That is, to my mind it's less of a problem if the marker Asian within your style would be yellow and slightly slanted eyes to trigger that understanding, than if you would draw someone fully realistically...

From what you wrote, Joakim, it looks like you misunderstood what I tried to show with the two pictures I posted. One picture is more realistic than the other, but I did not try to show cartoony versus realism at all. It was the angles of the eyes. In the European rasist version, the entire eyes are slanted: \ /  

(also in JB's description of Chop Chop), while an Asian artist, not being affected by the myth draws the eyes like this - -

 and still succeeds in portraying an Aisan face, even on a similar cartoonish level.

Thanks for the advice everyone, and a special thank you to Lars: Pointing out the differences in the two approachs helped me sort through it in my own mind. I was trying the first approach and having it look wrong while trying to modify it to look right but with the base being off I couldn't figure out a way to make it right.

A thinner rounded eye with a slight interior fold and I think I've got something that works reasonably well. I don't think it says Chinese at first glance but I think if I back it up with text every now and again (having the character speak Chinese for example) no one will be surprised to learn that he's Chinese.

I think it's important to have characters of different ethnicities because we live in a mixed world and too often I feel artists (and on tv, in movies, in books, etcetera), don't take that into account. I don't want to get in the habit of using a white character because I find them easier to draw and don't have to worry about offending anyone if I get wrong.

A side note; I wasn't reading the X-men when Psylocke became asian, but I saw her around and just thought she had gotten a new costume and styled her hair differently. I had absolutely no clue she was asian until someone actually told me. And the artist responsible for most (if not all) of the drawings I'd seen of her was actually asian himself (Jim Lee). Could be that it's just a difficult thing to portray in pencil and ink.

And yet... JB can do it and do it well. Which means a lot of practice but also I believe a lot of focus on making sure to use those ethnicities and use them well.

I was thinking about this topic, and it seems every race can be drawn to some type of stereotype. For instance, many artists draw Captain America, Hank Pym and Clint Barton looking exactly the same, facially, out of costume.  And then there's the Superman/Captain Marvel drawings where only the curl differentiates the two.

I recently decided to do a "kiddie" group, and it included a Japanese character.  Mentally I pictured the character with just lines for eyes, then I decided there was no reason she couldn't have the overlarge eyes I was giving everyone else.

Something I have worked very hard to avoid. Which is why I was less than thrilled when an editor -- coincidentally(?) the same one who had fired me off SHE-HULK -- used three side-by-side panels of the same shot of Hank Pym from my AWC, labeled as Rogers, Pym, Barton, to make a "joke" about how these guys were always drawn with the same face.