Lou Jing is half Chinese, half African American. Seems like her mother is Chinese and had an extra-marital affair, who then skipped town before Lou Jing was born. The mother's Chinese husband seems to have left shortly after, so Mom raised Lou Jing herself. They live in Shanghai, and aside from her appearance Lou Jing is just another Chinese 20 year old. Well, I think so anyways. There is this show in China called 加油！东方天使 - roughly translatable into "Let's Go! Oriental Angel." It's like American Idol except that it is only for girls (There is a partner program called Let's Go! Good Boys (加油！好男儿) for the men-folk) and Lou Jing was one of the 5 top finalists. What doesn't surprise but still sickens me is that this TV show monopolized on Lou Jing's story to help ratings, and it worked.
She didn't win, but her presence has sparked a lot of debate about the fact that she is half Black and what that means to China. There have been all kinds of horrible web posts with stupid racist people condemning this poor girl because of her heritage. The country has 56 different recognized ethnicities, but 90% of the population is Han Chinese. After living in Japan which is even more homogeneous than that, I understand the Chinese's reaction to people who look different. I don't like it, but when you live somewhere your whole life and everyone looks the same, you tend to stare at those who stand out.
Now as an American (correction- an unbiased intelligent American), I have no problem with race. It really truly baffles me that anyone does. Who the fuck cares what someone looks like? Would it really be better if everyone looked the same? Well, in a way I think it might, but that won't happen for thousands of years. I speak of the wonders of multi-ethnic people and their advantages. Take a dog, for example. A mutt is more likely to be healthy than a pure-bred because by its nature it is more resilient to disease. Pure-breeds can have congenital diseases from being inbred for centuries. It's the same with people. Certain races are more prone to certain inflictions than others. People that are multi-ethnic are more resilient.
Also, I think that by and large mulit-racial people are more attractive. That is not always the case, but there has been a surge in the last decade of models, movie-stars, sports figures, presidents, etc. that claim multi-ethnic backgrounds. My friend Seb is Jamaican, Chinese, Irish and I'm sure something else; and the ladies seem to like him. In fact, most people I know that are various ethnicities are attractive.
I mean case in point:
English/Irish/Scottish/Cherokee + Russian/Italian =
Perfect.So here is my theory. If people were to stop all this racial, cultural, ethnic bullshit and just fuck everyone else, I think in a thousand plus years we could have a single, golden-ish race of healthy attractive humans that didn't fight. Moral? Go bump jumblies with someone who doesn't look like you.
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