racism is now history
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- pascii
fair and lovely
- Redmond0
Why is it racist?
- PSYKHO0
True bollywood style!
- exador10
i think it's pretty retarded, to be honest....
my wife is indian, and i recall her telling me that one of her cousins back in India was having a hard time getting married....as far as my wife was concerned, this particular girl was probably the prettiest of all her cousins by far, but because she had darker skin, it was difficult to get her 'arranged' so to speak....some family's wanted a huge amount of money just because of it....
If she were here, and free and clear from some of those influences, and was (like my wife) able to just date or meet any guy she wanted, she could probably have her pick of a ton of guys...but back home, thats just the way it is at the moment....
i think the term i hear a lot for the lighter skin tone is 'wheatish'....
lol
sweet jebus...I'll absolutely never ever understand this obsession with the whole dark vs. light thing..
pretty is pretty....period....whether you're as dark as night or 'wheatish'....- I know exactly what you're talking about. I have cousins who have went through this.Jaline
- Thanks for explaning racism by using another hate term.Redmond
- so indians are racist too. good to know.flashbender
- I think most cultures are racist within themselves.Jaline
- "within themselves." is unnecessary. you could have left it at "Most cultures are racist."flashbender
- Both statements are true.Jaline
- Some people may not realize that this type of racism occurs within cultures.Jaline
- *culture = raceJaline
- Mimio0
It's fun to trade one superficial standard for another.
- i_monk0
It's not strictly a race issue. Light and dark skin can be class markers too: dark skin means you work outside because you're poor, light skin means you're rich and stay inside all day. That's how it was in Europe for centuries. Now dark skin means you're healthy and active outdoors and white skin means you read too much Slashdot in your mom's basement.
- Jnr_Madison0
I'm so white people often ask me if I'm ill.
- True story.Jnr_Madison
- How are feeling, btw? Your color come back yet?locustsloth
- _niko0
How's it racist? everyone loves white women, just ask black guys.
- SoulFly0
Is there a translation to what he says at the beginning?
Interesting story, during an advertising class in school, we had a famous speaker, this advertising "guru" from India, he was based on the UK at the time, but he mentioned during class this award winner advertising he created for a pill that made a woman's menstrual cycle to happen sooner, that was because the Indian woman are not allowed to cook food during their menstruation - so the pill will be helpful if there was a weeding or something coming up and they needed to prepare food.So that talk opened a whole can of worms in class, every girl was outraged, they didn't understand why that was an issue. They guy just said, that's how it is in India.
- wedding that is...SoulFly
- I know they can't go to a temple or anything because having your period = impure.Jaline
- what a bunch of cunts making people believe its unclean, impure or some other bullshit.mikotondria3
- megE0
do they know how much money/time white people spend tanning?
- rupedixon0
It's not racist at all. All cultures have their 'ideal' of beauty, in india it is obviously having very pale skin.
All they're saying is that this product makes your skin paler, therefore you will conform better to the stereotypical idea of beauty.
It's no more racist than if it were reversed and showed some dude ignoring a girl with very pale skin, then noticed her after a spot of fake tan. It's an advert for cosmetics. That's all.
- jfletcher0
saying this is racists is pretty ignorant of other cultures.... not to mention people throw out racists when there is anything to do with skin color.
- kuzzAAAAM0
that is totally fucking racist.
- kuzzAAAAM0
oh...
- lowimpakt0
how can a regional definition of beauty be out of the boundaries of that region???
that's globalisation in a tube.