Good afternoon, sisters!
I haven't seen such a topic in a long time, from the official media to bloggers to almost everyone around them:
Is squinting an insult to China? Some people have even raised this topic to the level of squinting small eyes, not worthy of being Chinese?
To prevent some girls from 2G Internet, have not heard of it, before discussing I will first give you this matter
At the beginning, in November, Dior released a group of promotional videos filmed by Chen Man, and because of the excessively hades painting style, he was directly scolded on the hot search.
Then someone pulled out the cover of a group of magazines called "Twelve Colors of China" that Chen Man had photographed for a British magazine several years ago.
Let's not say whether the painting style is hades, just say that this character makeup is really related to "China"?
However, at this time, everyone's discussion points are "whether Chen Man deliberately uglys the Chinese in order to cater to the Western hades aesthetic", which is basically not much controversy.
Until the movie "Lion Boy" began to be publicized and released, suddenly a wave of people questioned why the protagonist was painted as a "squinting eye", was it to cater to the stereotype and insult of the West on Chinese.
After that, some netizens pulled out the advertisement of three squirrels for 19 years, and the model in the picture painted a squinting makeup, which was quite similar to the previous D&G advertising image, so some people also began to question the insult of the three squirrels.
In this limelight, Mercedes-Benz has not released the latest advertisements, and the model is also a "squint" of Yishui.
Immediately after, the model of the three squirrel advertisements, the real person responded, and threw out the soul question "Born to look like this, shouldn't small eyes be Chinese?" ”
This directly triggered public opinion, saying anything.
Some people say that squinting is the stereotype of Westerners on Chinese, which is insulting; others say that many friends around them are squinting, and the aesthetic is diverse.
Up to now, even the official media People's Daily commentary has joined the discussion, this development is something I did not expect...
At present, there is actually no definite conclusion on this matter, and when I mention this today, I do not want to tell you any big truth.
Just from an aesthetic point of view, especially after contacting the fashion circle, I still want to talk about my own views on this matter
How does "squinting" hook up with insulting China? This has to mention the "yellow peril theory".
The Yellow Peril theory is an ultra-nationalist theory formed in the 19th century, arguing that the yellow race is a scourge, and the white people should join forces to resist the yellow race.
Under this argument, a villain comic image was born - Fu Manchu. In terms of rhetoric, everyone generally believes that Fu Manchu is an anthropomorphic image of the Western Yellow Peril Theory, but what does he look like?
It is squinting eyes + hanging eyes, a sinister and ugly look
Although later due to the boycott of Fu Manchu movement launched by Chinese Americans, this image was forbidden to appear.
But as long as the comics linked to insults, they all like to shape the characters into similar, squinting eyes + hanging eyes.
At this point, in the eyes of many Westerners, the image of Asians has been represented by squinting eyes.
When many Westerners insult China, they also like to use their fingers to pull up their eyes to form squints to provoke.
A few years ago, before the Victoria's Secret show came to Shanghai, the model gigi was stamped and insulted because she posted a squinting action on the social platform, and even the qualification of the big show was cancelled.
Before the Serbian women's volleyball team against the Thai women's volleyball team, some people also made this move, which directly caused the Thais to jointly petition, and finally the team member was also fined + banned.
On the Juventus women's soccer team, one of the players made a squinting gesture during an interview, and later had to apologize for "making this anti-Asian posture".
It can be said that the deliberate act of squinting is definitely a "discriminatory" action recognized by both Westerners and Asians.
But note that the point here is to deliberately pull out or highlight and ugly squints, rather than "innate squinting characteristics".
The difference is that you can understand it by looking at a few comparison charts.
These girls, obviously in the case of normal makeup and styling, are also comfortable even if they are not beautiful women in the traditional sense.
Obviously, everyone knows what is "beauty in the eyes of the public"
What we object to is the deliberate association of squinting with various elements and movements that make people physically uncomfortable.
▲ This action is really not a good intention
And in order to flatter Western aesthetics, cater to Western racial stereotypes of East Asians, and even stigmatize Chinese normal image!
If it is not deliberately "ugly squinting small eyes", it is normal makeup. Like this
such
And so on
No one really says that it is "insulting China" and "cannot be Chinese" and "cannot be a chinese".
Spreading everyone's anger at the behavior of "deliberately ugly squinting" to "the Chinese people look down on the squinting small-eyed crowd" can only be said to be either stupid or bad.
It's like what you point to a mess and say it is, and then a group of people, in order to refute that it is not, throw this lump into a clean meal, and then scold the rice, in order to stir up dissension and make the general public blur the attention of this one.
Even injured many people by mistake.
Forgive me for being rude, it's the first time I've used such a blunt description, and it's really bad for some people.
For this kind of argument, I guess many girls are tired of watching, most of them have disgusting emotions, and even feel that "what is noisy, is it not good for everyone to take a step back?" ”
I may feel the same way about other things, but as a half-fashion person, I feel that there is a need to argue and discuss the point of squinting.
Because to a certain extent, it is actually the awakening of our aesthetic consciousness, and it is the Chinese people who want to "snatch back the aesthetic discourse power" from the hands of the West.
People may not understand this, so I'll give you a few
When the post-90s were young, they should have seen the list of gods, right? In addition to the superb acting skills of the actors and the wonderful plot, everyone must also feel that they do not understand the obvious "dragging their legs" costumes.
Good ancient Chinese mythology, why do they dress up one by one with the same painting style as ancient Rome?
The reason behind it is that the crew does not care? Isn't there an aesthetic?
Neither! Many years later, I watched the interview of Teacher Lan Tianye, played by Jiang Ziya, and learned that the crew had originally designed the costumes according to the national style;
But because this TV series is co-produced, a "avant-garde and fashionable Hong Kong designer" was finally parachuted in, and according to his "high-end aesthetic" of receiving Western education, it was changed to the last flowery and cheap appearance we saw.
Including some time ago, the previous generation of Chinese supermodels who brushed the screen on the whole network, everyone looked at the picture and sighed, the previous generation of supermodels have a good appearance and a dignified atmosphere! Why can't I see it now?
Because starting from Lu Yan, the West finally found the "senior face" they wanted to represent Asians, and after that, all the supermodels who could go international were almost all representatives of the "senior face".
Of course, saying this is not to think that the "high-level faces" are not good-looking, after all, the aesthetic is diverse, Liu Wen, Ju Xiaowen... Of course it was beautiful.
But the problem is that under the aesthetic discourse power of the West, it seems that only this kind of appearance is advanced.
Most of the "oriental beauty" models that conform to the aesthetics of the Chinese people
Instead, it was rejected by the fashion circle as "not oriental enough" and "not advanced enough".
Even the minds of ordinary people have been assimilated, and when they see that the appearance is not "small eyes, high cheekbones and high-grade faces", they will say: "Although beautiful, it is really not advanced and prominent."
Have you ever thought that aesthetic diversification is said, but why can the "high-end face" models that meet the Western aesthetic go farther and farther, and the "Oriental face models" that meet the aesthetics of the Chinese people are rejected by the international fashion circle again and again?
Even going back to the previous Chen Man, to say that her photography and aesthetics are not good? Impossible, under her hands, there are many stars born.
It can be seen that she knows what beauty is
So why is it that once the picture of "facing the international" is taken, her painting style begins to become haunted?
In the final analysis, it is only in the hands of Westerners that the aesthetic discourse power is in the hands of Westerners, who are "kidnapped" by the subtle Western aesthetics in order to cater to Western authorities.
So this matter, everyone is arguing so fiercely, I don't think it's a bad thing.
At least it can make the West and capital understand that more and more Chinese people are saying no to Western standards that do not conform to Chinese aesthetics!
Okay, that's it for today.
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