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- perryc, on 01/13/2009, -6/+48Oh Michael, you gave false hope to so many people...
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -1/+26Maybe they're not trying to look white...they're trying to look like Tyra Banks and Beyonce...who are trying to look white.
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -1/+24Too true. Ironically enough, it's lighter people in the US trying to get darker :-(
- daxter241, on 01/13/2009, -3/+24why do i get the feeling that even if their skin were to lighter, it still wouldn't change the way they feel about themselves.....
I'm black and i wouldn't even consider messing around with that kind of stuff. - EH90, on 01/13/2009, -0/+20Well his life actually got worse as his skin got lighter...
- complacentpanda, on 01/13/2009, -0/+17It's rough how certain perceptions of beauty can lead to harmful outcomes (cancer in this case). Happens in the United States too...
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -4/+21It's pretty common in Japan for women to "anglo" their eyes to form an eyelid.... I have a great aunt in Hokkaido who tapes her eyelids at night to try and get that same anglo lid.
Yeah, it's messed up. - GoKings, on 01/13/2009, -0/+16omg @ that mustache
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -0/+16Grass is always greener... or whiter... or browner... or something.
- nascentia, on 01/13/2009, -0/+15It's sad that people go to such extreme, abusive means to alter their looks, just to try and meet some false standard or perception of what's "right" and beautiful.
- ictoan, on 01/13/2009, -4/+19Could be said also for white women who burn their skin to look tanner...
A lot of Asians want to look whiter too..
People all want what they don't have. - latexsolarbeef, on 01/13/2009, -0/+13"You ever heard of vitiligo? Well I got re-vitiligo. It's the opposite of what Michael Jackson has (lucky bastard). Every year I keep getting blacker, and darker, and blacker...and then mo' darker."
- eggloaf, on 01/13/2009, -0/+13Yeah we'll all be here, anxiously awaiting your return.
- crazlunatic, on 01/13/2009, -3/+15was it just me or did all the woman in that video appear to be black and not even close to white at all?
- FormulaVette, on 01/13/2009, -2/+13and white american women lay in tanning boths to look black...
- Rahszhul, on 01/13/2009, -0/+10Good to see Star-Bellied Sneetches are still alive and well.
- kingmanic, on 01/13/2009, -1/+11No anglo. Asian eyes come in a few flavors. The eyes without epicanthic fold and with a double fold look larger and considered more attractive. In my family I don't have an epicanthic fold but my brother and sister do. I'm not certain if the goal is really trying to anglicize eyes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicanthal_fold
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_blepharoplasty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicanthoplasty
Incidentally there is a kit you can use which glues the eyelid in a way that mimics the results of the surgery. - inactive, on 01/13/2009, -0/+9Once you go white, you never go...
...oh wait, no. That doesn't work... - maduin, on 01/14/2009, -0/+9My mom has this side business here in the states where she sells whitening cream to her friends and contacts across the US. She imports hundreds of these little jars of cream that are supposed to clear up and whiten your complexion and sells them for a 20 dollar profit per jar. She's been doing this for the past 2 years or so and makes quite a healthy chunk of change.
Most of her customers are Laotian or other South East Asian folk, who find fairer skin to be more beautiful. She gets these jars from Afghanistan and has recently found a supplier from the Philippines that sells for a lower price. I've always wondered what was in these jars, as there are no labels that contain ingredients or chemicals and the only guarantee we have is from the seller that says it no longer contains bleaching chemicals.
Is there any cheap way to get these jars of cream analyzed? As I'd feel horrible if I found out that my mom was peddling cancer causing cream to all her friends around the US. - cobbwobbles, on 01/13/2009, -0/+8So awful, just so awful and depressing...
- Scrappy1850, on 01/13/2009, -2/+10...looking for a job?
...to KFC?
...to jail? - idontknowmaybe, on 01/13/2009, -0/+7This is incredibly sad.
Whenever i visit relatives in India, I'm bombarded with "fair and lovely" commercials/advertisements. All of my female cousins there are preoccupied with lighter skin. - T8erT0T, on 01/13/2009, -0/+7No, it just fried his brain.
- TheSexyGeek, on 01/13/2009, -0/+7It happens a lot in the poorer communities in Jamaica. Women bleach their skin to look more "brown" rather than black. If you've ever seen a girl with a mid-brown skin tone and dark arms and legs, you've seen bleaching in action. I think it's hideous. It gives the skin this strange colour that looks more like a chemical burn than light skin. Even some men in Jamaica do it. I prefer to just be black.
- Namingway, on 01/13/2009, -1/+8This crap showed a picture of a woman's chest with some spots on it & a picture of a chick with a mustache.
Here is what REALLY happened in Senegal.
News Guy 1: " Hea, look at that it is a creme that says it whitens skin."
News Guy 2: " Hea ya, I wonder if anyone actually uses it."
News Guy 1:" Who cares, lets just write a story saying they do THIS IS AWESOOME!"
News Guy 2: "Sensationalistic my brothah!!"
EDIT: Furthermore, the term video is misleading, I thought I was going to bear witness to the ravages of skin whitening. - inactive, on 01/13/2009, -0/+7Jacko IS cancer.
- scaryberry, on 01/13/2009, -0/+6Maybe it's so President Taylor won't call off the invasion force?
- jba68, on 01/13/2009, -0/+6no, to look orange... get it straight
- PityDaFool, on 01/13/2009, -0/+6EVERYBODY needs a little KFC.
- kakwakas, on 01/13/2009, -0/+6Reminds me of the people that use the 'fake bake' tanning cream and end up looking orange. It's pretty much hideous.
- tonberryqueen, on 01/13/2009, -0/+6I have really pale skin--I can burn badly in twenty minutes of direct sunlight without sunscreen on--and I tried really hard when I was a kid to get it darker. Eventually I decided I liked my skin fine this way.
Plus, you know, lack of skin cancer. And lack of leathery skin when I hit 40. - samoan27, on 01/13/2009, -2/+7"To see the effects of racism based on skin color most clearly, one should go to the developing world."
That's not racism that's mimicing the upper class, something common among all societies at all times in history. - JesseJ, on 01/13/2009, -0/+5That is just as sad as all the white girls who hit the tanning booths.
Be yourself - that's hot. - Aleut, on 01/13/2009, -0/+5Maybe this will help stop the terrible genocide occurring in Sangala and allow President Taylor to withdraw troops without having the blood of hundreds of thousands of Sangalese on her hands.
- c5kirk, on 01/13/2009, -0/+5Hey... lay off KFC... that's some good chicken.
- Mockylock, on 01/13/2009, -0/+5How can one blame them for wanting to look pasty white like myself?
- antistupid, on 01/13/2009, -4/+9This is deeper than Micheal Jackson..though he is a product of the same mindstate. This has been going on for decades if not centuries due to the westernization of many parts of Africa through colonolization. As a result, the western (white) ideals of beauty were imposed upon these people giving way to practices such as bleaching skin.
The sick irony of it all is that white women spend hours in the sun to darken their skin.
For more information check out the books "Killing the Black Body" and "The Color Complex". The psychological affects of colonization and slavery run deep and persist from generation to generation. - antistupid, on 01/13/2009, -0/+4Don't forget the ass implants and collagen injections into their lips
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -3/+7I don't care what people choose to do with their body, but I hate the body modification/cosmetic procedure double standard. If an Asian person gets their eyelids done and a black person gets a nose job they are trying to look white, but a white person can tan themselves 20 shades darker, get lip injections, butt implants and they're just trying to "enhance" themselves.
- inactive, on 01/14/2009, -0/+4Reminds me of "Mirror mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of them all..."
My how times have changed. - CYR1X, on 01/13/2009, -0/+4Why can't we all have a purple skin color?
- brian1625, on 01/14/2009, -0/+4It -appears- to be culture. At one point the white women in England wanted to be lighter. Darker skin meant you worked outside thus devoid of class.
- vuthy, on 01/13/2009, -0/+4Yep. My family hails from Southeast Asian and my mother regularly bleached her skin. It wasn't to look "white" since there really wasn't much exposure to white people where she came from and "looking white" didn't mean anything.
My mother, and many Cambodian women, bleached their skin to make it look lighter because that was a sign of being upper class. Those with darker skin were considered poorer because farmers and peasants labored away under the sun in the fields (therefore getting very dark; we tan quickly and easily) but if your skin was light, you were considered more refined, educated, and cultured, which translated to being beautiful.
The same goes with being fat. Being fat = upper class because food was (and is) so scarce that in order to actually get fat, you must be rich and/or powerful.
I grew up in the States and now live in Los Angeles where it's all about being thin and tanned - talk about cultural differences!
So in Southeast Asia particularly, it's not a matter of racism. In Senegal, where most women are so dark already, I do think there might be other aspects at play but that was a poor article that didn't really go deep in asking the women why they bleached or at least should have asked some of the men if they really preferred lighter skin on their women. - kingmanic, on 01/13/2009, -0/+4It's pre-existing. In Asia and India they have always prefered lighter skin.
- KegBol, on 01/13/2009, -0/+4I once knew an Indonesian woman who wouldn't have her photo taken with her son because he had 'African skin'. Bizarre, but by all accounts, women all over the world were trying to get whiter skin before anyone had seen white people. This is not a race issue, it is just the same difficulty accepting themselves that women have all over the world, exasperated by exposure to white people on tv.
- GiggleStick, on 01/13/2009, -0/+4I didn't want to be the one to have to tell you this, but... Normally the guy bones the chicks. I could draw a picture I suppose. Wait you're not into strap-ons or trannies are you?
- geogeer, on 01/13/2009, -0/+4Cleopatra used to lighten her skin. This is very old indeed. Traditionally lighter skin meant that you weren't doing hard labour out in the fields. Hence the peaches and cream look that was favoured in the British Colonial era. In the western world a deep tan is now favoured, as it indicates that you aren't working hard in some crummy little cubicle but have time to go and lay on the beach.
- Lockhart1, on 01/13/2009, -2/+6Is having white skin worth the side affects like loss of rhythm and inability to jump?
- CoD4, on 01/13/2009, -3/+6you missing out bro
- apetrie, on 01/13/2009, -0/+3Theres really no need to take it there. You don't have to insult "pasty" women to praise the beauty of darker women.
Also, white chicks can have big booties too. Its pretty common in my family of Scottish origin, we like to call it "kilt bum". =P -
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