Why do people think Anime characters look "White"? Please read my arguement.

Please take the time and read this and tell me what you think. Here are traits that make people think this way and reasons for them: 1) White Skin- Okay, first to start with the skin color. No one really has completely white skin (Unless you are Michael Jackson). Whites and East Asians have the closest to white though, but they all have a tint of another color. For Whites, that color is pink and for Asians, it is yellow. Now if you look at Anime, most of the characters have white with a tint yellow. Take Naruto for example, out of Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura, only Sakura has a tint of pink. East Asians have white skin too you know! 2) Large Eyes- In anime, large eyes is one of the traits that make it unique. If characters had small eyes, like in real life, it just wouldn't be anime. I mean, the eyes in anime are huge. Way bigger than White eyes or Asian eyes. The reason characters have large eyes is not because they want to appear White, but simply because thats how Anime is like. If they wanted to be White, the eyes would be way smaller, but just a little larger than Asian eyes. Anime eyes are almost always in a circle, not an oval. Asian eyes are just a bit narrower, but both Asians and Whites don’t have eyes that are that similar to a circle. 3) Hair Color/Eye Color- Anime characters have different hair colors not to resemble Whites, but simply to be creative. It would be quite boring if every character had black hair and brown eyes. One thing to prove this is that hair color is not limited to those of the Whites (Orange, Brown, Red, Yellow) but also includes black, blue, purple, pink, green, and basically any color you can name. In my opinion, purple and blue are more close to black than White hair colors. Even white is closer to black than brown or yellow. The same thing applies with eye colors that can range from black to red to purple. If anime was built to revolve around whites, than the pink hair and red eyes wouldn’t exist. In White cartoons, because Whites have lots of diversity in appearance, the characters don’t need to have black hair. For Asians, we only have one hair color and one eye color, so we need to find a way to make it less boring. Even in White cartoons, black hair exists. In conclusion, Anime was built not to revolve around Whites, but rather to make it more interesting. Hair color and eye color are an example of this. Big eyes are too big to be White or Asian and it’s just a trait of anime style drawing. Skin color is mainly Asian as it is usually white with a tint of yellow more than it is white with a tint of pink. If anime was made to be White, names like “Mary” would be chosen over “Sakura” and western culture would replace oriental culture.

This poll was created on 2008-04-04 05:47:20 by Michael Li