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Q: Yellow skin or jaundice?
This is probably the dumbest question I've ever asked, but it's genuine. How many Chinese people do you know that have yellow skin? I've only met a few, and I figure those people have hepatitis B or something. Am I missing something?
11 years 9 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
I've never seen a yellow person who wasn't either suffering from jaundice or had been recreated on The Simpsons.
Hep B doesn't cause yellow skin (at least not very often). Jaundice is a blood disorder but if someone is suffering from it look at the eyes they are a clearer indication (for a layman).
As to skin tone,
Do Caucasians have 'white' skin?
Do 'blacks' have 'black' skin?
I actually use this as part of a lesson, I ask my students to describe my / their skin and follow it up with a discussion about perceptions and stereotypes.
Hulk:
Hep B causes yellow skin about 30% of the time.
The only people with yellow skin that I see in China, are those who also have yellowish eyes.
Otherwise, I don't see how Chinese people can say they have "yellow" skin. I like your skin-color lesson, by the way.
They used to be called the yellow peril? Personally I have never seen a yellow Chinese? Maybe it was back when opium was smoked in abundance? Or jaundice? Franck3
No, I haven't seen any yellow skin chinese. It's mostly fair skin and sometimes with a little tan so it would be a brownish tan color. I've seen a chinese Albino with yellow hair before.
