The inscrutability of our faces is what makes us so exotic and mystical and tricksy, wot?
The thing is that while my oriental face might be inscrutable, my white friend just plays it (her emotions) close to her chest. As you rightly point out, there's so much history and culture accumulation behind a simple sentence. Deliberately inscrutable? Why can't it just be that white people don't know how to read our faces because they've culturally othered our faces and bodies(even those of us who have spent all our lives here) for generations and never bother to learn what we looked like when we were thinking?
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Date: 2010-06-07 03:11 pm (UTC)The inscrutability of our faces is what makes us so exotic and mystical and tricksy, wot?
The thing is that while my oriental face might be inscrutable, my white friend just plays it (her emotions) close to her chest. As you rightly point out, there's so much history and culture accumulation behind a simple sentence. Deliberately inscrutable? Why can't it just be that white people don't know how to read our faces because they've culturally othered our faces and bodies(even those of us who have spent all our lives here) for generations and never bother to learn what we looked like when we were thinking?