Aside from that uncommon hair colors are used in anime to immediately distinguish a character, Japanese people don't see anime characters as white, they see them as Japanese; similar to how Americans see The Simpsons as white despite Marge having blue hair and yellow skin.
I'm reminded a bit of an article talking about people stereotyping Korean beauty standards as them wanting to "emulate whiteness", when in actuality their beauty standards are far better explained by their own pre-colonialist history, and that several cosmetic procedures are decidedly not similar to the features of Caucasians.
I mean, I genuinely fail to see how western colonialism hasn't entrenched itself in Japanese and Korean standards of beauty when 20% of young Korean women undergo cosmetic surgery often times to modify epicanthic folds and make their noses look more caucasian, and when, well, a significant proportion of Anime characters have blue eyes, blonde hair, and caucasian noses along with other caucasian features. But I'd be interested to read this article, because atm I just fail to grasp the idea the pre-colonialist history has much to do with it.
you're dodging the question. You just said there were 0 blonde Japanese people in response to my point it's slightly more realistic than all the fake hair colors we see, such as blood red, green, blue, purple, pink, etc.
You know what, even if it's besides the point since a vast amount Anime characters have caucasian features unlike the majority of the population and you're the one trying to muddy the argument by pointing to outliers, can you show me an example of a single Japanese person (mixed race or otherwise) in Japan with natural blonde hair?
The streamer Pikamee is mixed-race and says she has naturally blonde hair. Anyway, your other point about more caucasian features is interesting. I can think of a lot of cases where it would make sense, like Full Metal Alchemist which is set in basically Germany or Re:Zero where it is set in a place based somewhat on european fantasy. But it does show up in other weird places.
i mean they pretty much are lol How many times have you see naturally blonde Japanese people?
Aside from that uncommon hair colors are used in anime to immediately distinguish a character, Japanese people don't see anime characters as white, they see them as Japanese; similar to how Americans see The Simpsons as white despite Marge having blue hair and yellow skin.
I'm reminded a bit of an article talking about people stereotyping Korean beauty standards as them wanting to "emulate whiteness", when in actuality their beauty standards are far better explained by their own pre-colonialist history, and that several cosmetic procedures are decidedly not similar to the features of Caucasians.
I mean, I genuinely fail to see how western colonialism hasn't entrenched itself in Japanese and Korean standards of beauty when 20% of young Korean women undergo cosmetic surgery often times to modify epicanthic folds and make their noses look more caucasian, and when, well, a significant proportion of Anime characters have blue eyes, blonde hair, and caucasian noses along with other caucasian features. But I'd be interested to read this article, because atm I just fail to grasp the idea the pre-colonialist history has much to do with it.
more than I've seen naturally purple-haired or green.
the answer is zero
Mixed race people raised in Japan are what exactly, in your measurement?
They make up 50% of the population, as depicted in Anime?
you're dodging the question. You just said there were 0 blonde Japanese people in response to my point it's slightly more realistic than all the fake hair colors we see, such as blood red, green, blue, purple, pink, etc.
You know what, even if it's besides the point since a vast amount Anime characters have caucasian features unlike the majority of the population and you're the one trying to muddy the argument by pointing to outliers, can you show me an example of a single Japanese person (mixed race or otherwise) in Japan with natural blonde hair?
The streamer Pikamee is mixed-race and says she has naturally blonde hair. Anyway, your other point about more caucasian features is interesting. I can think of a lot of cases where it would make sense, like Full Metal Alchemist which is set in basically Germany or Re:Zero where it is set in a place based somewhat on european fantasy. But it does show up in other weird places.