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I think I may have accidentally upset someone by referring to them as yellow. I saw it as a simple statement of fact. Black people are black and white people are white so why would a yellow person not be yellow? Is it normal?
I wouldn't like it if I was called "yellow," personally. I'd prefer if someone called my skintone "golden," but "yellow" seems like the skin color of someone who is deathly sick.
I'm half-Asian, and my skin is slightly yellow... honestly, you can call me any color, I don't care. You could say much worse.
That's just the thing, I wouldn't have meant it in a bad or offensive way. It's just a fact that a lot of Asian people have a yellow hue to their skin tone.
I guess it depends on how it is intended. If someone wants their words to hurt me, it doesn't matter what they say, and I have to be careful my words aren't misinterpreted as being intentionally offensive.
Thanks for your comment.
Actually you idiot black people are not black. Their skin is a dark brown it's not actually black. And being a Japanese person I do not consider us Asians having yellow skin. If anything I'm tan but not "yellow." so why don't you get your facts straight.
I knew a girl from Brunei who referred to herself as yellow, but I never would. Basically, if a word is liable to insult a percentage of people, what's the point in playing the odds? Might as well just say it to nobody.
But you gloss things over. Do you seriously think that Japanese and Thais have the same skin color?
I don't really see asians as yellow. They're really pale, so pale that its scary. They do tan nicely though.
Asian people aren't yellow, and calling them yellow is offensive. Stop it.
Yeah, but the term "white" isn't used to make fun of white people the way that "yellow" is used to make fun of Asian people. Racist caricatures of Asian people are even drawn as yellow, and racist propaganda about Japanese people refers to their skin as "lemon yellow".
"White" is the preferred term for white people. The preferred term for Asian people is "Asian". Also, were you not listening? Asian people aren't yellow. Their skin isn't yellow.
I was listening, my point is white skin isnt white and black skin isnt black either.
I have never heard an Asian person teased by saying he's yellow. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen but by the same token you can't say that no white person has been teased by calling them white.