It was ironically oblique, a rebuke to bigotry referring to how bigots tend to seize upon visual cues to set their targets apart whether valid or not: a Jewish nose, dark skin, epicanthic folds, a limp wrist, etc. ❋ Readingthedark (2010)
He leaned toward her, laughing, a male version of her beauty — dark hair, faint epicanthic folds of the eyelids, golden skin. ❋ Unknown (2010)
His skin glowed like warm honey in the noon sun — smooth, his face with its trace of epicanthic folds and full lips saved from prettiness by a small, jagged scar on one cheek. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Otherwise, don't expect to see dark skin or epicanthic folds on the leads unless the actors playing them are superstars like Denzel Washington whose star power transcends their race. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The theory certainly exists that this is an adoption and exaggeration of Western standards of beauty; in a related matter, surgery to remove the epicanthic fold from the eye to make it look larger has been popular in Japan, and the famed animator Hayao Miyazaki once said, controversially, that "the Japanese hate their own faces." ❋ Unknown (2008)
They may include a single transverse palmar crease (a single instead of a double crease across one or both palms, also called the Simian crease), an almond shape to the eyes caused by an epicanthic fold of the eyelid, upslanting palpebral fissures, shorter limbs, poor muscle tone, a larger than normal space between the big and second toes, and protruding tongue. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Or how about dividing humanity by who has epicanthic eye folds, which produce the "Asian" eye? ❋ Steve Carper (2008)
Dark eyes, epicanthic folds obviously the result of surgery, an angry dusting of acne across pale narrow cheeks. ❋ Boudreau Freret (2010)
I just thought that with his epicanthic folds and broad, flat nose bridge Russell had Down's Sydrome ❋ Unknown (2009)
Her complexion was almost gray, and any trace of epicanthic fold her eyes had once had was long-gone. ❋ Unknown (2009)
With that point, I agree: my image of the Dothraki from reading the books is that they look more-or-less like Mongols, with long, straight black hair, black irises and epicanthic folds, and golden-tan skin. ❋ Unknown (2009)
There's one frame where his eyes show through his glasses: they are distinctly slanted, with no epicanthic fold. ❋ Tanita Davis (2008)
Whereas an eye with an epicanthic fold is pointy on the outer corner and more rounded off on the inside ... like an almond. ❋ Unknown (2006)
First off, I agree that it's too simple to refer to all Asian eyes as "almond shaped", but just to play devil's advocate or whatever, I think the "almond shaped eyes" thing is due white folks getting freaked out by the epicanthic fold (which not all Asians have, and it's not super strongly represented in the pics you posted ... but whatever ...). ❋ Unknown (2006)
If you look at the white people eyes, they do not have the epicanthic fold on the inside corners, and so are "extra pointy" on both ends. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It could be that Nefertiti had an epicanthic fold, a piece of skin from the upper eyelid covering the inner edge of the eye. ❋ Jan (2008)
Traits: As sickle-cell "races" and epicanthic-fold "races" show, there are as many ways to group people as there are traits. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Or do you prefer to group people by whether they have epicanthic eye folds, which produce the "Asian" eye? ❋ Unknown (2008)
Widespread outrage over the immigrants 'creepy animation and brazen lack of epicanthic folds compelled Congress to pass the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred all further immigration from China. ❋ Unknown (2008)
