What is wrong with being considered both beautiful and intelligent?
Stereotypes are superficial ways of trying to describe people; they also apply to groups rather than actual individuals. In the case of Eurasians, it’s also unfair to those who happen to be ugly and/or stupid (kidding). Being (over)defined in terms of one’s appearance can also lead one to (over)experience oneself through the eyes of others. Incidentally the stereotype of Eurasians as being beautiful seems to exist in both “East” and “West” (in my experience many Asians in the West seem to rationalize “marrying out” to Caucasians by claiming that they simply want to have “beautiful children”—in my opinion an argument which often masks an operative desire to marry into a social strata with higher status]).
