Research: Beauty is Eurasian

“Eurasian features have been associated with beauty since Somerset Maugham extolled the exotic appearance of a woman of mixed race more than 80 years ago in his short story, The Pool.  Now Australian psychologists have shown there is a scientific basis for this stereotype.  In the first study of its kind, Caucasians and Asians rated average Eurasian faces as more attractive than average faces of either race. They also judged Eurasian faces to be healthier, giving credence to theory that beauty is not solely determined by culture and the media, but has biological origins.  The study’s leader, Professor Gillian Rhodes, of the University of Western Australia, said the results suggested “our preferences are shaped by evolution” ...

Dominique Longheon, the general manager of Chic Model Management in Sydney, said blonde models no longer dominated the Asian model market, particularly in Hong Kong and Singapore. “Once, every ad had your typical Swedish girl, but the flavour for the past two years has been Eurasian,” he said ...

In prehistoric times, humans would have encountered few mixed-race individuals, so evolutionary forces were unlikely to have led to a preference for a mixed-race appearance per se, said Professor Rhodes.  “They could, however, have shaped perceptions of attractiveness to favour cues to health.” While the health of the Eurasian people used in the study is not known, there is evidence that having parents from very different ancestries may reduce the chances of inheriting two copies of harmful genetic mutations.

Eurasian features were not necessarily the most attractive of all. People also tended to prefer female faces with very feminised features, said Professor Rhodes, whose findings appear in the journal Perception.  Her team has also found that people preferred average computer-generated faces made up of composites to the faces used to make the composites.  “To many people’s surprise, average faces are attractive,” she said.”

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Erm ... another “Go misceginate, young man” article.  I wonder somewhat about the ethnicity of Deborah Smith.  Also, Somerset Maughan was homosexual, of course, and not much of a judge of female sexual attractiveness.  Model agency people aren’t likely to be so either.  Models are not hired for their sexual attractiveness but for their utility in presenting clothing to a female audience.  They have to be capable of “disappearing” sexually into expensive clothing.  The purpose is to sell clothes, not their own genetic perfection.  These days you have to go to the soft-porn industry to study the latter.

Posted by Guessedworker on Saturday, June 25, 2005 at 07:29 AM | #


And what is your point, John?

The media also says ”Black is beautiful”.

Come on. You can do better than that.

Posted by Phil on Saturday, June 25, 2005 at 08:57 AM | #


Models are not hired for their sexual attractiveness

I’m glad somebody said this. Maybe the clothes alone are enough for women to find fashion shoots interesting. To me, they are disappointingly boring - the models are always sexless and dull.

As for the Eurasian thing, I couldn’t disagree more. When I lived in Japan I found the “China doll” type of girl the prettiest, rather than the (very rare) Eurasian.

And the women who really take my breath away with their beauty have always been distinctively European.

Posted by Mark Richardson on Saturday, June 25, 2005 at 10:40 AM | #


To many people’s surprise, average faces are attractive,” she said.”

I suspect that “average” faces are most attractive in women because they, being average, provide the perfect canvass upon which a family may project their own individual, quirky phenotype.  I am sure we have all known people who show off baby pictures and refer to the “Chamber ears” the child has, or the “Richardson brow.” This is true even if the feature in question isn’t particularly attractive.  A woman with very regular, average features would be more likely to have children who would express the paternal family’s own outlying features.  Her children’s features would be less “foreign” to her husband’s family.

Posted by Mrs. Blessed on Saturday, June 25, 2005 at 12:43 PM | #


“To many people’s surprise, average faces are attractive,” she said.”

IMO computer averaging has the effect of making faces symmetrical in the process.  That people prefer symmetrical faces has been shown.  In order for the above statement to have more meaning there has to be a way to average faces without making them symmetrical in the process (or causing more assymmetry) and the test rerun.  People respond to the symmetry in the face.  “Average” faces aren’t average.
The only thing we might conclude based on “average” faces is that people’s face assymmetry is equally left and right and thus tend to cancel out.

I’ve read the above statement before in other places.  It is convential wisdom such as “Race doesn’t exist”; whether it is true is another thing.  I strongly suspect that journalists repeat that statement to make the lonely reader feel good about him/herself.  After all, if average is attractive, then we can all find someone to love us.

Posted by JRM on Saturday, June 25, 2005 at 01:55 PM | #


I’ve noticed that of the Eurasian women of my acquaintance, by far the most attractive of the lot have predominantly European features.

Posted by Stuka on Saturday, June 25, 2005 at 03:52 PM | #


… there is evidence that having parents from very different ancestries may reduce the chances of inheriting two copies of harmful genetic mutations.

But, then, JR posted here of the health defects of mixed race children.  I am also still waiting for the Eurasian populations of Central Asia to show any advantages whatseover compared to the parental stocks.

European populations are large enough to sustain sufficient genetic diversity without admixture from alien races - all the more so since we are always told that “there is more genetic variation within groups than between.” However, if the Chinese believe they need genetic input, they could always start by reversing their absolute refusal for the immigration of Peter Brimelow.  Oh wait, how silly of me - the promotion of miscegenation is only for the white audience, not the Asian who is allowed to preserve his own racial homogeneity and integrity.

Miscegenation destroys genetic interests and the organic solidarity of the native ethny.  In practice, since mass migration today is targeted only to western nations, and since it is mostly western populations that are in demographic decline, the promotion of miscegenation - and make no mistake about it, that’s the underlying message of this post - is genocidal only towards western populations.

That the anti-white, liberal establishment promotes miscegenation is not surprising.  Nor is it surprising that this post is a John Ray production - I knew full well the post’s author before I scrolled down to see the name.

After all, a far-left anti-conservative like John just cannot resist promoting the tearing down of racial boundaries that have been established over tens of thousands of years of sub-speciation.  The self-hating revolutionary defect, whose radical leftist ideology is rooted in destroying one’s ingroup, is certainly manifests itself in the mindset behind the post.

Posted by JW Holliday on Saturday, June 25, 2005 at 05:09 PM | #


Beauty as JRM states above, is enhanced by the more symmetric a face is.  There are symmetric faces in all races.  What’s next then?  Well, degree of lighteness is a definite component of beauty.  We see it in all non-White races.  The more White a person is, the more desirable they become.  Even more, the darker a person is, the more likely they will be discriminated against by their own people. 

I find these types of articles revolting.  They do nothing but try to instill a nefarious meme that says Whites alone are no good but will be “better” if mixed with another race.  If we were allowed to be honest about this assertion, then why do we need to mix Whites with any and all other races to make them better?  Just what exactly is missing from Whites that makes them undesirable or less beautiful and what is missing from all non-Whites that makes them undesirable as well?  Who’s perfect or beautiful then?  Are Whites eyes TOO ROUND and that is why they do not reach the “perfect” level?  Just WTF is it?  The answer is nothing.  It is simply another attack at the gullibility and guilt of Whites to think of themselves less beautiful and worthy.  In order for a White to reach “societal aesthetic perfection”, then they must mix.  How sickening is that?

Posted by Kubilai on Saturday, June 25, 2005 at 06:06 PM | #


“Oh wait, how silly of me - the promotion of miscegenation is only for the white audience, not the Asian who is allowed to preserve his own racial homogeneity and integrity.”

Nice save there, JWH!  Boy, that was close—you almost forgot the way the rules have been set up, but you caught yourself just in time!  Hope it’s not a bit of Alzheimer’s creeping up on you ... But hey, we all have our lapses—I don’t think it meant anything, JW ... If it happens again, though, maybe you should see your doctor—better safe than sorry, as they say! 

“the promotion of miscegenation - and make no mistake about it, that’s the underlying message of this post - is genocidal only towards western populations.”

The article the log entry came from certainly had that as its underlying message, JWH—absolutely no question about that whatsoever:  you’re right.

“a far-left anti-conservative like John just cannot resist promoting the tearing down of racial boundaries that have been established over tens of thousands of years of sub-speciation.  The self-hating revolutionary defect, whose radical leftist ideology is rooted in destroying one’s ingroup, certainly manifests itself in the mindset behind the post.”

John’s a needler, JWH.  When Bertrand Russell was a child he used to amuse himself by climbing way up into trees on his grandmother’s estate then pretending he couldn’t get down again, scaring everyone to death.  He’d wait until his grandmother was frantic with fright and the servants had fetched the tallest ladder they could find and begun to climb up after him, then would calmly and without a single word climb down on his own and silently walk away, leaving everyone standing there with dropped jaws and a heart-attack.  That was one of Lord Russell’s favorite amusements as a child.  Well, John Ray’s like that—he’s got that same sadistic streak; wants to hurt other people.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on Saturday, June 25, 2005 at 06:37 PM | #


“They do nothing but try to instill a nefarious meme that says Whites alone are no good but will be ‘better’ if mixed with another race. [...] It is simply another attack at the gullibility and guilt of Whites to think of themselves less beautiful and worthy.  In order for a White to reach ‘societal aesthetic perfection.’ then they must mix.” (—Kub)

Kub’s right of course—articles such as this are being pushed very aggressively in an undisguised attack on the white-Euro-Christian race.  At bottom, that is their sole aim.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on Saturday, June 25, 2005 at 06:44 PM | #


“"a far-left anti-conservative like John just cannot resist promoting the tearing down of racial boundaries that have been established over tens of thousands of years of sub-speciation.  The self-hating revolutionary defect, whose radical leftist ideology is rooted in destroying one’s ingroup, certainly manifests itself in the mindset behind the post.”

John’s a needler, JWH”

LOL

Nobody has noted that I didn’t say a word about the post.  I just reproduced a news report.  I could violently disagree with it for all anybody knows.

Ans as a matter of fact, as a cynical old psychologist, I do.  All I think it shows is political correctness at work.  People were expressing what they thought would be approved of.

Posted by jonjayray on Saturday, June 25, 2005 at 10:51 PM | #


JR - I noticed that.  Since you’re interested, I’m 1/8 English and 7/8 Southern/Alpine German, though a bit of Slovenian or Magyar might have dropped into the Austrian side at some point.

Posted by ben tillman on Monday, June 27, 2005 at 03:23 PM | #


you are all just fucking jealous and envious that eurasians are generally as average/unique/beautiful/fat ot ugly as anyone else, thanks again for making us feel like genetic freaks, putting us down/exoticising us/ whatever--the point is we don’t really care what other people think of us- unless you talk about us like WE are the fraks, take a good hard look at yoursleves, this has nothing to do with putting down whites, iam ‘half’ (which half?) white too you know, i don’t put either of me down!@

Posted by hssdss on Thursday, March 22, 2007 at 07:35 AM | #


Every race has beautiful people and what you consider “ugly” people so get over it. I’m eurasian and I don’t care what people think of my race, to me every race is beautiful.

Posted by EM on Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 06:15 PM | #


Just goes to show, JJR’s posts have to be deleted in addition to having him banned, so as to stop them from acting as some sorts of dunghills for pointless comments. No offence meant to EM, the only way to respond to irrelevant garbage is usually with irrelevant garbage.

Posted by Alex Zeka on Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 08:11 PM | #


Lee Hyori Korean pop singer is most beautifull woman in world ,and not those ugly Nordics.

Posted by mike on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 03:18 AM | #

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