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disclaimer: I am east asian. if anyone who is not white sees anything wrong with my phrasing, inaccuracies, or insensitivity, or something I missed, please feel free to add on. I’m just one person with one perspective; none of what I say should be taken as The Singular way to draw an Asian character. if you havent done so already, please take the effort to expand your view of Asian culture outside this one tutorial.

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Thank you for reading! Once again, image description for my images and OP’s images are under the cut.

Just like OP, I’m only one single person, so if anyone wants to correct me or add something I missed, then go for it. And further disclaimer, there are exceptions to everything I’ve said in this post, and it only applies to East and Southeast asian people who are either not mixed or white-mixed, as those are the hair types I’m most familiar with.

Also regarding hair, naturally curly hair absolutely is a thing in e/s/se Asia. Our hair runs the gamut from loose wavy curls to tight, kinky coiled hair.

Blonde or red hair and blue eyes are also possible in Maluku and Papua, due to genetic quirk that has nothing to do with having white heritage.

On to types of curly hair Asian people can have:

[A picture of Sandra Oh with a long, curly shag haircut, wearing a pink blouse against a white backdrop] Sandra Oh is a great example of an east Asia person with curly hair. She has wavy/curly hair.

[A picture of Aarti Sequeria, an Indian woman with medium skin tone, shoulder length medium curls, wearing a green blouse against a colorful background]

Curly hair is also common in south Asia. This is Aarti Sequeria, an Indian person with tighter curls.

Then we get to the tightest curls.

[Three pictures of young people from Maluku or Papua Indonesia. The first shows two boys in blue shirts with dark skin and curly hair. The boy on the left has loose, dark curls and the boy on the right has dark red-blonde tightly coiled curls. The second picture shows a child with very dark skin with red undertones. They have tightly curled dark red-orange hair. The last one shows a boy with dark brown skin, dark ash blonde hair, and dark grey eyes. He is not wearing a shirt. End description]

These are all people from Maluku and Papua in southeast Indonesia. This is their natural hair color and texture. Also note how warm their skin tone is. As a note, the reason these are all pictures of children is that more often than not, those with blonde hair as children will have their hair darken as they get older. Additionally, note how the roots are much darker than the ends. This is because most of the blonde hair comes from sun bleaching rather than it coming out of the scalp blonde.

My family is from Maluku and I have cousins with the same bright red hair, and both of their parents have dark brown/black hair. I also have family who have blue eyes, but both of their parents have brown eyes. So while it’s very, very uncommon, it is possible for an Asian person to be blonde. However, unless you are depicting someone from these areas, the blue eyes/blonde hair is still very much a don’t do this, especially if you are a white artist.

disclaimer: I am east asian. if anyone who is not white sees anything wrong with my phrasing, inaccuracies, or insensitivity, or something I missed, please feel free to add on. I'm just one person with one perspective; none of what I say should be taken as The Singular way to draw an Asian character. if you havent done so already, please take the effort to expand your view of Asian culture outside this one tutorial.

It turns politics into a game where "your side" wins or loses, instead of actually considering how particular policies impact our county. It makes it so much harder cognitively to learn about issues in an unbiased way (rather that just instantly adopting the party platform. It turns people into FANS of politicians who need to support their faces, instead of being constituents that politicians need to serve.

Stupidity stopped being an excuse after the 2016 elections. Your deliberate malicious manipulations are the perfect proof you’re a MAGA asshole. There is nobody who would ever believe you don’t know EXACTLY what you’re doing by trying to get people to throw their vote away.

It turns politics into a game where "your side" wins or loses, instead of actually considering how particular policies impact our county. It makes it so much harder cognitively to learn about issues in an unbiased way (rather that just instantly adopting the party platform. It turns people into FANS of politicians who need to support their faces, instead of being constituents that politicians need to serve.

Stupidity stopped being an excuse after the 2016 elections. Your deliberate malicious manipulations are the perfect proof you’re a MAGA asshole. There is nobody who would ever believe you don’t know EXACTLY what you’re doing by trying to get people to throw their vote away.

It turns politics into a game where "your side" wins or loses, instead of actually considering how particular policies impact our county. It makes it so much harder cognitively to learn about issues in an unbiased way (rather that just instantly adopting the party platform. It turns people into FANS of politicians who need to support their faces, instead of being constituents that politicians need to serve.

This supposedly has to do with the fact that the original Celts were Iberian and their ancestors migrated across the strait of Gibraltar from Africa. The red-haired and pale look typically associated with Celtic identity likely comes from admixture from Germanic peoples. Remember that everyone’s ancestors came from Africa if you go far back enough.

Evidence of this phenotype can still be seen in some people today, particularly those from Wales and other western coastal regions. For example:

Welsh presenter Alex Jones

Welsh footballer Chris Coleman

Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones who can notably pass for Hispanic.

English actor Ian McShane

It’s important to note that none of these people are immigrants or descended from immigrants. They all come from families native to the British Isles.

The take-home message here is A) don’t ever let anyone tell you British = pale and B) this

“I’ll find you in the morning sun

And when the night is new

I’ll be looking at the moon

But I’ll be seeing you”

This isn’t the first song NASA sent Opportunity. They had a playlist:

https://www.space.com/41434-mars-rover-opportunity-wakeup-music-playlist.html?fbclid=IwAR3uL6q4tOmLQTIEhiwYegGc99nv4N01HQKItpCLQiQYIptBOevNN6uIyT8

It’s on Spotify, it’s called “Opportunity, wake up!“

This is what’s great about NASA and it’s what’s great about people. These are world-class engineers. When they sent a rover to another planet they could have easily looked at it as just another scientific tool. But people don’t do that. We can and will get emotionally attached to the most inanimate of objects. We can and will anthropomorphize anything. And frankly Opportunity’s camera mast looks like a little face with eyes and everything, so why not?

So they started calling it her.

They nicknamed her Oppy.

They told her to take a selfie not long ago.

After 15 years of Oppy flipping the double bird to her original 90 day life expectancy, when a planet-spanning dust storm finally knocked her out and she stopped responding to the engineer’s wake-up messages, they started playing music for her.

And after 8 months and almost 1000 unanswered wake-up messages, when it was finally clear that Oppy was never going to wake up, the last thing these world-class NASA engineers did for their little rover on another planet

I’ve also noticed that conservatives constantly complain about “elites.” They propped up “Joe Six Pack” because they felt too many lawmakers were out of touch and they wanted people who understood the common folk. Blue collar workers are the heart and soul of America, right? 

Did you know that nearly half of congress is filled with lawyers? And the rest are mostly businessmen. What do lawyers know about my life? What do lawyers know about struggling to pay bills? What do lawyers know about what it’s like to hold a low wage job? How are they supposed to represent me and my needs?

Do you know why AOC worked as a bartender? Her father died and her mother’s jobs as a house cleaner and bus driver were not enough to fight foreclosure. So Alexandria put her career ambitions on hold and got a job as a bartender to help her mom. Conservatives are all about “family values” right? AOC valued her family so much that she worked a grueling job out of love for her mom. 

And you want to trivialize that?  

AOC knows my struggle more than Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump. I have confidence that AOC will represent me and my family’s needs more so than any lawyer or businessman who is just looking to enrich themselves. 

You have to:

Remember where everything is.

Be able to mix all the common cocktails, plus any signature drinks, accurately, every single time, from memory.

Be adaptable enough to deal with that customer (hi) who hands you their phone and says “Make this,” or who asks for “something fruity”

Possibly create those signature drinks.

Have amazing customer service skills.

Be able to deal with some schmuck spilling everything out of their mouth while drunk.

Know how to tell all the ways drunk people act so you can properly judge when to cut somebody off.

Know how to cut somebody off without them throwing a punch at you.

Practice high levels of hygiene.

Have good math skills.

Be able to work out what the heck to charge when that customer (hi) hands you their phone and says “Make this.”

Be able to track inventory.

Be able to mediate between customers. Including customers who are married.

Basic technical skills (The beer pump breaks, what do you do?)

Be fit enough to be on your feet behind the bar for several hours a day.

Stay calm no matter what.

Look appropriate at all times.

Seems like a pretty dang good preparation for politics to me.

Step 3: Write it down

You weren’t.

The AAP stance on discipline

Research on Spanking: It’s Bad for ALL Kids

10 Reasons Not to Hit Your Child

Reduced Prefrontal Cortical Gray Matter Volume in Young Adults Exposed to Harsh Corporal Punishment

Mothers’ Spanking of 3-Year-Old Children and Subsequent Risk of Children’s Aggressive Behavior

Physical Punishment and Mental Disorders: Results From a Nationally Representative US Sample

Spanking and Child Development Across the First Decade of Life

Ten (more) Reasons Not to Hit Your Kids

Seriously, Don’t Spank Your Kids

Why parents should never spank children

PLEASE DON’T SPANK YOUR CHILDREN AND WHAT TO DO INSTEAD

and there are other ways to punish them than making them associate physical pain with you and anger. talk to your fucking children. find out what’s fucking wrong.

Literally the only time I was ever spanked was when I broke a rule, did something with malicious intent, or was doing something I shouldn’t have been doing. Spankings did absolutely nothing to my relationship with my parents because it was understood that I wouldn’t get spanked if I just stayed out of trouble and didn’t do anything with the intent to upset someone.

Plus every single time I was spanked my parents would tell me exactly why I was being spanked abd how many spankings I would receive as a punishment beforehand. Then afterwards they would ask me why I was spanked so that they knew that I understood that they weren’t spanking me because they hated me, but instead because I did something I wasn’t supposed to.

Have you considered that hitting children and then telling them “mommy loves you, but I HAD to hit you because you deserved it. Sometimes the people who you WILL hurt you and it will be your fault because you were bad” is a BAD lesson for children?

Also “my parents hit me and I WILL hit my own children” is not the strong argument you think it is. All that shows is that you haven’t learned any way other than violence to solve issues with children.

These are long term effects and you DO NOT and CAN NOT know how they will affect a kid until the damage is done. We know there is a risk, we know it is not best practice, we know there are better and safer alternatives. If you choose to hit your kids anyway, then you have decided that it was easier to risk their mental health than it was to learn nonviolent parenting techniques, and THEY have to live with that.

Also if an experience was truly traumatic for a child, you WILL be able to tell with in a few days. Children become very quiet and usually will not want to talk about what happened. They will more of less avoid eye contact with people and many times will either isolate themselves or will only spend their time with a person they feel safe with. Of course there’s other symptoms abd each child is an individual, but these are fairly prevalent.

While a child can take psychological trauma from the duration in which a traumatic event lasted, no child (or even adult for that matter) will go through a traumatic experience and feel nothing until years later and then suddenly have trauma from that experience.

And regarding your links you posted, I couldn’t use half of those in an academic setting. At the university level they are not considered credible because they don’t come directly from academic journals and if I used them in an essay to prove my points I would not get credit for the essay. Also remember, I’m getting a degree in psychology. I’m studying to be a doctoral holding psychologist. I also have extensive experience in the mental health field, especially with childhood depression and childhood ADHD. I’m not some random person on the internet trying to discredit science. This is my degree, my career, and I’m educated regarding this area.

And also, for the record, my degree is in education, with studies in early childhood psychology and pedagogy. So if you wanna talk about what methods are the most effective at teaching children, I promise you, HITTING them doesnt make the list.

But yes, there are a LOT of links up there and many of them arent the studies themselves. Lets just focus on this one.