Why caucasians are good looking

In a second experiment, test subjects had to pinpoint an emotion: surprise, fear, disgust or joy. Asians mostly focused on the eyes and not enough on the mouth, which meant some emotions were wrongly identified.

They confused fear and surprise as well as disgust and anger," says Blais. Cultural or biological causes, Blais says, might explain why humans don't read faces in a universal fashion.

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When there were Asian male characters in Western media, they were typically a source of comic relief — sometimes offensive — or some sort of professional like a doctor who was more or less an expositional prop. They were at best likable, at worst stereotypical. They were rarely romantic, rarely sexy. But even representation within Asian media leaves something to be desired.

In Korea, there are only so many different kinds of bodies entertainment industries favor, and lately, they like their men slim and androgynous. That may feed into the myth that Asian men are inherently small and effeminate. But remember that these men are only a sliver of the Asian male population. White men? The ugly truth is, some of our friends and family see having white friends as some sort of social advancement. Oh, you have white friends in college?

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