I’ve had the idea for this video for quite some time and had been planning on releasing it this week. Recent events however made me hesitant about making this video right now. I was at a bit of a fork in the road. I didn’t want to seem like I was capitalising on the awful rise of anti-asia sentiment in the world. However I felt like this was important information to share at this time. Hopefully this video will education some people who might have needed it.

@IndonesiaMajapahitNDPCA

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Name Explanian Boi!

@parcoli1311

3 жыл бұрын

As a Hongkonger, I don't mind being called yellow. If I have to pick a colour though, I would choose white, which is arguably closer to my skin tone. To the best of my knowledge, Chinese people generally happily call themselves yellow「黃種人」, probably because of the association of the colour yellow with the emperor. Non-Chinese, on the other hand, seldom call themselves yellow.

@GuyNamedSean

3 жыл бұрын

I think you're right to release it at this time. Education is the panacea against intolerance. If people better understand the history of racist sentiments, it can help them work their way out of those negative perceptions.

@Ggdivhjkjl

3 жыл бұрын

You are aware that religion is illegal in the area controlled by the Chinese Communist Party aren't you? It's only tolerated, in spite of being officially illegal, for the purpose of monitoring religious activity that it might be more effectively suppressed.

@WaterShowsProd

3 жыл бұрын

I've always wondered, "why yellow?" so I found this video very interesting. Thai people refer to their skin colour as white, dark, or black, depending on how dark an individual or an ethnic group is. This seems to be the case across Southeast Asia, at least in as far as I've encountered. Although I've never thought to ask I think most Thais who don't speak English would find the idea being described as "yellow" very strange.

A yellow man walks into a bar. The asian bartender, surprised, tells the yellow man to get checked out for jaundice

@dianeridley9804

3 жыл бұрын

If you've actually seen a jaundiced person, well..

@rowynnecrowley1689

3 жыл бұрын

Well played!

@HaventheDemoness-vy9lx

3 жыл бұрын

Haha!

@DarwinskiYT

3 жыл бұрын

Lego people

@pine1780

3 жыл бұрын

IF he's always walking that bar he might get yellow eyes from his liver lol.

Yellow people just reminds me of Lego and the Simpsons

@abraxamovic

3 жыл бұрын

Also smurfs with liver failure

@deplatformedcrowprinceluna6339

3 жыл бұрын

I think Pat (Name Explain) would be interested if you say lego

@peregrination3643

3 жыл бұрын

I knew that before I knew the Asian use, so when I heard it in an Asian context, I was very confused. I thought cartoons were yellow because pale skin colors were hard to find or didn't work in crayon or marker.

@berniethekiwidragon4382

3 жыл бұрын

Funnily enough, East Asian characters are depicted with fairer skin tones than the bright yellow for Caucasians on the Simpsons.

@checkpointz_56

3 жыл бұрын

And roblox noobs

I’ve never understood this stereotype tbh It’s like, I don’t know what Asians you’re looking at, but most Chinese people are whiter than I am

@alexricky87

3 жыл бұрын

I think it's due to many Asian people are of different colors some are as dark as Barack Obama we just have this lighter version in our heads due to popular media. If you look at pictures of the Uyghurs (Chinese Muslims) they are darker as well as people in Thailand

@scorchedamber

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah... Chinese, etc are white to me. i don't call westerners white. I call em pink xD

@tiagoprado7001

3 жыл бұрын

@@scorchedamber nah, we're only pink if you leave us out in the sun for too long. In our natural environment of posh indoor shopping centres we're actually closer to beige.

@ratlinggull2223

3 жыл бұрын

Most Chinese people I've seen are darker though

@scorchedamber

3 жыл бұрын

@@ratlinggull2223 we only get brownish if left under the sun :) i haven't been under the sun for years xD

I'm Japanese American. While in principle I would have thought of "Yellow" as neutral and not offensive, it has taken on an offensive quality. The reason is that the word is almost never used in neutral contexts (like filling out a census form) but rather by people trying to either offend or else emphasize difference in order to exclude, like the use of "yellow peril".

@lemurking1550

3 жыл бұрын

@@sewpungyow5154 you definately are

@lemurking1550

2 жыл бұрын

@@sewpungyow5154 they could be annoyed because they're being called a nazi hut not because they are called white

@moldveien1515

2 жыл бұрын

My chinese teacher had no issue with the term and used it herself, but that might be as I am not american and alot of terms seen as racist in the states are though about alot diffrently here, especially with people of her generation, take those around my dad's age don't really think of the N word as a slur, just an ethnic term for people of sub-saharan descent, but attitudes have changed so my dad would never say it in public, but I have never seen him use that word as a slur, words are never inherently bad, not until the common consensus is that they are bad. When my dad grew up the only black guy in town was adopted, and also gave himself the nickname "neger Knut" literallt N-word Knut, so its not that odd to think my dad never associated the word neger with anything negative before he got alot older. Especially as American media became a bigger part of norwegian life.

@hungvu262

2 жыл бұрын

My mom and I have yellowish skin, most visible around the hands and feet. Maybe it's a genetic thing?

@eduardosotelo4663

Жыл бұрын

Japanese American? You can't. The Japanese government doesn't accept.

I'm a Cantonese Hongkonger. I don't find "yellow" offensive but I only ever use it on myself and others in a joking manner.

@caiocaguiar9310

3 жыл бұрын

That just sound like n-word with extra steps.

@tinypenguinhk

3 жыл бұрын

I believe that the yellow race is considered the “default” in Hong Kong, so there’s no need to specify that in daily life? 利申：香港華人

@nikolajankovic96

3 жыл бұрын

As someone from Serbia, I only use "white" on myself in joking manner too

@levophetamine

3 жыл бұрын

im also an asian, i dont mind being called yellow, in fact hell yeah i'd be a minion

@joey6460

3 жыл бұрын

Im also a HongKonger, we usually refer "yellow people" (黃種人) to east Asians. And when we are referring the color of our skin, we call it "肉色" literally means "meat clouor/ skin colour".

Finaly someone mentioned that black and white people are not actually like that, as a kid i was always wondering why they call brown people black and why are white people not really white

@mitonaarea5856

3 жыл бұрын

I am from Portugal and here people are very dark compared to other Europeans like british, Dutch or Germans.

@parmaxolotl

3 жыл бұрын

Me as a kid: "why are they called black and white why now brown and sand colored?"

@eirikurnafnendringur3327

3 жыл бұрын

And Indians aren't red. It's just a silly habit.

@user-tk2lf1dv3s

3 жыл бұрын

Because calling Europeans pinkies would be to funny

@stipe3124

3 жыл бұрын

They did just that in Star Trek where Andorian guy named Shran called Humans "Pinkskins"

Fun fact: when Atlanta, GA rebranded their public transit system several years back they had four light rail lines: Blue and Green running East and West, and Red and Yellow running North and South. However, in what was a massive oversight, the Yellow line terminated in the town of Droraville, which had sizable Vietnamese and Koren populations, so they had to scramble and spend a bunch of money to rename it as the Gold line.

@vaclav_fejt

2 жыл бұрын

Father of an acquaintance of mine (native Czech) has his shop right next to a Vietnamese shop. One day, the Vietnamese vendor painted parking lines in their back yard using yellow paint. My acquaintance's father saw that and said "Great idea! I'm gonna paint those on my back yard too-" and stopped himself before specifying the colour which he would use, which was of course the most used colour for applications like this, i.e. white.

@siyacer

2 жыл бұрын

Strange what culture makes us do

@NimeshGmusic

2 жыл бұрын

As a Asian guy, When I was young I was thinking am I a White guy or Asian guy😆

@dickiewongtk

2 жыл бұрын

Not necessary

@thndr_5468

Жыл бұрын

That's silly

Interesting. Always thought it was directly linked to the Yellow River. Such as if someone called the Chinese "The people of the Yellow River" and it was shortened into simply "The Yellow People".

@matildas3177

3 жыл бұрын

that would've made sense

@rnglillian8081

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking it could've been linked to the flag of the Qing empire

@nos8141

3 жыл бұрын

@@rnglillian8081 Or because Emperor wore gold-Yellow as color of royalty, you see alot in Ming Dynasty

@vaclav_fejt

2 жыл бұрын

I thought that it came from Indochina, where the people have just a tad darker skin. Combine that with European racism and Bob's your uncle.

@vonbass1300

2 жыл бұрын

Probably closer to the truth. But we live in a "everything is racial" society right at the moment, so people are going to read their own prejudices back into history.

"if I do upset any of you, then that's completely fine" What a way to word that.

@hallooos7585

3 жыл бұрын

You just offended me!!!!

@nos8141

3 жыл бұрын

@@hallooos7585 Offensive voice!!! 0 v 0

Europeans/West Whites: Be Christian chinese! Chinese: NO! Ok, so to be offensive we gonna call you "Yellow" Chinese remembering the importance of yellow "Awww its so sweet of you, thx xoxo"

@arandomperson5434

2 жыл бұрын

*laughs in 55 Days at Peking*

Name Explain topic idea: History of racial slurs I have no idea how it could be done without giving both KZread and Twitter an aneurysm, but I think it would be legitimately interesting to learn about

@captainobscurity491

3 жыл бұрын

Do it

@Nugcon

3 жыл бұрын

We gonna be walking on a minefield here

@indecisive.dice.roll.325

3 жыл бұрын

honestly I've always been interested in the history and etymology of slurs. What makes *this* particular group of letters so offensive? I'll never know

@dummerikan

3 жыл бұрын

So what if KZread has an aneurysm? They already have him shadowbanned, so...

@forickgrimaldus8301

3 жыл бұрын

@@indecisive.dice.roll.325 a very weird one is F*g for gay people as it just ment originally as a bunch of sticks called a fascis which ironically ment Power during the Roman Empire and even more ironically where Fa sim comes from. The closest we get is a slur for Old Women during the 19th century where it latter became a slur for gay people.

In my mind calling asians yellow is like calling a native american red

@keriezy

3 жыл бұрын

Very much the same! I had a history teacher (white dude) who said he wasn't white he was pink and henceforth would refer to white people as pink Bobs.

@nevreiha

3 жыл бұрын

is that a thing people do? I had vaguely heard about it through Peter pan but other than that nothing much, It sounds like something offensive so I haven't used it but I was never quite sure what it referred to.

@mirzaahmed6589

3 жыл бұрын

Or calling them Indians. They are neither red nor Indian.

@JoJo-oc8zf

3 жыл бұрын

@@nevreiha Well there's an NFL team called the Redskins who were just forced to change their name last year and the Cleveland Indians used to have chief wahoo as their logo and he was a very racist depiction of a native american with bright red skin.

@nevreiha

3 жыл бұрын

@@JoJo-oc8zf yeah, being in britain I have been relatively distanced from racism towards native americans

I have a friend who is Korean, but grew up in Texas. He calls himself a Twinkie-yellow on the outside, white on the inside. He’d rather own it and not take offense. The offensiveness has much to do with if the term is being in a derogatory manner or not.

@fermintenava5911

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe he still shouldn't call himself a twinkie - in homosexual circles, twink is the name for a boyish-looking short gay man. ^^

@jasonbailey9139

3 жыл бұрын

@@fermintenava5911 I assure you, he only mentions it to friends. It isn’t in his online profile. ;) had no clue about that usage, though. Thanks for sharing.

@johnjohn-6256

3 жыл бұрын

Banana applies too, yellow on the outside white on the inside. This is somehow used by Asian people who sneer at American Born Chinese/Asians

@xxmountaindewxx7893

3 жыл бұрын

@@fermintenava5911 This

@justinc.5591

3 жыл бұрын

This reminds me of “Oreo” which is basically the black version of the term:

As a Japanese living in Japan with typical skin tone I have always found the term “yellow” weird. On KZread I can see many examples of people that are called white and most of them don’t have skin tones any lighter than mine. Of course some are lighter than others, and there are as many darker ones. Perhaps they tend to be a bit reddish, which makes me relatively yellowish? I don’t know... Calling me yellow doesn’t necessarily offend me (intention matters more than the word itself), but it doesn’t sound like it includes me. Incidentally these racial terms derived from color names are borrowed into Japanese. They don’t act as adjectives but as nouns. So “I’m white” becomes “I’m a white‐person (白人)”, and “I’m black” is “I’m a black‐person (黒人).” Adjectives just mean how tan. “Yellow‐person” (黄人) can be found in some dictionaries but I seldom encounter it used. Sometimes “Yellow‐color human‐type” (黄色人種) can be seen in literature which sounds very technical. Maybe “Mongoloids” (モンゴロイド) is more popular. Anyway, grouping people from parts of Asia is not too often needed in everyday conversation. By the way, the sound volume is a bit low, isn’t it?

@joshgreen2164

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! intention is what matters. Just waiting on the world to catch up.

@willywonka3050

3 жыл бұрын

I just realized that my natural/untanned skin color is lighter than many white people. Maybe it’s because we tan easier than lighter skinned whites?

@debbieanne7962

3 жыл бұрын

I'm Australian and have visited Japan. I would have to say that the Japanese have the whitest skin in the world

@DonnaChamberson

3 жыл бұрын

@@debbieanne7962 Japanese and Irish seem to have the most white skin I’ve ever seen. Irish have blue-ish undertones even.

@ancalyme

3 жыл бұрын

@@shambhaviarun2261 European culture? African? You do know that these contintents encompass hundreds of cultures... don't use european and african as a placeholder for white and black.

KZread demonetisation is so stupid 90% of the time

I thought you approached the topic with a very clear-headed and insightful response. I felt it was a respectful exploration, and I hope comments/youtube are kind to you.

@starcorpvncj

3 жыл бұрын

Dude spent long a time apologising for nothing because we live in a woke world where everyone is a victim.

@santoriomaker69

3 жыл бұрын

@@starcorpvncj nah, it's okay to apologize. He has a choice not to, but he did it because he is aware of the people who ARE sensitive and find racial slurs (or any words that may hurt them) actually offensive. While I don't like the current white knighting and virtue signaling that a lot of people are doing, it doesn't mean that sensitive people doesn't exist anymore or that ALL sensitive people are like that.

@starcorpvncj

3 жыл бұрын

@@santoriomaker69 Maybe they are all like this. They need to toughen up.

I have a lot of respect for you. It's extremely hard to talk about things like this. KZread is terrified of bad press. I would be shocked if they monetized this video.

@carllivingston169

3 жыл бұрын

I get why KZread would want to de-monetize videos covering topics similar to this, however feel like they miss the point of the educational purpose of it, As is said, education is fatal to discrimination

@hannahk1306

3 жыл бұрын

They've recently been age restricting a lot of educational videos as well, but making it difficult to verify your age without giving them loads of personal information.

@jiraffe9600

3 жыл бұрын

It’s nice that it’s been monetized then.

Wat- I searched google a while back and it legit said “Chinese people were white until a white man called them yellow” *bruh*

As a japanese-brazilian I have heard the term, but never took it as a negative thing, mostly neutral...

@yopassthefuckinsalt922

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, it is literally the term we use in our census to categorize East Asian people

@canaldbmiguel1429

3 жыл бұрын

Brasillll

@ericktellez7632

2 жыл бұрын

I would move to Japan if I was you tbh

@xaropevic7918

2 жыл бұрын

That is my case as well, and even though I already readed a "countryside" slang of calling scammers as "yellow", because there weren't any asian among them, I would guess that it is just a coincidence

Literally every individual has a unique shade of skin color.

@bruhz_089

3 жыл бұрын

No

@WTFCDFoxy

3 жыл бұрын

@@bruhz_089 yes. Nothing in the universe is 100% identical.

@Apple-mg6jr

2 жыл бұрын

@@WTFCDFoxy ✨atoms✨

@WTFCDFoxy

2 жыл бұрын

@@Apple-mg6jr even atoms are different

@Apple-mg6jr

2 жыл бұрын

@@WTFCDFoxy I just searched it up and all atoms of the same element are Identical. Please do your research.

I’m asian but culturally very white/american as I’m adopted. I have never, ever been called Yellow. The only time I ever heard that term is in discussing archaics such as Dante’s Inferno. The closest thing I’ve ever been called was a Banana, which is a joke on how I’m ‘yellow on the outside, white inside’. If someone were to call me Yellow I really don’t know what I’d do. It’s so odd I don’t think I’d be offended.

@BATMANSopinions

3 жыл бұрын

yellow people not YELLOW they have the ton of it . Ex I'm black but I'm light skin black that's why I'm called black because i have the ton .

@razerpenguin1887

3 жыл бұрын

@@BATMANSopinions asians don't have the tone of yellow?

@BATMANSopinions

3 жыл бұрын

@@razerpenguin1887 They do 🙂

@PHlophe

2 жыл бұрын

Carolyn, its safe to say that the only time yellow is used its meant in a derogatory manner. I can see that in the comments some people don't care but there are enough folk for which its problematic. so we go with a regional depiction if we really oughta describe.

This is one of the most interesting name explains I've seen to date, as it has such relevance for our daily lives. Thanks for sharing!

I am from Brazil, here we use the term "yellow", the name of the races here are: white, black, yellow, red and brown. We don't always use "asian", because like, if a asian couple moves to there, and they have a child here, this child has the same race as their parents, but they are not asian, they didn't born in Asia, so they are yellow. And most of the yellow people here, didn't born on Asia, so that's why we don't always use the term "Asian", because not every yellow person here is Asian.

@whatever5401

Ай бұрын

"Yellow" and "Mongoloid" are considered okay terms to describe east/southeast Asians here in Vietnam. A lot of people describe themselves as yellow and we even have a phrase that basically means "red blood yellow skin" that we proudly use

We, brown people, are brown none the less

@Shrapnel82

2 жыл бұрын

What makes that interesting/tricky/whatever, is Brown people can refer to Hispanics (who are not all Brown), or people of South Asian decent. I've heard people talk about Brown people as though it's a monoculture, like White is a mono-culture, though White could refer to Irish or Dutch, two widely different cultures (that's only referring to the traditional ethnic groups there... people of any race could immigrate, and have as much right to claim said culture and citizenship as Whites).

@mfra959

2 жыл бұрын

You yellow i think

@user-iq7hw2qf6e

Жыл бұрын

No South Asians,arabs and latins are brown U people are yellow

@user-iq7hw2qf6e

Жыл бұрын

@@Shrapnel82 yh here in the uk "brown" oftern refers to a south asians, arabs and latins

@Shrapnel82

Жыл бұрын

@@user-iq7hw2qf6e Arabs have become so mixed, some are pretty much White, and same with Latin America. I've met White Mexicans who looked pretty much Irish.

Sometimes I fear it is totally impossible to find any information about a topic because it's too polarizing, and then this comes out, proving me wrong. Thank you so much for that.

I think there is a big difference between claiming name for yourself and having others use it in a derogatory manner.

@zeroisnine

3 жыл бұрын

Row Boat!

Irish/French. I guess I'm green on both sides: Mom's a Frog, Dad's Emerald Green. If I had my druthers momma, I'd druther be yellow, black or brown.

@MM-pv5tp

3 ай бұрын

🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

I'm han chinese but have lived in Ohio for 19 years of my life. I rarely ever use "yellow" to describe myself preferring saying "asian" or specifically "chinese" when describing my ethnicity/race. I don't find the term offensive but I can see how, used in a demeaning context, it would become offensive.

@emilygilbeyful

3 жыл бұрын

It's strange how different places have different ways of saying things as In the UK Asian generally is used to mean Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi or Sri lankan. I know that in some parts of the world East Asians are referred to as Oriental, or Eastern. In some places it's fine such as here in the UK but in some places it's not acceptable. I don't think most younger people would ever say yellow nowadays here in the UK.

@MerkhVision

3 жыл бұрын

@@emilygilbeyful Good point! Funny how it’s so different that in the US, the term “Asian” commonly refers to East Asians and explicitly excludes the South Asians that the British use of the term describes.

Finally some of my random curious thoughts are answered by random videos. Thank you.

Great research as always!

Nice video. What about a video explaining why american indians were called red? Love your content!

@MrJoebrooklyn1969

3 жыл бұрын

That makes more sense than calling Asians yellow and Italians olive.

@whats20buks57

3 жыл бұрын

I read that the Native Americans painted their bodies Red doing tribal raids.

@MrJoebrooklyn1969

3 жыл бұрын

@Willie Dynamite LOL!!!

@canaldbmiguel1429

3 жыл бұрын

But they r red

@canaldbmiguel1429

3 жыл бұрын

@@whats20buks57 they actually paint, and not painted

I'm British Chinese and I honestly don't care if I'm called yellow. I certainly feel it is not a formal term, but in the end I just see it as an archaic way to identify East Asian people. Heck even me and my friends sometimes joke around with the word when we imitate talking to each other in an old fashioned way.

@PHlophe

2 жыл бұрын

when i was a kid i remember hearing the words " oriental family" to describe asian of chinese extraction ( for example), it was phased out and we adjusted . Personally I also remember being called half-caste. these days I am biracial. i hadn't heard the term until my son introduced it to me.

@whenpigsfly4136

2 жыл бұрын

@@PHlophe I'm mixed and sometimes I look pale another time I'm yellow? Gold? Idk Even my little sister makes jokes about it. Even a classmate of mine pointed it out to me saying that Im yellow. Was I angry? Yes but I got over it cuz it's true 🤷

I’m south East Asian, but many (not all) Americans can’t tell the difference, so I have been called yellow before, and I always wondered how? If any color, I’m more like a tan or lighter brown.

@BATMANSopinions

3 жыл бұрын

you have that yellowish skin ton that's why just like the me I'm light skin black but I'm identified as black

@PHlophe

2 жыл бұрын

@@BATMANSopinions i think for most black people it doesn't match there are way too many range but its understood that its the african features that are singled out . a lot of people in the comments are unwilling to adjust to that reality. its pretty clear to me that even japanese are not as too light as they think they are. having lived in 3 asian nations, they bleached from birth so there is rarely a moment where the true skin color is known by people.

@reymalone5666

2 жыл бұрын

@@BATMANSopinions you keep saying to asian people “you have yellowish skin tone” like you’ve seen them personally? Lol the word “yellow” is just a label used by white people to identify asians. Asians skin tone varies they can go from white skin tones like the chinese/koreans/japanese to brown or darkbrown like the people from indonesia, philippines, guam. The term “yellow” was just used to identify asian as a whole

Even John Lennon used to call his wife Yoko "Yellow" in the song Happy Xmas (war is over)

I remember our class for D3 Design and the teacher saying that human skin is probably the hardest to do as it's got so many colours, and undertones, its shiny in some places and mat in others. Then you have changes based of how much of that part of the skin in exposed to sun... Basicly so many things to factor in its probably easier to do a full composite of the person rather than doing a patch of skin.

As someone is culturally "white" I prefer to think of myself as "pink" I feel it's more accurate to my actual skintone.

@GrigRP

3 жыл бұрын

Pink people should be the term used.

@88marome

3 жыл бұрын

I call myself beige.

@debbieanne7962

3 жыл бұрын

And I notice a lot of white people from cold climates, especially where it snows are red skinned

@zchettaz

3 жыл бұрын

@@debbieanne7962 The term "redskin" is what was used to describe native Americans. It recently got cancelled though which resulted in the company 'allens' to rename its 'redskin' lollies to 'red ripper'. I had never known anyone to associate the two of these, so I'm going to keep calling the lollies a "redskin".

@jboogie4304

3 жыл бұрын

@@zchettaz it's a racial slur, if your not indigenous, you shouldn't be saying it

I'ma go on a whim and say that most East Asians that refer to themselves as Yellow are Chinese, because of the connotations of Yellow River and Yellow Emperor Heck, there's even a really popular "Yellow Empowerment Song" by pop singer Nicolas Tse kzread.info/dash/bejne/n4ppq7OblJPVYLg.html

@sniperdubey

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the entire reason people refer to Asians as yellow is literally because the Chinese have always called themselves yellow - and most westerners thought of Chinese when they thought of Asians. Yellow is the most beautiful and prestigious colour in China - so it makes sense that they'd proudly associate their skin colour with it. Most other Asians are not particularly fond of being associated with China and so it makes sense why they would dislike being referred to as yellow.

@MerkhVision

3 жыл бұрын

Did u make this comment before watching the video? Because he mentions both the Yellow River and the Yellow Emperor in the video lol.

@user-vi5ox7ob2w

2 жыл бұрын

@@sniperdubey because the gold is yellow,that is why yellow is prestigious colour in china.but we also know the yellow skin mean you are sick,chinese woman favourite skin color is white,for thousand years before.

@Shrapnel82

2 жыл бұрын

From my experience, Han Chinese (I specify since not all Chinese are the same race/ethnicity) often use the term. Though, I haven't yet asked the reason for it. I think someone did mention the Emperor once, though.

@user-vi5ox7ob2w

2 жыл бұрын

@@Shrapnel82 no,han chinese just tell themself HAN REN (汉人),from the second united dynasty han(汉).before that,they also call themself add with their country name like 赵人、宋人、秦人、楚人、晋人.after the han dynasty down,they also call their country name like 蜀人、吴人、宋人、唐人 too.

Never really wanted to know where the term came from, but glad I came across this, was pretty informative, it stretches further back in history way more than I had thought. Only time I use the word yellow is when describing somebody who's a coward, can't seem to find anything definitive about how that term came about, but it also seems to have a long history of use in that particular context.

0:15 clearly you've never seen an Irishman in the sun lmao

This story has some similarities with the word “Mulato” used to describe people of mixed race in the Caribbean.

its always funny every time i hear this term, because as an Indonesian (South East Asian), our skin tone tends to be browner than the East Asian one, and i always thought that East Asian skin as "white", not yellow. lol

I am Chinese, there is a song in our songs, (yellow race),（黄种人） which is particularly hot, so the Chinese claim to be yellow races, so this word is not discriminatory, but a neutral word. Although our skin was very white when we were born, it was easier to dry.

@user-np4wm5bj3f

Жыл бұрын

We call Europe as a white race, Africa is a black person, and the Chinese are yellow. This is a neutral word。

@user-iq7hw2qf6e

Жыл бұрын

@@user-np4wm5bj3f Africa has arab people aswell

Personally, of someone of east Asian ancestry, I would probably not be called yellow since I don't really pass as Asian. I'd only tolerate being called yellow if I'm with some friends and we're comfortable with race. Context is so important when it comes to controversial subjects like this

@oldsaggyorcsacs1630

Ай бұрын

Are you hapa too

Interesting. When I was at primary school in China, there was a geography lesson when we learnt about different people of the world. There was yellow, which was the colour applied to most of east Asia, and dotted across South America. Xinjiang was dashed between yellow and white. White was applied to Europe, most of the Americas, the Middle East and India. Black was sub-Saharan Africa although dotted across North America too. A bit of Australia and south east Asia and the pacific was brown, although was the smallest colour of all. Then there were pictures of these different people, their typical physique proportions. I found it fascinating. Then I moved to the UK and it was a surprise to me that the Indians and Arabs or even Hispanics were not considered White. When I mentioned “yellow”, none of my school friends had ever heard of it

We Chinese people call ourselves "children of the Flame and Yellow emperors" 炎黄子孙 so we use the term "yellow race" very often. And there is a famous song 龙的传人 "heirs of the dragon", in which says "Black eyes, black hair and yellow skin - we are forever the heirs of the dragon 黑眼睛黑头发黄皮肤，永永远远是龙的传人" And another song called 黄种人 "the yellow race" speaks more straight: "The yellow man comes to earth, Raise a new chest; Yellow man walking on the road, The world knows that I am different 黄种人 来到地上 挺起新的胸膛 黄种人 走在路上 天下知我不一样" So Chinese people really love the term "yellow". But we don't want to be called yellow by white guys tho

@gunsroses1293

10 ай бұрын

别扯淡了。dragon不是什么好词汇，是西方的一种怪兽。我们中国的龙要用这个单词“loong”

@gunsroses1293

10 ай бұрын

还有，炎黄子孙那个黄是黄帝，和黄色没有任何关系，那个黄是一个音译，上古汉语留下来的

@cochan7347

10 ай бұрын

@@gunsroses1293 黄是什么的音译？还上古汉语，你给个拟音我也算你懂了

@cochan7347

10 ай бұрын

@@gunsroses1293 dragon在中国也是怪兽啊，先秦有御龙的有屠龙的吃龙肝的，上古典籍里的龙可没什么神圣性。龙和皇家挂钩是刘邦说他妈在河边被龙强奸了，至于说龙和汉人挂钩则要到民国时期

@jimwaychang6061

3 ай бұрын

This song appears in late 20th...

I have been wondering about this for some time. It surprises me, however, that Lineaus (or Linné, as his real name was) coined the term. While he put various forms of life into different categories, I have not yet read anything about him looking down on people from different parts of the world.

@Altrantis

3 жыл бұрын

I don't think he looked down on people, he was just trying to categorize.

@torbjornlekberg7756

3 жыл бұрын

@@Altrantis I agree that this makes more sense.

Being a Chinese myself, I really thought that the reason for this is only of 11:45 , didn't expect it to have relation to European people naming stuff

The reason yellow became offensive is due to slurs like "The Yellow Peril" as well as the old English slang like yellow-belly and "Are you yellow" both suggested that yellow equals coward, that goes a long way to explaining why yellow is seen as such a negative colour when applied to people.

The Census Bureau of Brazil (IBGE) still officially refers to Asians as "amerelos" (yellow). Yellows, mainly of Japanese descent, make up around 2% of the Brazilian population.

Patrick I love how you care that you may be offending someone. I personally feel your soothing voice could never offend people

This reminds me of the time I had a geographic lesson and our old teacher told us to paint Africa black, America red and Asia yellow. He was mostly a good guy, but also quite old. It also gives me a story to tell, so that's good

when i was a kid i thought asain were brought here by aliens cause there eyes looked different i was dumb as a kid lol

@IAmGlutton4Life

3 жыл бұрын

Hell when I was a little kid I thought the brown people are made from chocolate and white people vanilla ice cream

@jumjum5744

3 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

As a person of East Asian descent, generally I'm fine with referring to myself or my people "yellow" in my mother tongue, but I'd never use that term in English nor would I like to be called that in English. Just as I generally don't really agree with calling peoples by colors in general.

Excuse me Mr. Name Explained, but references to "yellow" Asians can be found in Dante Aligari's Divine Comedy. The same text does, however, describe Europeans as "red" due to their otherwise pale complexions.

Well done explaining this topic! Could you please also make a video on why Asians also used to be called Oriental? Thanks.

From China here. its funny because 'yellow' in Mandarin is *technically* considered a racial category including not only the East Asians but also the indigenous peoples of the Americas and such - forgot how that worked supposedly but thats what they taught me in geography. For me, it's not extremely offensive although I wouldn't really use it either and would rather that people used other terms because: 1. It makes no sense 2. It actually sounds a bit nationalistic and chauvinistic to me (dunno why) 3. It just sounds a bit more malicious in English cuz context, i guess 4. Being 'yellow' doesn't really mean anything to me - it says very little about a person's cultural background and ethnicity and it's just... weird. Like ok, I'm yellow, so what? If I wanted to say that I'm East Asian, then I'll say I'm East Asian. If I wanted to say I'm Chinese, then I'll say I'm Chinese. 'Yellow' sounds just vague enough to foster some random racial conspiracy theories. For me it's just a word that doesn't really have any sort of meaningful or especially positive connotations to it, and I just think that it's generally not so good a label. edit: grammar

@npai6612

Жыл бұрын

Isn't Chinese ppl call themselves "people with yellow skin and black hair"?

@medeiapsyche

4 ай бұрын

No. ​@@npai6612

@Ryanflees

23 күн бұрын

@@npai6612 "yellow skin" is just an idea of some European scholar I forgot which one, who categorizes east Asian as yellow people, and this idea is not accepted in the west. but somehow it get into China and got accepted. But it's still being questioned by a lot people as I'm Chinese and I know a lot "white" people are not even as white as me.😅

I'm not Chinese or East Asian, but I have lived in China for over a decade and am fluent in Mandarin... in China "yellow", while not used very often, doesn't really have any negative connotation when it is used, though then again I feel that has more to do with how race is defined in countries that are highly homogenous compared to countries which are much more diverse! Speaking of colours to describe skin tone, in China (and I imagine other nearby countries) "white" and "black" are used just as often to describe people's appearance much more than any other colours... though in that case it's not about race (I imagine English translations like "fair" and "tanned" would be more appropriate than literal translations).

As one who was born and lived out their childhood in New Mexico I am often thrown by those who make the distinction between "white" and "hispanic". My friends of Spanish, Italian and other non-northwestern European ancestry all appeared to be white to me. Many of those referred to as "Anglo" could often be more German, Norse, French or Polish rather than someone of British ancestry.

I was born and raised in Asia, and I've definitely been called yellow before. I don't have any strong feeling towards, it. I do use it to refer to myself or my other asian friends in a jovial manners when we're talking to each others.

I bet the comment sections are a caring and lovely place

8:21 "Asiaticus" would never be pronounced "Asia-tyke-us", but "Azee-attic-us".

@janojupiter2364

3 жыл бұрын

the whole intonation is unbearable, too

Can you increase the volume for your videos? Even on full, it's hard to listen to you without external speakers. Thanks!

@botch3z

3 жыл бұрын

I don't have this problem.

This made me think of some of the customers I work with who are of Egyptian nationality, and they have a very beautiful, golden tan tone to their skin. They have a great pride of how they look too, and in this past couple years of talk about race and such, I asked how they identify. They just said, “We are Egyptian!” and we all chuckled.

East Asian people themselves use the term「“the Yellow Race” = 黃種人」all the time. Honestly I think it’s quite fitting, since many people do have a faint yellowish tint to their skin

I have East Asian and South East Asian heritage and I never understood the term. I first heard it in a movie when I was a kid and it just confused me. East Asian people aren't yellow. They're either brown-skinned and some can have skin colour as pale to europeans.

@quidam_surprise

3 жыл бұрын

Not only that, but, on the other hand, it's not rare to see people with a sallow/wheatish complexion up in here, which kinda renders the whole thing null and void, you know like... EVERY SINGLE PART of that simpleton classification 😑

@BATMANSopinions

3 жыл бұрын

you are called yellow is because you guys have the yellowish skin ton that's why Ex I'm light skin black and I'm identified as black 👊🏽

I thought it had something to do with skin undertones Like how people have warm, olive or cool undertones that makes your skin more pink-ish or (you guessed it) yellow-ish

As an ethnically Vietnamese person, I never found the term 'yellow' offensive, especially when referring to myself or my mom, who also identifies as such. In Vietnamese, the word 'da vàng' means 'yellow-skinned' ('da' (pronounced 'ya') = 'skin'; 'vàng' = 'yellow' or 'gold/golden'), which some Vietnamese use to describe themselves and some other East Asian or Southeast Asian people, especially because Vietnam had been colonized and influenced by China during ancient times. It wasn't until 8th grade when I found out that the term 'yellow' used to describe Asian people could be offensive, which surprised me as I considered myself yellow, even if the pigmentation of my skin doesn't look exactly like a banana nor lemon.

@hungtheheroluu

11 ай бұрын

The concept of referring to people by the color of their skin can be a touchy subject, and not only offensive, but also ludicrous to some. I know that white people aren't actually as white as snow or clouds, but why call black people 'black' when their skin looks brownish? In the end, we should all try to embrace diversity by being happy with how we identify ourselves and clarifying how we would prefer to be identified as.

I dont remember where I've heard this but apparently East Asians actually do have slightly more yellow skin than Europeans. However it's only really noticeable when they tan. Europeans are orange-bronze and Asians are orange-gold

Well, I felt very comfortable using all the emojis with yellow faces so I guess it is not a problem for me...

@BATMANSopinions

3 жыл бұрын

😂

That thumbnail is definitely provocative & kinda funny.🤣

You should have done red as well. I think that it’s similarly offensive, maybe more so though. Idk, I’ll never forget that song from the animated Peter Pan and thinking when I was a little girl over 30 years ago that it must be offensive to native Americans.

My mom is half Chinese and Half Korean maybe I'll ask her what she thinks of the term!

@ozwasp

2 жыл бұрын

Most people would just call you Asian

@yeezet4592

2 жыл бұрын

Ya but that applies to anyone from the continent. Mongoloid is a bit more accurate, though I think it is regarded as offensive now.

Yellow and red, especially here in the states, are particularly egregious terms when used to refer to Asian folk and Native Americans respectively. The recent violent events that targeted Asian Americans... An unjustifiable act born from twisted delusions and paranoia. Unlike what many may think, racism is still thriving in the states, and the country is divided between tackling the issues at hand, or trying to paint it as something that it isn't. And it's an issue that shouldn't be ignored.... We've already seen how heavy the price is

In Ireland we just call pink/white people “geal” (light/clear) and black/brown people “gorm” (blue/green).. Southern Europeans are “gorm” and east Asians are usually “geal”. No one identifies with their skin colour though and whenever you call someone “gorm”/“geal”, people will assume you are talking about their hair colour, like how we call ginger people “ginger”

Funny, Mongolians refer to Westerners as Yellow, in reference to the Blonde hair. Words such as yellow-heads are used to describe Westerners frequently

@quidam_surprise

3 жыл бұрын

Makes sense 🤔

I wonder how this relates to calling someone yellow when they are A) cowardly and B) from a city

@Shrapnel82

2 жыл бұрын

As far as I'm aware, it's completely unrelated. Yellow (or yeller, to make it extra cowboy) was from "yellow bellied", which in turn was from... something. Not sure. I heard some sort of reptile was the origin.

I'm Cambodian, I see calling Khmer people "Yellow" as forcing stereotypical Sinization on us.

one interesting thing I also noticed is that, even to this day, there are some geographical censuses in Latin America that count native americans as "Red"

I never understood this word. When I look at many asians in general, most of them are whiter than me. Not saying that all asians are white because there are many types of asians with different skin tones.

@taylormatthews6086

3 жыл бұрын

Same with all races actually a white African is a thing, a very very rare thing

I'm brazilian of japanese descent. "Yellow" looks very strange and inaccurate for me, considering that the color of my skin is more white than most "whites", but i don't find the term offensive in most contexts

@wa-bu3ke

2 жыл бұрын

Yellow is more accurate. If you're White you'd look like The Joker.

@jhonnyjhonson2664

Жыл бұрын

Black is also inaccurate. Black people aren't black they're brown. They range from light brown to dark brown.

9:54 that moment when the least racist person is the one who classified humans into different species. Edit: fixed timestamp

I've noticed a lot of Asian groups such as Mongolians and Manchurians can have a dark skin tone which may be mistaken as a sallowish color, especially in secondhand accounts. This may be where the original "sallow" idea came from.

3:14 how melodramatic, the video still has ads

I'm Japanese, and my skin is paler than most of European.

My theory was that they were named after The Yellow River, but I would not be suprised if it was reversed. My second theory is that people called colors diffrently in the past, how green and blue was the same for a long time. I can see how some "yellow people" have an orange-y skin tone, but Europeans didn't have a name for orange at the time so they called them yellow.

I don't know if you are aware of this, but in the southern US, during the 18th and 19th centuries, the term "yellow" was used to describe the skin tone of biracial people (i.e. not entirely Black or White). Those with very light skin tones who had some Black ancestry were "high yellow" (or high yaller). Read any historical (or pseudo-historical) novel set in this time period (e.g. Alex Haley's "Roots") and you will come across this. I always thought that the term applied to East Asians for similar reasons.

Here in Brazil, the national census uses the term yellow (amarelo) to refer to Chinese, koreans, Japanese, Mongols, Vietnamese and their descendants. As a white guy I can't say it with so much confirming, but for what I've seen in the internet, the young Asian descendants population are more proud nowadays to call and be called yellow.

@canaldbmiguel1429

3 жыл бұрын

Certíssimo

@RandomGuy-zk3iu

Жыл бұрын

You're not white

To call someone "Yellow" is as outdated as the term "Mongoloid" or "Oriental". Term is so outdated that if someone anyone Yellow, I will just assume that person is over 90 years old and looks like Prince Philip. lmao.

Once went to Scotland and was paler than the red heads. They look pink while i look like raw milk. But i tan to a dark brown in the tropical summer. So, im an Asian POC, literally.

@sprPee

2 жыл бұрын

POC just means non white.

I will give one thing I've noticed: in general, the people more likely to be offended by a racial term are going to be those who are a minority where they live. It's African-Americans who first hated the n-word. It's Asians living in the West who hate Oriental. And so on. And people saying intent matters are correct, but, if someone tells you they are offended by a word, and you keep using it (and not just by accident), then your intent is clearly to offend. People seem to sometimes act like intent is this get-out-of-jail-free card that lets you not care how others feel. Don't be like that, please.

I didn’t know yellow strictly refer to Chinese people. I thought it contains all east Asian people and in Mandarin it’s a pretty normal term now. But I do feel like in modern English this term has an offensive undertone simply because I’ve never heard it used in an unoffensive context lol.

I doesn't use "yellow" as a description, because it doesn't fit. I rather say "Asian". But the term Asians use for Europeans, "Long-noses" isn't better than "Asians". But that doesn't tangent me.

Im white and i used to hear from my friends when i hooked up with an asian that i had yellow fever

I think it depends on how often the term is used. In Singapore, no one uses "yellow" so it's a bit weird/out of place/offensive.

I think context is key for color relating to people in positive or negative ways

Can we just refer to each other by ethnicity, it's far more accurate and nuanced then applying random colours to people.

I am a Chinese girl and I had not found "yellow race" offended until I read some historical books describing races. I heard "yellow race" from a Chinese lecture and since then, I categorized our skin tones to "yellow". However, I also found that more than 50% of Chinese people have a pale skin tone as European, which confused me a lot. Besides, skin tones of Chinese people vary a lot actually, so you cannot use a simple color to describe all Chinese people. So, East Asian is the best word I have heard so far since it is precise and bears no ambiguity. However, I propose that Chinese schools to stop calling us as yellow races since it is not only offensive but also not true. Many Chinese girls are categorizing themselves as yellow people and are pursuing a extremely white skin tone to compete with European skin color (because in Chinese culture, white skin means grace and good). But the fact is that most of European women do not have an extremely pale skin (they are white but not that white mostly). Many Chinese girls do have an average European girls' skin tones but they are still not satisfied with that tone level since they think of that color as "yellow".

@JamesWilliam-yo9el

2 жыл бұрын

Education is so important and schools should improve to be in line with more scientific facts.

This dude, I learned about these english terms in the US, they would call us “brown” and I would get it, they have black people and white people and we have a brown tone, but the one I never got was “yellow” for asians, didnt make sense to me at all.

As a Chinese, I can confirm we do call ourselves yellow. One of the most famous song in China 龙的传人 by leehom Wang has lyrics saying we are yellow skin or something, a lot of songs sing stuff like that. We comfortably call ourself yellow in China. But yellow is used condescendingly in the west when addressing us Asian, so it’s not ok

@Ryanflees

23 күн бұрын

其实也是硬造出来的概念了。古代中国人并不以龙为自己形象的代表。龙只是算天崇拜相关的神兽之一。 黄皮肤也是欧洲哪个学者对东亚人歧视性的分类留下来的，因为中国人没有感受到这个歧视导致被普遍接受了。实际东亚人肤色从白到棕都有，按肤色分类并不科学。