Comments on: Bollywood’s Tom Cruise Promotes Skin Lightening

By: Wizard

Wizard — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:16:35 +0000

I have to agree a bit with “i dream of boba”. I can’t imagine all the African American stars deciding to be themselves. Ultimately, it’s a little bit their fault by telling the rest of the world that you should comply with racist views. This happens with Hispanics, too. It’s always better to look more Spanish and less Amerindian. Lighter skin, thinner noses, CURLIER hair (since natives have pin straight hair). I’m Hispanic and got “lucky” according to my grandma to have lighter skin but she still bashed me for having straight hair not curly hair. With time, all this crap will end as long as we don’t teach it to our kids.

By: i dream of boba

i dream of boba — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:13:42 +0000

There is a new movie out called “Good Hair”. You have to see what black / african woman go through to have “PC” hair just to be accepted into society. Au naturel tree huggers are always quick to offer, “love your natural, let your hair be” but have never been stared at in public for having “unkept, natural afros”.

Hair is not skin. But the topics are similar.

Can you imagine a world where the black / african celebrities and role models sport “natural afros” ? Beyonce, Oprah, Tyra, all wearing a fro 24-7 ? Yeah, right have you seen a black / african person in senior management sporting “natural afros” ?

Exactly.

By: Vinia

Vinia — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:18:59 +0000

Not everyone who is dark skinned wants to be lighter in order to look more like caucasians. Its like saying the white people who tan are trying to look more like black people.

In India there is definitely the issue of the caste system, which has never gone away in day to day life. People who are lighter skinned tend to be seen as higher caste and the darker ones are seen as lower caste. In India, when someone is lighter, they are more likely to get a better job, marry up & do well socially. Darker people are seen as being fit for outdoor labour & servitude. White people do not even begin to come into it, just like black people have nothing to do with bleached, blondes’ desire for tanning.

By: Kamikatze

Kamikatze — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:00:41 +0000

What I was trying to say was that the Indian craze for “fair” skin is hundreds, and probably even thousands of years old. The British came much later and were only fitting into a system that already existed. I guess the roots of this were ethnic once, because you can still observe that there are very different “types” of Indians.
Anyway, it is convenient for modern India to forget about this, and blame their own faults on the British.

By: Janis

Janis — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:09:48 +0000

Elle, if they want to even out skin, they can do it with darker toned makeup, too. Of COURSE this is about looking whiter. It’s WHITENING.

But you know what? If people want to throw bleach on themselves, then go ahead. Your skin, your self-esteem, your problem.