So I’ve been reading some story’s with Asian characters and I’m sitting here reading it like “An Asian person would never” so I just wanted to give you an meaningful lesson on if you are writing about Asians.
How we look
So… I’ve seen where y’all would make your character SUPER pale like Snow White watching Frozen in Canada type of white-
And NO! Please try to avoid this as much as you can, it is actually uncommon for us asians to have such light skin.
Yes some of do, but definitely not majority of us.
If you are going to make them have super pale skin, make them these cultures:
- Japanese (Although some of them have skin colour that is from like light copper)
I’m serious though, I am almost fully Asian and I’m tan!
If you want skin tones for others, here they are:
- Chinese (Don’t be surprised, they are more of light copper too)
- Indonesian (Medium copper for sure, they can be so much darker)
- Indian (They vary from many skin tones!)
So that covers that but yeah, avoid Snow White skin. - Koreans (They have more of an olive color of skin, that’s what I’ve heard!)
EYEEESSSS!!
Omg, biggest stereotype ever!
WE DONT ALL HAVE SMALL EYES! Pleaseeee don’t make us have eyes were you literally cannot see the eyeballs because this is not true.
Over 75 percent of the asians I know have deep wide eyes, not including myself but surprisingly I get my small eyes from my German side of the family, the rest of my family has very wide eyes
So I beggg of you, don’t make our eyes so tiny!
Also, we have barely any eyelashes, I hate to say this but we do.
It’s sad
Also, we actually do have some asians with blue eyes! It’s so beautiful I wish I had that!
Next/Last is HAIR!
We have such thick luscious hair!
It’s so hard to control and it honestly is mostly straight.
We have black hair or DARK brown hair, that’s it! And also some of us have blonde!
Also, most of us have longggg hair and it gets shorter as we get older.
Attitude
We are either sassy or sweet, choose one, none in between, we can be spicy and full of attitude or we have those sweet asians who will literally do anything for you.
Food we like
Okay so this is what I SEE in my family and asians around me, I could be wrong.
We don’t usually eat pizza, or fast food, or McDonalds much at all.
But we also don’t crave rice and sushi and we don’t drink soya sauce.
Our food consist of pork, chicken, beef and more, pretty normal right?
We have these delicious buns full of meat and omg, my mouth is watering just at the thought of it!
Yes, we eat a lot of rice but it isn’t our daily day to day food, we also have other things like tofu, noodles, soup and more but we don’t usually like fast food.
I hope this sums it up for you and I hope you learned something about the Asian culture as well-
Please remember that I am also half german, Scottish and more so like I am not going to be a lord of Asians and know everything but I am very Asian, you would look at me and not even know I am German!
Please respect this topic and if I said something that maybe wasn’t right, please bring it to my attention.
To all Asians, if you would like to be tagged for anyone to contact you for help about maybe if they are writing a character who is Asian, PM me and I will do it in 2 seconds!
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Thanks for reading, if you have any questions, let me know