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racist comments from a photographer
Call Me Caitlin wrote: If you don't want to be portrayed as Asian that is perfectly fine and obviously your choice. Just try not to get too bent out of shape when a photographer looks to emphasize what he/she finds most unique and interesting in your look. Jul 25 13 05:00 pm Link "Oriental" is a racial slur? Really? In German it isn't. It means "from the Orient". It's like saying "European" about people from Europe. Jul 25 13 05:01 pm Link I'm asian. My friends that are asian use FOB to describe someone that, is recently arrived. It can sound somewhat derogatory because it depicts a person that is really awkward, naive and comical (if you think about the stereotype), a different way of dressing, speaking, not fitting in, etc. But if I were doing a photoshoot and the photographer wanted me to "play" someone that was an fob asian, or german, or fresh off a boat from whatever country, I don't think that would offend me. Best choice of words? Probably not. All the asians that I know are pretty good at slamming their own race, including thai, filipino, japanese, chinese etc.  It takes the power away from the racists imo.Jul 25 13 05:01 pm Link Babalon Salome wrote: Here it's reserved for things like carpets, not people. Jul 25 13 05:02 pm Link Call Me Caitlin wrote: I'm sorry, I would only consider it to be a quicker/more efficient term than trying to describe people of foreign descent who have not become Americanized and who would seem still strongly tied to the communities/traditions they have left. Jul 25 13 05:02 pm Link Babalon Salome wrote: Yeah, we can be kinda sensitive to that one Jul 25 13 05:02 pm Link Call Me Caitlin wrote: How would you describe what he was looking for? Jul 25 13 05:03 pm Link Anna Kl wrote: Applicable in any situation. Jul 25 13 05:06 pm Link Eclectic Vision wrote: He could have said something along the lines of, "I'm looking for a person of Asian descent." Jul 25 13 05:07 pm Link de0rbit wrote: Oh. OK. I had no idea. Jul 25 13 05:08 pm Link Seems like your reaction is directly related to your insecurity of being part asian. Perhaps some soul searching might be on the cards? Jul 25 13 05:09 pm Link Elizabeta Rosandic wrote: In my family we called them the old greaseballs. Lovingly of course. lol Jul 25 13 05:10 pm Link DP Jul 25 13 05:10 pm Link R.EYE.R wrote: I don't see how I'm insecure about being Asian... Jul 25 13 05:11 pm Link Jul 25 13 05:12 pm Link Call Me Caitlin wrote: You are a great mix, a hint of asian and very pretty. Some might equate that with possessing non traditional features. Maybe he wanted to play up the asian-ness. Jul 25 13 05:13 pm Link Call Me Caitlin wrote: That doesn't really describe the look it sounds like he was going for. He already knew you were of Asian decent. He wanted a specific look concept. I don't believe there was a better way to describe what he wanted. Jul 25 13 05:13 pm Link Eclectic Vision wrote:
Jul 25 13 05:14 pm Link Call Me Caitlin wrote: I don't see how a secure in being asian person would take offense in the photographer's statement... Jul 25 13 05:14 pm Link I don't see why this photographer sought out me, instead of a full Asian model. Why choose a hapa if you want an Asian themed shoot? Jul 25 13 05:15 pm Link the OP seems too sensitive to work with. Jul 25 13 05:16 pm Link Jerry Nemeth wrote: yup. Jul 25 13 05:17 pm Link Call Me Caitlin wrote: Hapa? Jul 25 13 05:17 pm Link political correctness will be the death of a civil society with individual liberty - actual racist or sexist or homophobic behavior is one thing - word policing is something else altogether... Jul 25 13 05:18 pm Link Call Me Caitlin wrote: I'm not sure if people would understand what a "hapa" is, besides, you have the look he wanted, so take that as a compliment. Jul 25 13 05:19 pm Link Giacomo Cirrincioni wrote: A term to describe half Asian, half white. Jul 25 13 05:19 pm Link Giacomo Cirrincioni wrote: I'm from Hawaii. Hapa is like a mix. So if someone is a Hapa Haole, they are half white half asian. I know some that don't like that term either. Jul 25 13 05:20 pm Link Call Me Caitlin wrote: LOL no. Jul 25 13 05:21 pm Link Jerry Nemeth wrote: I hope to have the chance to find out. As it stands now, I'm quite willing to take the chance. Jul 25 13 05:21 pm Link Call Me Caitlin wrote: Sounds like you might have "Racial Paranoia". It is in epidemic proportions since Obama took office and he along with the liberal media have been pumping a race war which is dividing this country. Jul 25 13 05:21 pm Link Giacomo Cirrincioni wrote: Hapa is Hawaiian for half, it's used to describe someone who is half one ethnicity and half another. Hapa Haoli means half caucasian. Jul 25 13 05:21 pm Link And then you use a derogatory term in reference to yourself further proving the point.. Jul 25 13 05:22 pm Link Art of the nude wrote: And we will be reading about you. Jul 25 13 05:23 pm Link Giacomo Cirrincioni wrote: Call Me Caitlin wrote: Yes.. Jul 25 13 05:25 pm Link Here a fob is a keychain. Jul 25 13 05:25 pm Link Jerry Nemeth wrote: In Crime Watch most likely Jul 25 13 05:25 pm Link Call Me Caitlin wrote: As I said earlier, because you are hot! Jul 25 13 05:26 pm Link R.EYE.R wrote: Is there any reason you need to be so snarky to me? Jul 25 13 05:27 pm Link LUNA_PHOTOGRAPHY wrote:
Jul 25 13 05:29 pm Link To my untrained British ears, 'fresh off the boat' is particularly derogatory. Almost as bad as the word 'wetbacks'. Appreciate immigrants and recent descendants play around with the term but I would never use it. Mind you the only person I have ever heard use the term was half American, half Vietnamese, and ironically he got the chance to tell me off for using the word 'oriental' which to me just describes people from what in old fashioned terms was called 'the Orient'. I would certainly hesitate to use the word though and would play safe with 'SE Asian'. (In the UK Asian usually is taken to mean Pakistani or Indian). One thing I really don't understand - fob is surely about how you behave, rather than how you look. How do you *look* fob? Jul 25 13 05:29 pm Link |
