Talk:Human skin color/Archives/2010/March

No such thing as yellow skin

I've been to Japan and there is no such thing as yellow skin. In fact, most people in Japan are whiter than most Europeans. Yellow skin was coined way back in order to differentiate Europeans from Asians. I have never seen anyone with "yellow skin" before. The only people who have yellow skin are people with jandice. Nippler998 (talk) 00:13, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, "yellow skin" is a racist myth. I once saw a comic produced during WWII, telling Americans how to distinguish their Chinese allies from their Japanese enemies. The depiction of the Chinese was digified; the depiction of the Japanese was all racist stereotypes. The comic noted that Chinese people are golden-brown while Japanese people are "lemon yellow". Utterly ridiculous. 69.159.196.72 (talk) 17:30, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

I too seen japanese people, I'd say most europeans are way whiter than most japanese. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.30.240.242 (talk) 23:20, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

LOL most japanese are like ghost white. The only euros lighter than them are the irish. Edgeco550 (talk) 05:20, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

This isn't a forum. Stop with opinion and learn to look up peer-reviewed sources. 74.70.29.88 (talk) 16:50, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Actually I live in San Francisco and the city is one third asian and a lot of east asians do have a little yellower skin than fair white people. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.181.212.145 (talk) 07:45, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

I live in the San Francisco bay are too and I have never seen anyone with yellow skin before. Greenback92j (talk) 20:50, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Actually, there was a great series of studies on human skin color a few years ago that isolated both gene sets for whiteness; there were two separate sets of events, one that produced European whiteness, and another that produced East Asian whiteness. You can read the study here. Graft | talk