To me she is not exotic. Is it because she's not fully white? Because to me "exotic" means someone with unusual features regardless of race. They can be white,black,asian,mixed,hispanic,etc.
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shareI think it's just because she's mixed.
IMO, Shay is more of a classic beauty.
yeah exotic is usually equated with mixed raced nowadays. she is a very pretty girl, but her features are not unusual or unique. in fact her look is very typical for a eurasian girl.
shareSeems like in America, nonwhite = "exotic". It's an antiquated (and vaguely racist) mentality, but what can you do? Shay's beauty looks fairly conventional/straightforward to me. Truly exotic lookers would be women like Catherine Zeta-Jones, Eva Green, Faye Dunaway, Kate Moss, Ava Gardner, Gene Tierney, et al.
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I think redheads are exotic because I don't see many of them but yes most people have copied the media's lead by only using "exotic" to describe a woman of non-White background.
shareHoly bill of rights, Batman! Someone actually GETS IT! I hate how everyone says "she is such an exotic beauty!" about absolutely EVERY non-white woman in Hollywood, or like those skanky looking girls on Tumblr who wear 40 lbs of makeup and submit their own pics to fckyeahwereallbeautiful. K. Lo, Adriana Lima, Aiswarya Rai, Frieda Pinto, Megan Fox, Monica Bellucci, etc are always called that but are not exotic.
You are totally right and it's good to see someone actually knows what the word means. She is classic, not even remotely exotic looking because her features are bland, not unusual which is what exotic means.
Troian is the most exotic, Lucy sort of is too. Ashley only is a bit with her eye + face shape. Race, hair color, skin tone, eye color have NOTHING TO DO WITH IT, contrary to popular opinion. I mean, Ali Larter for example is blonde, blue eyed, pale and Nordic looking and she's exotic. Beyonce, as a counterexample, is copper skinned, darkhaired, and dark eyed and is 100% a classic beauty with her big eyes, straight nose, big smile, even features, etc.
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I actually think Adriana Lima is exotic, with her feline-shaped eyes, bee-stung lips and startling coloring. I believe she has Asian blood in her, so that might explain it.
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You need to do research, actually Cleopatra was a fully Greek woman who was rather Homely.
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