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Originally Posted by MMM
Bleached hair: Everyone in Japan has black hair. So why would someone want a different hair color? Because that want to look more white and less black? C'mon! How arrogant do we have to be to think all Japanese fashion is based on white people and black people? Doesn't it make sense that hair bleaching is not about looking more like Britney Spears, but just being different than mom? If it was about being more white than black, then explain to me why Japanese girls perm their hair, and some (men and women) even perm them into afro-style looks?
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I got a kick out of this one.
I have dyed my hair black a couple of times in my life. Never due to racial influence, even if it is uncommon for anglo-saxons to have truly black hair. It was just gothic fashion, as Japan has its own fashions today, yet most a fairly original.
Of course, a lot of Asia is heavily influenced by the west, mostly because we rode in on horses with bags full of gold (or stealing bags full of gold...) and have managed to dominate the world vastly since that era. But that is little racism. Every powerful nation influences its weaker neighbour heavily. As the English are strong now, but why not inquire as to why there are so many Arab words in our language?
Hair color, I don't see as western influence. But if you look at the fashion things that are, such as closed shoes, WOW, ... I mean, you must have a grudge against trade... it isn't an issue.
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Originally Posted by MMM
Color contacts: Everyone in Japan has brown eyes. So to want a different eye-color that happens to be the same eye-color as most black people is racist? Again, how arrogant do we have to be as non-Japanese to think like this? Japanese don't get different color contacts to be more white and less black. If that were true why are non-natural (in the white world) colors as popular? (yellow...cat eye...all black)?
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I think the desire to have larger eyes comes from viewing their own race, rather than ours. Simply, it is what they find attractive, but it doesn't mean it is our influence, and it certainly doesn't mean racism is involved.
White people have long noses, and often complain about their nose being too big. But that doesn't mean we want to have flat noses like Asians do, it is just what we think looking at ourselves.
It only becomes racism when social exclusion occurs due to someone not being able to tick all the desired boxes. This isn't the case with passing fashions.