Comments on: Cheekbones (part 2) http://american-family.org/2009/07/13/cheekbones-part-2/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:51:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sarah http://american-family.org/2009/07/13/cheekbones-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-116067 Sarah Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:27:41 +0000 http://american-family.org/?p=2274#comment-116067 I think you handled that great considering it was on the fly! Good for you. I also agree that mixed race kids are fetishized, but I didn't have to words to describe how people react to my infant son. I just knew it was weird that people aside from myself fawn over him. I think you handled that great considering it was on the fly! Good for you. I also agree that mixed race kids are fetishized, but I didn’t have to words to describe how people react to my infant son. I just knew it was weird that people aside from myself fawn over him.

]]> By: hapa mama too http://american-family.org/2009/07/13/cheekbones-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-113858 hapa mama too Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:05:36 +0000 http://american-family.org/?p=2274#comment-113858 Excellent post... Our kids identify with the Asian part of their culture even though one of them is half-Asian. Have you read the book "Does Anybody Else look like me? A parent's guide to raising multiracial children" by Donna Jackson Nakazawa? I enjoyed this book since the author is a white woman married to a Japanese American man and they have two kids. Excellent post… Our kids identify with the Asian part of their culture even though one of them is half-Asian.
Have you read the book “Does Anybody Else look like me? A parent’s guide to raising multiracial children” by Donna Jackson Nakazawa? I enjoyed this book since the author is a white woman married to a Japanese American man and they have two kids.

]]> By: bj http://american-family.org/2009/07/13/cheekbones-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-113529 bj Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:27:25 +0000 http://american-family.org/?p=2274#comment-113529 "What she has picked up on from my family in Hawaii is that hapa multi-racial “is always better/prettier than uni-racial- especially white”." I try to avoid the ranking (so I'm not going to say that hapa is prettier than white), but I do love being in Hawaii. It's the one place where I can actually loose my kids. BTW, the data on attractiveness and faces is more complicated than just symmetry -- it also suggests that the "average" face matters. That is, the average face is ranked as more attractive. Average correlates with symmetry (since averaging will remove imbalances). “What she has picked up on from my family in Hawaii is that hapa multi-racial “is always better/prettier than uni-racial- especially white”.”

I try to avoid the ranking (so I’m not going to say that hapa is prettier than white), but I do love being in Hawaii. It’s the one place where I can actually loose my kids.

BTW, the data on attractiveness and faces is more complicated than just symmetry — it also suggests that the “average” face matters. That is, the average face is ranked as more attractive. Average correlates with symmetry (since averaging will remove imbalances).

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