Please take this as a compliment, because she is amazing and precious. I used to have a bunch of acquaintances and neighbors from Soviet blok countries, and it always struck me a little differently to see "white people" with "Asian eyes". It's really common to see pasty-white Russians and Kazakhs with sandy or blond hair and these slightly squinted, often blue, eyes. Americans have this visual of Russians looking like Maria Sharipova or Milla Jovovich (Ukrainian, I know) or an old woman in a babushka. But you can wander across nine time zones of the former USSR and see beautiful faces like this one that aren't quite European but aren't quite Mongolian. It may be an artifact of politics that we don't "see more central Asian people" in our usual spectrum of faces. More's the pity.
damnedspot on February 3rd, 2022 at 14:35 UTC »
It looks like she’s having an idea.
max on February 3rd, 2022 at 15:06 UTC »
i know that it was only a stereotype, but i can now understand why people used to say that Kazakh homes had very clean ceilings.
CrudelyAnimated on February 3rd, 2022 at 16:44 UTC »
Please take this as a compliment, because she is amazing and precious. I used to have a bunch of acquaintances and neighbors from Soviet blok countries, and it always struck me a little differently to see "white people" with "Asian eyes". It's really common to see pasty-white Russians and Kazakhs with sandy or blond hair and these slightly squinted, often blue, eyes. Americans have this visual of Russians looking like Maria Sharipova or Milla Jovovich (Ukrainian, I know) or an old woman in a babushka. But you can wander across nine time zones of the former USSR and see beautiful faces like this one that aren't quite European but aren't quite Mongolian. It may be an artifact of politics that we don't "see more central Asian people" in our usual spectrum of faces. More's the pity.