hair and light eyes (green).
Contrary to what other people say about eye color and eurasians, it is possible to attain light colored eyes with a full asian parent + caucasian parent.
Although the only problem I have with lighter colored eyes is that it makes me look even more 'unusual'...if I'm using the correct word here..

AND

Yup, i have green eyes too. I know what you mean with the 'unusual' look - but people dont really seem to notice, i also have brown hair - i dont understand that because both my parents and grandparents have black hair.
(I heard about the thing about looking more like your dad - i saw it on tv somewhere - hmmm...)

"Two girls with green eyes!" - Lo Pan, Big Trouble in Little China

My lilttle bro had blonde hair until 10. My beard is a mix of black, blonde, light brown and dark brown if it gets too much sun on it.

And I have an EA friend who has light brown hair and mid-brown eyes.

[jeepin4x4girl]

ConceptDesign said:

"Two girls with green eyes!" - Lo Pan, Big Trouble in Little China

I get that all the time.

[jenming]

jeepin4x4girl said:

I get that all the time.

I'm sorry jeepin. i can't deny who i am. I ALWAYS think of that too. ;D

[Demon]

I naturally have regular brown hair. That's the only thing that sets me apart from my asian cousins.

[chunkmuffin]

me too.. I'm a typical Eurasian. Dark brown hair, brown eyes (but I like it ). My Mom said I had blonde hair when I was an infant which turned darker and darker, so now its dark brown.. kinda' weird. My dad had blue-gray eyes.. nobody got that feature from him.

[~*Veronica*~]

i had raven black hair when i was little but it was wierd if u hold it up to the light its actually really dark red....wierd huh...well now its dyed cinnamon brown....anywho used to have pitch black eyes and it was really creepy cause they were the same color as my pupils but now they have lightened up to a black brown cinnamon color that strangely look violet sometimes....wow..i must look like a wierdo

[Diggity]

~*Veronica*~ said:

i had raven black hair when i was little but it was wierd if u hold it up to the light its actually really dark red....wierd huh...well now its dyed cinnamon brown....anywho used to have pitch black eyes and it was really creepy cause they were the same color as my pupils but now they have lightened up to a black brown cinnamon color that strangely look violet sometimes....wow..i must look like a wierdo

Isn't it totally normal? My impression is that black hair always looks red in the sun, and the darker it is, the more red (as opposed to blond) the undertones appear to be. And how do your eyes and hair lighten up? I thought eyes and hair always got darker with age, especially in men.

I don't notice eyecolor so much but I notice sexual dimorphism in haircolor. I see a lot of Asian and EA guys with black hair, and some with dark brown, but women's hair tends to be a shade or two lighter (not counting the people who streak or dye their hair). You almost never see a woman or child with jet-black hair, at least not amongst East Asians. You must be a real exception.

[helles]

Diggity said:

I don't notice eyecolor so much but I notice sexual dimorphism in haircolor. I see a lot of Asian and EA guys with black hair, and some with dark brown, but women's hair tends to be a shade or two lighter (not counting the people who streak or dye their hair). You almost never see a woman or child with jet-black hair, at least not amongst East Asians. You must be a real exception.

My bf has black, straight asian hair, but his 2 brothers have light brown hair. His brothers also have hazel-ish coloured eyes and so more western/spanish looking, while he looks most asian. But they all look alike, even though their body shapes are different, they have very similar face structures

My sister and I have dark brown (from what I remember anyways, its been so long since I've seen my sisters natural hair colour, since she always dyes it a reddish/copper colour), we both have dark brown eyes, but mine are particularly dark, funnily enough, my mum has the lightest coloured eyes between us.

[sane]

I have dark hair and brown eyes as does my son, but my daughter has brown hair and blue/green eyes.

[grindx]

I don't agree with the offspring taking on more of their father's appearance. Although I have my father's brown eyes, I look much more like my mother, the white parent.

[Diggity]

grindx said:

I don't agree with the offspring taking on more of their father's appearance. Although I have my father's brown eyes, I look much more like my mother, the white parent.

Yeah, the idea of offspring taking more after the father just makes no sense to me. I think it's a little bit easier for people to see the resemblance between a boy and his father, and between a girl and her mother, especially because the degree of expression of a lot of traits depends on your sex. Or perhaps, when people are kids, they look more like their mothers, and then as they grow older, boys look more like their fathers (since men's faces change more after puberty).