Adam and Eve also... for obvious reasons.
Here is a family photo of a rising star in the GOP, Michigan Senator candidate John James:
Posted on 08/22/2018 10:00:02 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Mr. Jimenez, a model, has appeared in ads for Levi's, DKNY and Aldo, but he is anything but a conventional pretty face. His steeply raked cheekbones, dreadlocks and jet-colored eyes, suggest a background that might be Mongolian, American Indian or Chinese. In fact he is Colombian by birth, a product of that country's mixed racial heritage, and he fits right in with the melting-pot aesthetic of the downtown scene. It is also a look that is reflected in the latest youth marketing trend: using faces that are ethnically ambiguous.
Ad campaigns for Louis Vuitton, YSL Beauty and H&M stores have all purposely highlighted models with racially indeterminate features. Or consider the careers of movie stars like Vin Diesel, Lisa Bonet and Jessica Alba, whose popularity with young audiences seems due in part to the tease over whether they are black, white, Hispanic, American Indian or some combination.
''Today what's ethnically neutral, diverse or ambiguous has tremendous appeal,'' said Ron Berger, the chief executive of Euro RSCG MVBMS Partners in New York, an advertising agency and trend research company whose clients include Polaroid and Yahoo. ''Both in the mainstream and at the high end of the marketplace, what is perceived as good, desirable, successful is often a face whose heritage is hard to pin down.''
Ambiguity is chic, especially among the under-25 members of Generation Y, the most racially diverse population in the nation's history. Teen People's current issue, devoted to beauty, features makeovers of girls whose backgrounds are identified on full-page head shots as ''Puerto Rican and Italian-American'' and ''Finnish-German-Irish- and Scotch-American.''
'We're seeing more of a desire for the exotic, left-of-center beauty that transcends race or class,'' Amy Barnett, the magazine's managing editor. ''It is changing the face of American beauty.''
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Don't know what "left of center" means when applied to here. Politically speaking, I actually think ethnic ambiguity is the left's worst nightmare. Can't neatly label and play the same identity politics when so many racial lines are becoming blurred -- and for the better. Article is 15 years old, but truer now than then.
The Times is so nauseatingly old-fashioned.
“Replacing the founding stock of our Nation is cool!”
and
“White people are lame - we don’t need or want them!”
The Times still thinks Tribeca is hip and edgy.
Ethnically ambiguous, racially ambiguous, gender ambiguous, morally ambiguous... chaos?
Reminds me of the study from years back about what we would look like after every race had mingled. I did some quick searches but couldn’t find it other than an article from 2013 about the average face within several countries.
Scotch-American
Scotch it’s a drink
Ask any SCOTSMAN
Dumb azzes
Indeed. How do Democrats pander to, and play identity politics with these people?
At first I thought the title said “ethically ambiguous”, which actually is a fitting description for a lot of millennials.
So.... Brazil.
(Not exactly the culture I would choose to emulate overall, but they do seem to have a higher-than-normal percentage of very attractive people. Not surprising that a model would choose to go that way.)
It’s not Italian American it’s just American. We don’t get any special points for hyphenating our nationality. I guess we aren’t special like Hispanics and Mexicans who get affirmative action for some reason. It’s all politics because there is no other reason.
Adam and Eve also... for obvious reasons.
Here is a family photo of a rising star in the GOP, Michigan Senator candidate John James:
I think the cheekbones are overdone.
Bring back Twiggy!
... a quarter century ago, back when computer imaging was still almost something new and there still was a Time magazine ...
That appears to be the one :)
Omar Sharif made a career out this...
Non-homogeneous generally, non-caucasian specifically.
Just like they do not want unmistakably masculine heterosexual males around.
Yep. Both apply.
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