Re: "Whiteness" Re: Obseneties
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 1, 2000, 19:37 |
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On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Jonathan Chang wrote:
> The whole idea of a "White race" and "White-ness" is a myth. There are no
> "White" people.
> Racial classification ideas are cultural artifacts of Romantic Era
> (Romantic Error) "science" and "biology" and have no basis in real science
> and biology.
> Time to dump this load of garbage...
Personally, if you're going to classify by color, I find that most
"white" people are actually rather pink in tone. At least, anytime I'm
drawing fair skin with coloring pencils, I find that adding some pink to
the flesh tone pencils makes the skin look more alive. :-)
Likewise, we "yellow" people tend to be more ochre-ish, or sometimes tan,
and "black" people are all sorts of lovely mahogany and brown colors.
YHL, who *likes* color