Foreigners and big eyes.

[Damicci]

My girlfriend just said the funniest thing I have heard in a long time.

☆Rieko☆ says:
目が大きかったらすぐにゴミがはいる
Translated:
Your eyes are big so stuff can get in them.

This is from a conversation about my eyes being red and irritated for some reason.

I wondered if many Japanese people have thought this thought at some point or another.
I guess that confirmed it fo rme. She also said many Japanese think that.

 

[marsans]

My girlfriend is Vietnamese and she has commented about how beautiful my big Italian eyes are and tried to open hers more Never had someone talk about it being a bad thing ☝

But she is vietnamese so maybe this dosent apply to your question

 

[Grandpa Frank]

Reminds me of.....

Little Red Riding Hood.......

What big eyes you have grandma!!!!!

All the better to see you with my dear!!!!!!

Uncle Frank

 

[Anohito]

Little Red Riding Hood.......

What big eyes you have grandma!!!!!

All the better to see you with my dear!!!!!!

Uncle Frank

Owoooooooo!
Who's that I see walkin' in these woods?
Why, it's Little Red Riding Hood.
Hey there Little Red Riding Hood,
You sure are looking good.
You're everything a big bad wolf could want.
Listen to me.

The rest of the lyrics are at:
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Nobody in Japan ever told me that I had big eyes (and my eyes are not small), but I never had a girlfriend in Japan (not even one for the night). On the other hand, some of the bar girls I encountered in the Philippines claimed to find hair on a man's chest very attractive.

 

[Mikawa Ossan]

Hmm...it sounded like a joke to me!

 

[Goldiegirl]

My Japanese friends were suprised to find out that I had to wear contacts or glasses, they said with such big eyes they figured I could see better. I don't think it was meant as a joke. They also said that we had a wider range of vision than asians with "tight" eyes. I assume that meant more slanted or squinted. I was also asked what colors looked like to me because my eyes are blue. I suppose when everyone in your family, or most of the country you live in, has the same color eyes and similar features, the questions that are asked are out of genuine curiosity.

 

[Mikawa Ossan]

That's interesting! I've never heard that, but then again, I'm never without my glasses, so it's no mystery that I wear them.

 

[pipokun]

She is just Tennen, so you love her, right?
I like the tennen personality than "always asking me why" personality, though I like the latter in business.

 

[GodEmperorLeto]

I like the tennen personality than "always asking me why" personality, though I like the latter in business.

Okay, what exactly is "tennen"? Are these personality types or something?

 

[Damicci]

Well she was joking about the Eye thing. She even said that many Japanese people believe it too.

It's cute to me. Does tennen mean innocent?

Nvm, てんねん 天然 Spontanious. She is pretty open to willing to try new things.

 

[mika_r]

you should say to your girlfriend: but we have longer eyelashes ;D

lol, jk.

since I've never been in japan I can't truly answer your question ._.

 

[Damicci]

Holy Old Thread Catgirl!

 

[semi~sweet]

people always tell my my big eyes are beautiful and i wouldnt change them for the world ^__^

 

[caster51]

Foreigners and big eyes.

i think it has nothing to do with Foreigners

 

[MadamePapillon]

Sorry if this is an ignorant question but are eyes a big deal in Japan?

I've heard stories about people being critisized for having too thin eyes or being called ugly because of that. And that surgeries to make the eyes bigger are the most sought after plastic surgery in the whole if Asia.

It's not something we ever really think about here, it's just not a big deal, so I was surprised at all the attention that seems to be paid to the size of eyes in Japan. Especially since a lot of the old Japanese paintings and dolls have the women with very thin, slanted eyes, so it seems that once thin eyes were thought to be beautiful.

 

[magevampjoe]

Hmmmm, most animes that you watch (of the same type of drawing as love hina and chobits) features all the girls with HUGE eyes. It seems that it makes it all the easier to draw crying effects or the shimmering love effect...
Whilst most male characters seem to have slightly smaller eyes.

Anyways, its not too important. If your girlfriend says something like that again, just say 'I love you too', or 'but you love me anyway, right?'.

 

[kameron]

When one of my Korean students told me that she wanted plastic surgery to make her eyes look bigger, I almost cried >< I can see absolutely nothing wrong with asian people's eyes, I think they're beautiful if anything, but I certainly wouldn't want to go under the knife to make myself look any different. Weird thing is her eyes were actually a lot larger than the average asian's anyway.

Seems plastic surgery is getting more and more popular over there, noticably eye-lid manipulation and jaw reconstruction.

 

[Arlet]

It's so sad that people aren't always happy with the way they look.

They need to know that they're beautifull.
If somebody could just, say that to them.
Maybe they'd feel better and dont do the surgery.

Coz, the most beautifull thing of a human, those are the eyes for me.

 

[Damicci]

i think it has nothing to do with Foreigners

Would non-asians and big eyes suit your fancy?☝

 

[semi~sweet]

Arlet yeah it is really sad that people can't be happy with the features they are born with...oh well.

 

[Arlet]

I mean, you can at least be happy that you're healty.
If you're healty then...

 

[Tollen]

my 2 pence...

I mean, you can at least be happy that you're healty.
If you're healty then...

hehe so whaddya do if your ugly & ill? thats gotta be a downer

meh, people are always going to be unhappy with their looks, both men and women. i think its daft and im sure most people do but there's always some that dont and i think that if a simple surgery can make them happy again then i cant blame them for doing it. hehe probably cheaper than years and years of psychiatry to try and make you like the face you have beforehand

 

[semi~sweet]

hehe so whaddya do if your ugly & ill? thats gotta be a downer
meh, people are always going to be unhappy with their looks, both men and women. i think its daft and im sure most people do but there's always some that dont and i think that if a simple surgery can make them happy again then i cant blame them for doing it. hehe probably cheaper than years and years of psychiatry to try and make you like the face you have beforehand

That's just stupid people need to stop being so freaken selfish and get over there looks...there are more important things besides how you look

 

[caster51]

Would non-asians and big eyes suit your fancy?

窶喇ﾂ like a bigger nose.....

 

[pipokun]

That's just stupid people need to stop being so freaken selfish and get over there looks...there are more important things besides how you look

Right. I want to study the debate skill of Hilary Clinton, but no facelift.