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I have a REALLY small £#!%

2017-02-06 · 5 min

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  1. My face is really small. When I went to

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  2. Japan for the first time, Japanese people

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  3. kept saying to me, Daniel, your face is so

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  4. small. Daniel, you have a tiny face. And I

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  5. didn't even know how to react to that.

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  6. What are you supposed to say to someone

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  7. when they tell you that you've got a tiny

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  8. face? Because in England, no one gives a

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  9. shit about how big or how small your face

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  10. is. But in Asia, it's considered to be

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  11. really attractive to have a small face,

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  12. and it's very unattractive to have a large

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  13. face. At first, I didn't really realize

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  14. this. It was a completely new concept to

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  15. me that having a small face was

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  16. attractive. And at first, I didn't realize

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  17. it. Was a huge compliment to be told that

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  18. your face is really small. So it's

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  19. probably kind of difficult to tell how

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  20. small my face is because I'm all alone and

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  21. there's not really any point of reference.

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  22. So here's a CD. I'm going to put it in

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  23. front of my face now.

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  24. As you can see, the CD completely covers

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  25. my face. You can try this at home with

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  26. your own CD. Does a CD cover your entire

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  27. face? If so, then you can join me in the

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  28. tiny face club. Okay, so it's great having

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  29. a small face and being complimented all

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  30. the time on how tiny your face is, but

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  31. it's not so great when your girlfriend's

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  32. face is like 10 times bigger than your

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  33. own. Japanese girls didn't like taking

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  34. photos with me because my face was so much

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  35. smaller than theirs, and they don't like

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  36. it when the guy's face is smaller because

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  37. it makes them feel less feminine. It was

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  38. really difficult trying to take a photo

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  39. with my first girlfriend who was Japanese

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  40. because Her face was huge in comparison to

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  41. mine, and she would get really embarrassed

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  42. even standing next to me when we were

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  43. standing in front of a reflective surface

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  44. like a mirror or a big window. And when we

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  45. took photos together, she had to stand way

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  46. back behind me. We would never take a

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  47. photo standing side by side. And I kind of

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  48. used to tease her when we were standing in

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  49. front of a reflective surface. I used to

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  50. put my face really close to hers like this

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  51. and laugh, and then she would get really

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  52. angry and like she would say, stop, stop

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  53. coming so close to me. For me personally,

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  54. I didn't really care if my girlfriend's

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  55. face was bigger than mine because you

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  56. can't really tell how big your own face

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  57. is. Your eyes are inside of your head.

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  58. You can't even see your own face unless

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  59. you have a mirror or you're taking a photo

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  60. of yourself. But for some girls, it's kind

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  61. of a big deal. They even go as far as

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  62. getting plastic surgery. I don't know how

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  63. they do it. They like shave down their jaw

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  64. to make their face look slimmer. I do find

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  65. that in general, Asian people have larger

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  66. faces than Caucasian people. Caucasian

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  67. people tend to have narrow, longer faces.

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  68. And Asian people, they tend to have like a

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  69. rounder, flatter face, and that gives off

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  70. this illusion that their faces are so much

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  71. larger than Caucasian people. Okay, this

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  72. is kind of unrelated, but Asian people

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  73. also tend to have longer torsos than their

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  74. legs. For example, I could be taller than

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  75. a Japanese girl, but when we sit down next

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  76. to each other, she's actually higher up

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  77. than me because her torso is longer than

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  78. mine. I used to find it really strange. I

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  79. sat down next to her and I'd look at her

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  80. And she was higher up than me. And I was

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  81. like, what? How come— how come you're

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  82. higher up than me when I'm taller than

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  83. you? At first, I thought it's because I

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  84. slouch a bit when I sit down and she sat

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  85. up really straight. But even when I sat up

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  86. really straight as well, she was still

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  87. higher than me. I think that Caucasian

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  88. people tend to have longer legs and a

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  89. shorter torso, and Asian people have

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  90. shorter legs and a longer torso. Maybe

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  91. that's why you don't see many Olympic

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  92. runners who are Asian. And I think that

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  93. Black people have even longer legs than

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  94. Caucasian people in general. That's why

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  95. when you watch things like the Olympics or

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  96. running sports, the fastest people are

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  97. always black guys. Sometimes I think to

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  98. myself, isn't that a bit unfair? They have

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  99. a genetic advantage. They have longer

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  100. legs. That's like cheating. But it would

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  101. be really controversial if they separated

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  102. running sports into black people, white

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  103. people, and Asian people. Okay, so here's

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  104. a nice picture of me standing next to a

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  105. Japanese guy and his Thai girlfriend. And

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  106. look at the size difference between my

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  107. face and their faces. And it's not even

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  108. like I'm standing behind them. I'm

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  109. standing right next to them, and my face

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  110. looks absolutely tiny in comparison. I

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  111. kind of look like their 10-year-old son,

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  112. don't I? It's really bizarre to look at.

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  113. I never considered these 2 people to have

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  114. large faces. They looked normal. They

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  115. looked like average-sized faces. But after

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  116. taking a photo with them, it made me

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  117. think, wow, my face really is small. You

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  118. know, sometimes I do wish that I had a

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  119. larger face because What if some girls are

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  120. instantly put off by me because my face

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  121. makes their face look so much bigger? And

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  122. it's awkward taking photos together. I

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  123. don't want to make them feel bad. I don't

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  124. want to make them feel less feminine. I

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  125. found that it was extremely rare to find

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  126. another Asian person who has a face as

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  127. small as mine. I think it's safe to say

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  128. that the majority of Asian people have

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  129. much larger faces than me. See, this is

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  130. another problem, isn't it? Where can I

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  131. find a girlfriend who has the exact same

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  132. body proportions? As me. Why can't I just

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  133. clone myself as a girl and have that as my

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  134. girlfriend? Why? Come on, science, make it

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  135. happen. That'd be so messed up.

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