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Originally Posted by jorgelito
In the same way that an Asian person is not actually yellow (like a banana peel) and a white person is not actually white like snow, the yellow-white descriptors for a banana regarding the peel-meat relationship are generally accepted as yellow-white, not yellow-yellow. The banana metaphor pejorative is just used for convenience sake and not a literal description. Twinkie is another variation. Likewise, coconut (Filipinios, Latino/as) and Oreo (black or African American) are also used in a similar manner to banana and Twinkie.
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I understand the metaphor means "yellow on the outside, white on the inside." I get that. I think it's idiotic to think one's ethnicity should be the primary determiner of how one should behave, but I understand the implication. I just think it's a strange metaphor to use because bananas aren't white on the inside. "Twinkie" makes more sense as a pejorative. I've never heard "coconut".