As for me I dont know what they would call me. My family's origin is from southern Laos so most lao ppl think that ppl from southern laos is dark. I dont know if im considered light skin or dark skin. I always think of myself as golden tan. Alot of ppl compliment on my complexion.hahah yea what is funny though is people think I look chinese. Im like i dont know i think im too tan to be chinese but they just say that haha. what i can tell you is my mom is a light skin lao lady. My dad is really light like his legs look like white ppls! yuck. My sister was pale up until she went to the military. Its me and my brother who is tan. Well my brother is pretty dark like khmer or phillipino.ahah! SO lao folks dont get offended just answer the question if you want.

I don't like the term yellow skin for Asian. More like brown for me.

your sister kicks your donkey huh??? You buc lair?? ku khon kow. my family too comes in different shades of color, my mom is ghost compared to the rest. Being called yellow doesn't bother me, some people also tend to use Olive vs. yellow or would I be wrong?

my mom is a dark hmong/lao and my dad is a light lao...not sure what parts they're from but yea...im light skin like my dad so everybody basically thinks im chinese haha...and my little sister is dark like my mom..

im kinda in between... tan welps light tan kinda... my mom is really white lao... and my dad is tan/brn thai skin.

i'm dark/tanned.. been outside too much..

Most lao I know:

Sao lao is light most of the time & Bao lao is dark usually. Of course there are dark Sao lao & light boy too but im juss saying thats the mixture I usually see

sam been buk dum lol jp its coo man i got tanned too but i aint dat much tan, ur tan more prolly cuz u frum texas and u get more sun...whereas i live up in MN dont get much sun.

aint nuttin wrong wif bein dark skin anyway, sall good everybody got different skin tones.

Uh excuse me but just because your pretty dark that doesn't make you filipino
. Filipinos are tanned to light skinned and an few that are dark.

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STFU khmer boy I don't want to start any trouble in Laos chat.

baolao18, may i remind you that the extremely sensitive flip boy name Fil-Am will debate with you over filipinos being rather tan skinned not dark skinned. sounds like a girl, "uh excuse me, but filipinos are tan not dark skinned. any mention of filipinos being dark in any thread on AF, there is Fil-et Mignon.

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LOL and I bet you if someone made an khmers are really african post. You would probably jump right on it. Im just setting him straight, loser.

Well sorry hate to tell you but there is alot of dark skin phillipinos. Most are dark skin. Well in Lao peoples eyes Phillipinos are dark skin. My friend's dad is really dark and he is illocano. Yes alot of them are tan and some are light skin but Khmers are like that too. I think the ratio of light skin and dark skin is the same with both phillipinos and khmers. I have seen some light skin khmers too. Yea alot of times you cant tell who is phillipino or who is khmer. Alot of them are really really hot. Nothing wrong with being dark anyways. Even some Lao people look like khmers or phillipinos but its because their family origin is from the deep south of laos and most inhabitants of southern laos has mon-khmer origin. And as for me I consider myself pretty tan but most khmers and phillipinos say im a light skin asian. Lao and viet ppl say im in the middle. Chinese say im dark ahahahaha
Another thing is that ive always thought that phillipinos, real malaysians, and indonesians overall were darker skin than mainland southeast east asians.

I think dark color on Sao laos makes them look hotter but i don't discriminate

What about Isan?

PLease ilocano is only an small part of filipinos and yes I admit most ilocano I know of are dark. But filipinos most filipinos aren't dark like khmers are. LOL you got your facts wrong if you think filipinos look like khmers or Laos. For your information filipino ancestors descended from the aboriginals of Taiwan.So we have nothing in common with Khmers and Laos genetically.LOL you thought wrong if you thought that filipinos were over-all darker skinned then mainland south east asians. In fact though its the other way around.

BTW - Indos and Malays were said to have mixed with indian blood(So Malays and Indos may be darker complex due to that). So maybe they aren't as pure malay as filipinos. Well thats what the malays were saying in Malaysian chat.

Taiwanese Aboriginals-Ancestors of modern day malays



Do you see an difference

Laos


Filipina


Khmer

Fil-AM:

Most filipinos that I know are of mixed descendents, most probably have some european blood. Usually, the ones with a light tan skin are the most beautiful.

Here is an non-mixed filipina does she look dark to you.


She is non-mixed too




This is an example of an filipina with some European blood

if you're gonna post pics of a "malay". please post pics of malays of the philippines NOT taiwan.

since you love to post pics so much fil-am. here are filipino malays.

Guys.. calm the fu-k down.. It was kinda funny the first few posts in the Viet chat but now it's just messed up..

LOL they are tanned filipinos dressed up like indignous filipinos so what.

At least were not like you khmer negritos.

you just hurt my feelings... that pic i posted up of flips. they look like pacific islanders rather than "asian". or those primitive african tribes from the sub-saharan desert. why is that flip guy showing his big titties for?looking like a samoan. why do they have bird feathers on their head?

And those are just one of the few tribes in the Philippines.

Uh don't Pacific Islanders wear hula skirts and leahs and all that stuff. LOL filipinos are mongoloid because our ancestors came from the aboriginals of Taiwan. While you khmers look like an mix between indian and negrito.

WOW..

Fil-Am:filipinos are tan skinned and they are mongoloids. khmers are dark and are negritos.

that feather hat they got on and their huge stature make them look like pacific islanders. so fil-am, can you tell me what do filipinos have in common with the rest of SEAsians?

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Like most south-east asians, lao are of tan skin of different tones. The notherners are usually lighter than the southerners. And the girls are usually of ligher skin than the boys.

But don't you think having a tan skin colour makes you look healthier than having a pale skin?
I do think so. I hate the winter here because I look pale and unhealthy without much outdoor activity.

These are some lao boys and girls after their graduation.

http://community.webshots.com/photo/185154...185155756fzwJNM

http://community.webshots.com/photo/185154...185155282DsCunR

Your an idiot that was only one of the many indigenous tribes of the Philippines.
Here is are 2 T'boli women, one of the tribes in the Philippines is she dressed like an P-Islander to you.

you didn't answer my question flip boy. what do pinoys have in common with SEAsians?

We both grow rice, some of our dances the tinikling look similar to that of Thais bamboo stick dancing. And we are genetically asian.

Being Buddhist and having an indian influenced culture doesn't make you SEAsian.
Tell me this what do you have in common with Viets or Malaysia.

LOL grow rice.. those island countries basically have the same terrain as the mainland. rice is a native crop of SEAsia. those island countries just got separated from the mainland hundreds of thousands years ago. the tinkling dance huh? is that all?

yes, you do have to practice buddhism somewhat because buddhism was introduced throughout asia by the indians thousands of years ago. china,japan,korea,vietnam,laos,cambodia,thailand,indonesia(don't know about now) all practice buddhism in one form or another. our foods are also similar. stir fried dishes,soups,desserts,dances,arts and basically everything else. we also use chopsticks LOL.

sorry to break it to ya, but the philippines and the filipino people have very little in common with SEAsians and East Asians.

oops, i forgot burma! they also practice buddhism and share a lot of similarities with them too!

Thats just the white mans stereotyping of asian culture, loser. Filipinos have noodles too we call it pancit. Geez so buddhism didn't make it big in the Philippines so what. That doesn't take anything away from filipinos. Basically your saying since were nothing like khmers then we probably aren't South East Asians.

LOL and for your information were not p-islander. Modern filipino culture is spanish influenced, loser.

And does she look non-asian to you because she happens to be filipina.


Filipinos are still asian, lol you don't have to be khmer to be asian.

Calm down guys.. I think the similarities in looks of us all is undeniable, even if there are a lot of differences. Let's look at the bigger picture. And the most important thing is that we are all human beings. I know it's hard to do when you are in an argument and I've been in that situation but this particular battle has been going on for like 3 days.. Enough already.

I'm not saying this because I want to be a goodie goodie but sometimes enough is enough.. I came on today and saw 5 closed threads and my name brought into it.. I'm sick of this constant fighting.

Enough is enough. Most of the pics shown in this thread differ in skin tone by not much.. In fact most Chinese in Chinatown are darker than that. And tan skin often looks more healthy and attractive, especially for us average, non-celeb people.

whenever i interact with filipinos, i just can't connect with them culturally.. it's like interacting with foreigners from another land..but with other asians such as laotians,thais and to some extent the vietnamese, i can connect with them culturally..

And Im sure you get the same thing like-wise from filipinos. They probably think they are interacting with an african or something.

sure you do because you're spanish/american/pacific islanders. i've encountered a lot of filipinos claiming to have spanish,american and pacific islander heritage. JUST CANNOT CONNECT WITH THEM AT ALL!!!

EDIT: i don't know how to explain it but...whenever i'm around filipinos, i just don't get this "asian" vibe yunno? i just don't feel the "asian" atmosphere whenever i'm around them. i don't know how to explain it..

LOL those filipinos who think they are pacific-islanders are confused traitors. And those claiming to have spanish heritage are like that because the spanish have made us think that we are spanish. Doesn't matter that filipinos have an spanish influenced culture it doesn't take away from the fact that we look asian and are asian.

well, i still consider you guys asian but from physical appearance only. other than that, i consider filipinos just a foreigner or a western or whatever you want to call it.. that's just my opinion..i'm sure many others share the same view as me.

Probably not that many, and I think thaty India is not really asian. They have more in common with the Middle East. So basically in my eyes you copied from an non-asian culture.

i think that indians have more similarities in culture with SEAsians and to some extent East asians with buddhism and all than filipinos do... filipinos can perfectly fit in with the spanish,americans and pacific islanders..just my opinion..

not to mention, indians were probably the first asians to use incense in religious ceremony than the use of incense became widespread throughtout mainland asia and japan and korea.

LOL your not giving reasons that filipinos are not asian. Your just giving reasons why filipinos are not indians. And stop mentioning P-islanders we have nothing in common with them. Its like me saying khmers are better of being called an african country.

Does she look like an P-Islander to you

well, with the cultural influence india had in SEAsia and religious influence it had in East Asia, buddhism could also be known as an asian religion. it's been a part of asia for thousands of years. so the indians also had a profound impact culturally in asia and i consider them more "asian" than filipinos.

Well the Philippines has been influenced by China, so what. They gave us mah jong and noodles. And some words in tagalog are chinese influenced.

So India is an asian country because they influenced some SEAsian countries.

no, you don't get it.. buddhism is not as popular as it once was back in ancient times in india. buddhism has been flourishing throughout asia and it became an important part of each asian ethnic culture: the chinese,japanese,koreans,khmers,laotians,vietnamese and thai. buddhism teaches discipline and tolerance. it could also be labeled an ASIAN religion since it is more popular in asia than it is in india. hinduism is now the most widespread in india. buddhism is an important part of most asian societies..

How about Malaysia and Indonesia they aren't buddhist they are Muslim. So they aren't asian too.

indonesians were once buddhist and i read somewhere that there are still pockets left of buddhist followers in indonesia. as for malaysia, they are similar to philippines but they are not as foreign to us as the filipinos are. maybe it's because malaysia wasn't colonized by america and spain.. iono..

my parents just got back from india. they told me there were thousands of buddhist followers from china,japan,korea,cambodia,vietnam,thailand and burma visiting the birth place of the Buddha.

Whatever religion doesn't make you Asian. Isn't South Korea like half Christian/Catholic or something.

have you heard of the song call "Asian Pride" Fil-Am?

"It's the AzN nigga fu-k da rest
Dallas to New York jigga,we da best"

WOOT WOOT AzN InVaZiOn HoLLa!

Sorry Im not into that hip-hop culture like you khmers are.

woow...dis is goin off somewhere....