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Title: Asian heads?
Post by: bandit86 on 14 April 2009, 11:50:33 AM

Any one make male Asian heads (looking for ones with glasses) Modern/ WWII type hats preferably?

Title: Re: Asian heads?
Post by: Plynkes on 14 April 2009, 12:22:49 PM

What do you mean by Asian? When Americans say Asian they tend to mean East Asian, i.e. Chinese/Korean/Japanese. etc. In Britain the term 'Asian' without any context generally means someone from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanki (the countries of the old Raj). There is a sizeable minority of people from that background here, for obvious historical reasons, and so 'The Asian Community' has come to refer to them, rather than, say, the Chinese here.

Asia is a big place.  :)

Though whichever you mean, I can't think of any such heads available separately at the moment for either. Sorry.

Title: Re: Asian heads?
Post by: Dewbakuk on 14 April 2009, 01:38:42 PM

"sizeable minority"

Gotta love oxymorons :)

Title: Re: Asian heads?
Post by: Plynkes on 14 April 2009, 02:20:17 PM

That's not an oxymoron. Minority means the smaller of two groups, doesn't necessarily mean the group described is inherently small, just smaller than the other group.

You'd probably think they were a pretty sizeable group if they all came round your house asking to use your loo at the same time.  :)

Title: Re: Asian heads?
Post by: Skrapwelder on 14 April 2009, 02:24:22 PM

Westwind does some Japanese heads in their Samurai range.

http://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=182&products_id=1369 (http://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=182&products_id=1369)

Title: Re: Asian heads?
Post by: bandit86 on 15 April 2009, 06:06:25 AM

Thanks.  Sorry to ruffle you up Plynkes I am an American so I guess I was meaning East Asian.