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[Unkotare]

An interesting project:

What Happened When A Biracial Woman Was Photoshopped In 18 Different Countries


Image is about expectation, and expectation is influenced by many factors as we see on this forum often enough.

 

[Picaro]

Old news. I don't click on Paint Huffer's Post links, but here is an example from the Reconstruction Era about image and bi-racial perceptions:

“ Fun Reconstruction Facts”

Another weak seam in the Republican fabric joined predominately mulatto antebellum free Negroes and the largely black ex-slaves.

In Louisiana and N. Carolina, the early monopolization of black leadership by the mulatto class aroused the color and class tensions never far from the surface in the black community.

A mulatto candidate for the 1868 constitutional convention in South Carolina said: “ If ever there is a ****** government – an unmixed ****** government – established in South Carolina, I shall move.”

On the other side, a black leader said of the mulattoes: “To what race do they belong? … I know that my ancestors trod the burning sands of Africa, but why should men in whose veins run a great preponderance of white blood seek to specially ally themselves with the black man, prate of 'our race', when they are simply mongrels.”

p.560, Ordeal By Fire – The Civil War and Reconstruction - James McPherson, Knopf, 1982.

 

[Unkotare]

Some of the photoshopping was down right comical.

 

[William Joyce]

May the Lord bless her: the offspring of a Japanese and a black is not beautiful.

 

[Mr. H.]

I like the Albania one.

 

[Unkotare]

What's interesting is how people from different places altered the picture to meet their own expectations of beauty, and how using a biracial model confounded this process for many.

 

[reconmark]

May the Lord bless her: the offspring of a Japanese and a black is not beautiful.

Actually she is quite beautiful, we live in a world where hitler doesn't decide what's beautiful to us....

 

[BillyP]

May the Lord bless her: the offspring of a Japanese and a black is not beautiful.

Actually she is quite beautiful, we live in a world where hitler doesn't decide what's beautiful to us....

On the left she looks like someone beat her face with a 2X4.

 

[Mojo2]

May the Lord bless her: the offspring of a Japanese and a black is not beautiful.

Actually she is quite beautiful, we live in a world where hitler doesn't decide what's beautiful to us....

On the left she looks like someone beat her face with a 2X4.

I wish there was a reality show called Instant Karma which showed people getting cold cocked by Karma within the same time frame and on camera, of course, with their earlier triggering statement.

I would love to see how the Karma from your attitude/statement shows up in your life somewhere down the road.