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The Hooded Utilitarian points out to people who say "Why do Japanese manga artists draw everyone as white?" that if you look at the classic Superman design, he has black hair and narrow, dark eyes. They don't code as Asian to us, because of the context. If American readers look at just the hair and eyes as racial indicators in manga, why aren't they looking at just the hair and eyes on Superman?
[I started maundering on here about catching myself, when in Japan, not noticing certain physical characteristics that I normally code as "Asian", because they were so common - I just noticed the ones that differed from the norm. And that on the train I'd idly think that someone was a dead ringer for a person I knew back home, then catch myself and realize that if I put the two next to each other, a lot of the people back home would say "They don't look that much alike! One's Asian and one's white!" And then after going on about that for a paragraph or so, I realized I didn't have much of a conclusion to say so I deleted it all and wrote this instead, which is just as long as that was, but at least comes to some sort of end right about ... now.]
[I started maundering on here about catching myself, when in Japan, not noticing certain physical characteristics that I normally code as "Asian", because they were so common - I just noticed the ones that differed from the norm. And that on the train I'd idly think that someone was a dead ringer for a person I knew back home, then catch myself and realize that if I put the two next to each other, a lot of the people back home would say "They don't look that much alike! One's Asian and one's white!" And then after going on about that for a paragraph or so, I realized I didn't have much of a conclusion to say so I deleted it all and wrote this instead, which is just as long as that was, but at least comes to some sort of end right about ... now.]