Against their own kind?! <br> This is funny, because its actually true. I've seen people doing this stuff for a long time now. People from the subcontinent generally tend to have an inferiority complex about their skin color IMO <br> <br> http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/09/india.skin/index.html?eref=edition
If you ever watch indian movies you will never see a dark skinned girl in the movies. It is pretty sad.
<br> I have to disagree. From my experience every single white girl I've ever dated habitually tans so she can look "darker" and more appealing as opposed to having "bland, pale white skin"
My Kramerica business idea: Open the Indian version of Hollywood tan. Full body spray that makes your skin lighter. Call it Bollywood bland. Franchise it. Any Indian ClutchFans have the hookup? Let's do it!
<br> All I'm saying is, it is weird that this is such a big issue among people form the subcontinent. Indians and Pakistanis are more insecure about skin color than any other race I know.
In India, this is a legacy from British occupation. If you read the Mahabharata, an Indian epic thousands of years old, the characters that are described as most beautiful (Krishna, Draupadi, Nakula) are all described as having very dark skin. Krishna actually means "very dark".
the grass is always greener... The question is, when are the companies merely capitalizing on products that appeal to the sensibilities of the masses, and when and where are they crossing the line into promoting, or worse yet, fabricating 'new and improved' reasons for people to feel insecure about themselves.
Why is skin-lightening in India such a big deal? In the United States, black men and women have been doing this for decades.
I think this is it exactly. I am Indian and my girlfriend is white. She always wants to go out and lay in the sun (at the beach or by a pool) but I never go with her (despite her pleas). She wants to tan and get darker and I hate when I spend too much time in the sun because I become really dark (and I hate being that dark).
Wouldn't a good SPF suntan lotion solve your problem? I use it to maintain my creepy Caucasian paleness.
<br> That's one advantage of being dark. I've never once used suntan lotion and the number of times I've been sunburned is still zero!
dude indian people racist against the own kind????? where the heck have you been? we dont even like people from the neighboring villages let alone the color of their skin
