Eurasian Beauties

[nanker_phledge]

And I made a typo , I meant 'south east Asia' .Nevermind , I'm just bothered with that issue.

And you're right .

[Pinky*]

hey, sorry if i offended you nanker!
i guess it depends on the person..
my stepfather is italian/romanian/turkish and he insists.. insists that turkey is more european than asian..
i think its just that the word asian is so muddled now, which is why the confusion.. to some ppl, asian defines race, some ppl, just a continental expression.. but anyway..

[eurofashionjunki]

So is Starzpeople the best model agency in Hong Kong? I just got accepted and see quite a few eurasians there already. I'm half korean/english.

[oolie coco]

The pictures in this thread are wonderful

[lady_dilandau]

Originally Posted by morbidexistence

Anyone knows if Saba is an asian last name? I thought it could be japanese...
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No Saba isn't a Japanese last name

The girls on this thread are beautiful. Where are some of the hot eurasian males ^.~

[bleuFunk]

I think Olivia Munn is adorable - she's part Japanese and part something else (not sure). She's a TV Host.

[from beyondhollywood.com]

[sexydaydreamer]

Clumping the Indians, pakistinians, and all the other "middle eastern" groups with Eastern Asians is like separated nothern Africans from southern Africans; it's ridiculous. They are completely different. I also hate it when people separate Egypt, Morroco, Algeria, and Libya from Africa. It's stupid, and a lot of times racist. (But that is another story for another day.)

Btw, does anyone know if Sophie Marceau is Eurasian??? She's gorgeous!!!



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She looks like she could be Eurasian.

[Melisande]

Originally Posted by sexydaydreamer

Clumping the Indians, pakistinians, and all the other "middle eastern" groups with Eastern Asians is like separated nothern Africans from southern Africans; it's ridiculous. They are completely different. I also hate it when people separate Egypt, Morroco, Algeria, and Libya from Africa. It's stupid, and a lot of times racist. (But that is another story for another day.)
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Well, do you want to clump or not?

If you want to divide by continents, Asia is Asia, Africa is Africa.

If you want to go by culture, do get your facts straight before you cry racism: India/Pakistani culture is completely different from Middle Eastern culture. Which is, as you say, completely different from Japanese and Korean East Asian culture.
The Maghreb countries like Morocco use Arabic and have a Mediterranean/Islamic/Arab culture, and along with their Napoleonic invasions and Spanish influences, make them, again, completely different from southern and central African cultures. Countries situated between cultures, like Turkey, are bound to be a mix.

You either go with the contintents and stick with it, or discuss the cultures knowledgeably. It's got nothing to do with racism.

Eurasian is a confusing term to begin with, and rather outdated...

[Ungaro Kitty]

Ummmm it seems the whole thread is based on the premise that "Eurasian" means only a MIX of Europeans and Asians - which is wrong. A Eurasian is ANYONE from either Europe OR Asia (or a mix).

So Claudia is just as Eurasian as any half Brit-half Japanese. There ya go,,,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia

[Melisande]

Originally Posted by Ungaro Kitty

Ummmm it seems the whole thread is based on the premise that "Eurasian" means only a MIX of Europeans and Asians - which is wrong. A Eurasian is ANYONE from either Europe OR Asia (or a mix).

So Claudia is just as Eurasian as any half Brit-half Japanese. There ya go,,,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia

That's right, thank you Ungaro!
I always wondered why this thread was separate from the biracial/mixed thread anyway...
Some people are making very unenlightened comments on both threads, it's ridiculous.

A large percentage of Arabs and North Africans are fair-skinned, blonde, blue-eyed Caucasians.

Many Russians are indistinguishable from the Japanese.

Race is not contingent upon continents or countries, period.

[Ungaro Kitty]

Originally Posted by Melisande

That's right, thank you Ungaro!
I always wondered why this thread was separate from the biracial/mixed thread anyway...
Some people are making very unenlightened comments on both threads, it's ridiculous.

A large percentage of Arabs and North Africans are fair-skinned, blonde, blue-eyed Caucasians.

Many Russians are indistinguishable from the Japanese.

Race is not contingent upon continents or countries, period.

What you are saying is not what I was trying to say. I'm not trying to say Europeans and Asians are the same people, just that people have been using the word Eurasian wrong.

For example, a "Russian" who is indistinguishable from a Japanese person, is not ethnically a Russian person. They might be from those tribes out east. They might have Russian citizenship but this is different from being ethnically Russian. And in most of Europe that is how people think about nationality.

And I don't believe your large percentage of Arabs are blonde. Maybe a few. I have heard about the Bedouins, but that's about it. The rest that are blonde are probably mixed from the years of French, etc. colonization.

[Melisande]

Hey Ungaro, thanks for your response!

Originally Posted by Ungaro Kitty

What you are saying is not what I was trying to say. I'm not trying to say Europeans and Asians are the same people, just that people have been using the word Eurasian wrong.

Oh wait, what you are saying that I was saying...is not what I was saying either ! I think we were saying the same thing.

Just one thing though...I don't know my Russian history far back enough to know exactly how/when the ethnicities have mixed, so I won't go into that, but how do we define "ethnically Russian"? I know what you're saying and am almost tempted to agree in certain cases...but I still think it's potentially very dangerous to associate countries with ethnicities or "races" and dismiss other groups as mere "citizens"...I mean, look at the US. Nations are very modern constructs in human history, throughout which borders have been changing and people migrating.

I do stand by what I say about the Arabs...the ethnic mix goes much further back than French colonization...especially the Mediterranean countries like Lebanon, Syria, etc. (as opposed to the Gulf countries) lie at the juncture between Europe, Asia and Africa, and their ethnic mix reflects that. They've been part of the Roman Empire, mixed with the Crusaders, the Spanish, the Ottoman Empire...way before the British and the French colonization...and actually, I wouldn't be exaggerating when I say that half the Arabs I know (I know very very many, mostly from the northwestern side though ) are naturally very fair skinned with light brown hair, obviously so-called Caucasian. I'm just saying that it is a common misconception.

Anyway...I wouldn't have delved into this if it was off topic, but as it were, I'm questioning the topic itself. I still wonder why this topic is separate from the "biracial/mixed models" thread.
Unless we can define this thread, perhaps mods would like to merge them?

[Melisande]

Originally Posted by Melisande

I do stand by what I say about the Arabs...the ethnic mix goes much further back than French colonization...especially the Mediterranean countries like Lebanon, Syria, etc. (as opposed to the Gulf countries) lie at the juncture between Europe, Asia and Africa, and their ethnic mix reflects that. They've been part of the Roman Empire, mixed with the Crusaders, the Spanish, the Ottoman Empire...way before the British and the French colonization...and actually, I wouldn't be exaggerating when I say that half the Arabs I know (I know very very many, mostly from the northwestern side though ) are naturally very fair skinned with light brown hair, obviously so-called Caucasian. I'm just saying that it is a common misconception.

When you think about it, one could even say that it's part of one culture from a single area...the Mediterranean. The culture and ethnicities are so similar whereas they politically divided into three different continents...that's why countries like Turkey and Cyprus are having a hard time... Anyway, enough about that!

[bleuFunk]

I think you guys are arguing semantics...

Eur·a·sian [ yoo ráyzh'n, yoo ráysh'n ]

noun (plural Eur·a·sians)Definition: somebody of European and Asian descent: somebody of both European and Asian descent

adjective Definition: 1. of Europe and Asia: relating to the land mass consisting of the continents of Europe and Asia

2. of European and Asian descent: being of both European and Asian descent

[bleuFunk]

Oh, also - i read somewhere that the term came into "popular" usage during British colonization of India, and was at that time used to refer to someone born of British/Indian descent.

Just a useless tidbit. I find etymology interesting.