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Does your skin colour define you?


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He's the rugged type, with sculpted arm muscles. He rides a motorcycle and wears a trendy tank top, wraparound sunglasses and slicked-back hair. There's only one problem: His skin color is a few shades too dark. His fair-skinned love interest won't even accept his offer of a rose. Plenty of people simply rejected the notion of skin colour differentiating people.

In india skin colouring is an industry. Does your skin colour define you?
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11 responses // Does your skin colour define you?

  • I thought India would be in a better position to teach the world about the pitfalls of Whitness trends.
    Hidalgo
  • ""The new India story is completely about aspirations in the smaller cities. It's no longer an ad for motorbikes that shows a woman getting her sari crushed on a bus. Now it's an ad about owning a car -- and not just any car, a big car," "


    Na bravo. Because life means nothing unless you have a big car. What a bunch of idiot.
    stardate
  • I had a friend from India once and she told me how hard it was for her growing up darker complected. It's really sad.
    fauxsherrrr
  • it just seems funny to me....white people always want to tan and dark skinned people want to look white...just be who you are and be what you are
    cheakywillie
  • This is old news for the black community. The lighter your skin complexion, the prettier you're considered. The Alicia Keyes' of the world so to speak. It's especially rampant in the Carribbean and Africa. There are many bleaching products to choose from and though most of us can tell when it's being used, they as popular as ever.

    You would think the idea that having light skin makes you better and more attractive is perpetuated by the media, but really, it comes from within the community. When you see the light-skinned girl getting better treatment because she has high-yellow skin and "good hair", and the dark skin girl gets either made fun of or ignored, you realize we ourselves define what beauty is. Let's face it. We're human. We're never satisfied unless someone says we prefer you.
    Neghie
  • I'm mixed with African American and Mexican. People these days automaticly quess that I'm mixed completly on my skin tone and hair.
    I would like to think my skin color dosen't define me, but I can't make every one else see or think that.
    arry
  • Neghie:

    I think it's more of a catch-22. The whole colorism within racism issue was injected into the community, and reinforced by the media. I don't think the community came up with it, but that's not to say that the community doesn't perpetuate the system.
    radiovolume
  • I know the community didn't come up with it. I said alot of it comes from within the community. This kind of thinking can only be sustained if the people, in these very 'communities', hold to those ideas themselves.

    The idea that white is good and black is bad can only be altered through time. When my mother talks about how pretty my little cousin is simply because she's light-skinned, it's not all the media's fault that I grow up thinking that I'd be so much better if I was a couple of shades lighter. I'm saying, alot of it is totally internal.
    Neghie
  • Please! Color has defined us since slavery in America. it was something the media later picked up on and ran into the doggone ground.
    96thdayofrage
  • Skin colour appearance and perception all a tribal thing from human past.Skin colour people will always see that but other qualities also come into play also so skin is not only thing that defines a person in society.I'm capuccino colour and I got mistake for a terrorist in the Czech republic,it shows how some people in some societies lack any intelligence and common sense.For example,I was in a village there and a cop came to my friend said your friend a terrorist? A terrorist is not going to come to some quiet place and stick out there lol.
    silverkinguk
  • Wouldn't it be nice if we could just change our skin colour in safe ways...
    Owwmykneecap

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