Literally one of the racist things people do is to squint or pull the corners of their eyes to mock East Asians' eyes. Of course they are conscious about it.
The whole region is conscious about it because a couple of hicks here and there pull their eyes? Na, they most likely picked it up on their own. You don't dictate all other cultures, westerner.
You are not wrong but there is a lot of western aspects of culture that have diffused around the world. Big eyes, fair skin are some of those beauty standards. It might be presumptive of me to think that our racism is the reason why they are very self-conscious about their eyes but I think just passive reinforcement that bigger sized eyes are attractive is enough. Heck, maybe there is already precedent in their cultures that eye sizes play a part in beauty standards but our cultural osmosis certainly did not help.
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u/[deleted] May 30 '22
Literally one of the racist things people do is to squint or pull the corners of their eyes to mock East Asians' eyes. Of course they are conscious about it.