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[Half and half]

They're also great for robbing people on a whim.

 

[Squire]

Ugh.

And the "peasant" comments just sound like flat-out racism.

 

[Piecake]

I find it funny that the government banned selling it, probably due to it looking so ridiculous

 

[rpmurphy]

Ugh.

And the "peasant" comments just sound like flat-out racism.

China was still an agricultural society until several decades ago.

 

[Yaboosh]

Ugh.

And the "peasant" comments just sound like flat-out racism.

What? No. It is classism.

They don't want to not look like a black person. They want to not look like a Chinese person who spends a lot of time working outdoors.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

 

[DarkKyo]

That last pic man.There is a game with a monster who LOOKS EXACTLY like that. I forgot the name dammit

 

[kingocfs]

Kind of awesome

 

[Squire]

What? No. It is classism.

They don't want to not look like a black person. They want to not look like a Chinese person who spends a lot of time working outdoors.

I stand corrected!

 

[ElectricBlue187]

What? No. It is classism.

They don't want to not look like a black person. They want to not look like a Chinese person who spends a lot of time working outdoors.

They would rather look like some kind of S&M monster than have a slight tan for a couple days . That's reasonable!

 

[Femmeworth]

Not creepy at all. Nope.

 

[Big-E]

Ugh.

And the "peasant" comments just sound like flat-out racism.

They say peasant because traditionally, even in Europe a long time ago, the wealthy valued pale skin. Farmers and laborers worked in the sun so they were darker. This is class based, not race based.

 

[Cheesemeister]

Ah, ganguro. I can't imagine why it ever went out of style.

 

[Az987]

Dammit. I was going to go to bed but now I'm so incredibly turned on I don't know what to do!

 

[rpmurphy]

They would rather look like some kind of S&M monster than have a slight tan for a couple days . That's reasonable!

I'm just glad that foot binding is still banned. I can imagine some of these fools trying to do stupid stuff like that again just to show their social status.

 

[shintoki]

Rock the ski masks be it June or February.

 

[DiscoJer]

What? No. It is classism.

They don't want to not look like a black person. They want to not look like a Chinese person who spends a lot of time working outdoors.

You still see this sort of thing in the US, too. The use of the term "redneck" is still quite common and seemingly acceptable. Yet it has the same root - (some) people get red necks from working outside doing labor.

 

[Dicer]

Yoink!!!

 

[Finaika]

No Bane pics yet?

 

[Valhelm]

It's like a beach full of Mexican wrestlers.

 

[Alucrid]

 

[Hypnotoad]

Haha, not unexpected with the white skin obsession here, will look for that next time I'm at the beach in Qingdao.

 

[Violet_0]

 

[Frankenstrat]

 

[Dan]

The attitude about fair skin isn't limited to the Chinese, though I am embarrassed that my people took it to such fashionably revolting extremes.

Yep. I've got an Indian friend who will noticeably tan and her family gives her shit about it.

 

[AlexMogil]

When I visited Vancouver everyone wore those goofy hats. I bet this makes its way over now.

 

[triplestation]

That's not Japan.

 

[Ratrat]

It's ok to not want sun burn as long as you don't say why.

 

[The Technomancer]

Avatar Quote.

Loofy: One on the right looks like Joseph Gordon Levitt.

Oh good, I wasn't the only one who thought that

 

[suzu]

They all seem to be crazy old ladies in the article. The rest of the beach goers find it too much.

 

[thetrin]

"I'm afraid of getting dark."

Come on, ladies. It's not so bad. Take it from me!

 

[SeriousApes]

Asians look better with a tan.
(Kelly hu, jamie chung, maggie q)

Filthy peasants, the lot of them.

 

[Jimrpg]

As an Asian person, this is pretty fucking embarrassing. It's practically ethnocentrism inverted upon one self, except in this case it's taken to hideous heights.

Really, outside of anything involving actual oppression and violence against others it's one of the most disgusting cultural "traditions" around outside of the US.

i find your narrow view of the world embarrassing...

the ski masks aren't exactly 'hot' but for you to be embarrased and disgusted by something where they are not hurting or harming anyone disgusts me.

 

[[Clark Gable]]

Cool I didnt know the ghouls from FO3 existed. They also seem to be braindead so they're the feral type.

 

[SunhiLegend]

 

[Soyongdori]

WTF IS THAT MONSTROSITY SHIT???

 

[Steelrain]

WTF IS THAT MONSTROSITY SHIT???

An old fashion trend that used to be in Japan.


Ganguro.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

“A woman should always have fair skin,” one mask-wearing bather explained. “Otherwise people will think you’re a peasant.”

humanity

 

[dabig2]

Thanks for the nightmare fuel before I go to bed!

 

[You Are Viewtiful]

Can't they just wear SPF one billion?

 

[Clydefrog]

i love you so much

 

[ampere]

Haha, yeah I thought of the gimp when I read the OP

 

[Simplet]

Out of all the things chinese women do to have fair skin, that's probably one of the less crazy. It's probably a little uncomfortable but you mainly just look strange. I've seen women riding bikes in the sun when it was 40+ (celcius) outside wearing wool sweaters (only the sleeves, still must have been torture), or those really long gloves that go up to the shoulders that you wear with a formal dress.

 

[RobbieNick]

Hey ladies. Up for some luchador wrasslin?

 

[Omni]

Wow. I don't even.

 

[NekoFever]

“Does it look like I care what people think?” bellowed Su Ailing, 57, clad in a red mask, blue goggles and a wetsuit.

Uh, yes? Why else would you be on the beach wearing a mask and wetsuit?

It's funny how this kind of thing crosses cultures once they move away from an agricultural society. 'Redneck' meaning the same thing has been mentioned, and it's also the reason why the European aristocracy look deathly pale in portraits from a couple hundred years ago.

 

[Al-ibn Kermit]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/04/w...on-can-include-a-mask.html?src=me&ref=general

This totally doesn't look like something from a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by radiation.

 

[Trigger Warning]

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[Tacitus_]

I should go over there and impress them with my paleness.

 

[Kenshin001]

Ugh.

And the "peasant" comments just sound like flat-out racism.

Peasants work out in the fields, under the sun. It has nothing to do with racism. If they wanted to be racist they wouldn't use the word peasant. It has mostly to do with China being a materialistic class conscious culture.