I can't believe no one has actually answered this haha. The origins date back to a while ago so I make a reference to this:
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because it explains it better than me.
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There are so many different yellow though lol 😛
I wanna be "dipped in honey" yellow, if they want to call my yellow 🙊
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golden undertone due to high amounts of beta carotene. researched about it for a project. it's a good thing. embrace it.
The same reason we're referred to as "Black."
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(He's the Black Mamba, but that's beyond the point.)
East Asians aren't yellow, Blonde people are yellow..
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I've always wondered that too lol I've super pale Asians and Asians darker than myself and I'm black lol
I agree with @EgyptianNergerts , it definitely has do with a lot of Asian people having a yellow undertone to their skin. A lot of Caucasians actually have a pink undertone and it makes me wonder why they aren't called "pink people" lolWhy Simpsons are yellow?
Why Minions from Despicable Me are yellow?
Why Pikachu is yellow?
Why? Why? Why?It's stereotype... like they say red Indians... they aren't red... I've never seen a red Indian like I haven't seen a yellow East Asian.
Examples - Asians being brown... no that's not true... some are very pale and some extremely dark.I think because they stereotypically have yellow undertones. And I have heard that hispanics are red here and there :3
I think white people just didn't want to call them white, because it makes no fuckin' sense.
I have no clue. I think it's used to insult Asians at one point. But to be honest the term isn't that popular anymore.
I remember people in secondary school would ask me "Why are you yellow" I would reply "I'm not yellow you idiot, do I look like Homer fucking Simpson to you?"
Because they ain't pale like twilight characters lol
some of them have yellowish undertones but a lot of them are pale white
Indians from India? Because I've heard people consider natives red. And Hispanics considered brown.
I have been asking the same question for years as Asians come in many different colors
I have never met an Asian that I think looks yellowish at all. I don't know where this comes from.
Yes they have that light yellowish fair skin.. maybe that's why
Those are just the name of the race. Not literal skin color. A black person is not literally black and a Hispanic person is not literally brown (there are white Hispanics) yellow probably refers to the undertones
Blacks aren't black. We're brown. Very few of us are actually black. Most of us are the same color as dark Indians
White people degrading anyone different than them doesn't have to make sense, fartface.
if you take a picture with the flash light captured. Our skin takes in a yellow undertone.
It was an imperial way to divide them from the whites..
I don't know but it's stupid. All my Americans friends are like "Wow your so pale". Besides I never really see domeone with a literally yellow skin :/
Because a lot of East Asians are yellow especially the Chinese
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