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What do you think is going to improve whith making your skin whiter? you still will continue disliking yourself and anyone that you consider too dark. best to love being you.
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OP: I ask myself the same question whenever I see the multitude of skin whitening products advertised on television. But at least, this one's funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVS0iwQVBjI
"A quokka is what would happen if there was an anime about kangaroos."
Caucasian people think I'm a pasty freak and East Asians think I'm 'pure' looking. East Asians also consider me to be obese (I have a BMI of 24) and Indian people (well the men anyway) think I'm a goddess. Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder, and there's only one beholder that counts!
Everybody (and it seems even exaggerated here in Asia) has a sense of lacking something, and there will always be some industry or another ready to capitalize on that, be it cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, diet, gyms, self-help, get rich quick schemes or dare I say even some religions. It's the way of advertising in a capitalist economy...it's only our cultural conditioning that makes certain things (for instance skin-whitening) seem ridiculous while others seem normal.
Everybody (and it seems even exaggerated here in Asia) has a sense of lacking something, and there will always be some industry or another ready to capitalize on that, be it cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, diet, gyms, self-help, get rich quick schemes or dare I say even some religions. It's the way of advertising in a capitalist economy...it's only our cultural conditioning that makes certain things (for instance skin-whitening) seem ridiculous while others seem normal.
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Well put!poodlek wrote:Caucasian people think I'm a pasty freak and East Asians think I'm 'pure' looking. East Asians also consider me to be obese (I have a BMI of 24) and Indian people (well the men anyway) think I'm a goddess. Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder, and there's only one beholder that counts!
Everybody (and it seems even exaggerated here in Asia) has a sense of lacking something, and there will always be some industry or another ready to capitalize on that, be it cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, diet, gyms, self-help, get rich quick schemes or dare I say even some religions. It's the way of advertising in a capitalist economy...it's only our cultural conditioning that makes certain things (for instance skin-whitening) seem ridiculous while others seem normal.
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