I am half white half Filipino..with a little Native American man of 65 years. I am American born and first visited in 2001 the Philippines. While some women find me attractive..I noticed that in the Philippines my status was raised. I noticed the obsession with skin color amazing. Plain looking women with pale skin were deemed beautiful...whereas technically beautiful women but with dark skin were deemed plain. I know some think that beauty is subjective....it is not totally.
This is really interesting to hear. Culturally, Filipinos are very expressive people, so when they hype some people up and not others, it’s very noticeable. Thank you for sharing this!
Ironically being golden tanned is now the golden ticket in the West. Hell, even my sister is now finally understanding that she no longer has to avoid the sun because of these arbitrary beauty standards she was exposed to when she was younger. Your channel definitely has great potential. It's been something I think that needs to exist, and these conversations needed to happen 20 years ago. I like to think I wasn't affected by these larger cultural societal trends of my upbringing but I'm a 30 something Filipino expat living in the USA, left the home islands when I was 15. So definitely a double whammy of struggling to fit in in two different yet similar societies while being brown. Add in the fact that I'm a gay man and the toxic realities of dating lgbt, and other realities of toxic masculinities (ramped up x 10) and the fetishization of categories in the gay dating world (with terms like rice queen, potato queen, whoo boy, so much for being more than our labels, huh, guys). It's definitely been a big part in shaping who I am today and continue to do so to this day. At the very least, I can def say that I love my skin color so that aspect of society wide shaming me about loving myself has been beaten back at the very least.
@@FA-ft9sq It’s great that you’ve brought up the issue of intersectionality here. Nobody talks about the issue within gay male circles of having your race literally be defining of how you are fetishized by other men.
I’m a black girl but I really enjoyed this video because beauty standards affect so many races especially black and asians, I find I relate to the unrealistic aspects of this complex thankyou for sharing and teaching! 🪷❤️
@@talasofiabrionesTake anything a Latino tells you with a grain of sand. They'll usually be leftards to the max 😅 tik tokers. How they love to mine pity for themselves, behind a false veneer of being "woke" and altruistic 😂
I think the origins are in colonialism alright but it's not neo (new). The first time I became aware of the same problem was when I met a Mexican young woman with lovely Aztec facial features. She thought she wasn't pretty because she didn't look like the former Spanish overlords (and ladies). The Spanish held the power so other people would look (in their minds) like the subordinates. And it's the same problem in the Philippines. It's a bias that is not neo-colonial, but actually quite ancient and passed on unawares. So good on you to tackle the issue, but please drop the "neo" concept as it seems not accurate. Media merely reflect societal biases.
@@papitata Hi thanks for your comment! The ‘neo’ in Neocolonialism does not mean ‘new’ in the literal sense of the word. It’s actually quite the opposite. It refers to the MAINTENANCE of oppressive systems of one historic power over its previous dependent (in this case America over the Philippines). To say that ‘Neo’ implies “new”, insinuates that in this video I have claimed that America has “re-colonized” the Philippines in a political way- which it hasn’t. ‘Neo’ merely refers to the maintenance of Western authority - albeit not in a political sense - in a ‘NEW’ much more subtle, cultural revival of Western authority This therefore makes sense in regard to what I discuss in this video. Beauty standards in the Philippines are still Western-serving. As I mention, the preference for eurocentricity displays a continued hold (cultural rather than political) of Western-imposed standards and ideals. Although America may not be directly in control of the Philippines today, the continued ghostly presence of American power manifests in the Filipino preference for cultural Americanness and Eurocentric beauty standards.
Everything you said is correct! Also Filipinos obsession with Hollywood and beauty pageants is probably two of the most toxic traits we inherited from the west! That we don’t appreciate our own culture and uniqueness..
Right! It’s always about measuring up to OTHER people’s standards instead of making our own. Filipinos are under appreciated even in their own country :((
@@talasofiabriones because we Filipinos are two nice! We clamor for validation from white peoples and others that could give a rats ass about us! It time for us Filipinos to be the dickhead this time! Yes we can afford to be a dickhead ones in a while!
The beauty pageant obsession have always problematic. It is everything you said plus economic realities, being a huge factor. "Beauty" is something you don't have to acquire, buy, develop etc. It's one area where everyone, save for health related "beauty" traits, can literally compete in without having to do anything since every society has roughly equal chances of having symmetrically gifted facial features kids.
this just appeared on my fyp, glad i watched it! this is very informative. you'll be big someday! just keep it up
Are we really free from colonialism in the Philippines?
I am half white half Filipino..with a little Native American man of 65 years. I am American born and first visited in 2001 the Philippines. While some women find me attractive..I noticed that in the Philippines my status was raised. I noticed the obsession with skin color amazing. Plain looking women with pale skin were deemed beautiful...whereas technically beautiful women but with dark skin were deemed plain. I know some think that beauty is subjective....it is not totally.
This is really interesting to hear. Culturally, Filipinos are very expressive people, so when they hype some people up and not others, it’s very noticeable. Thank you for sharing this!
Ironically being golden tanned is now the golden ticket in the West. Hell, even my sister is now finally understanding that she no longer has to avoid the sun because of these arbitrary beauty standards she was exposed to when she was younger.
Your channel definitely has great potential. It's been something I think that needs to exist, and these conversations needed to happen 20 years ago. I like to think I wasn't affected by these larger cultural societal trends of my upbringing but I'm a 30 something Filipino expat living in the USA, left the home islands when I was 15. So definitely a double whammy of struggling to fit in in two different yet similar societies while being brown. Add in the fact that I'm a gay man and the toxic realities of dating lgbt, and other realities of toxic masculinities (ramped up x 10) and the fetishization of categories in the gay dating world (with terms like rice queen, potato queen, whoo boy, so much for being more than our labels, huh, guys). It's definitely been a big part in shaping who I am today and continue to do so to this day. At the very least, I can def say that I love my skin color so that aspect of society wide shaming me about loving myself has been beaten back at the very least.
@@FA-ft9sq It’s great that you’ve brought up the issue of intersectionality here. Nobody talks about the issue within gay male circles of having your race literally be defining of how you are fetishized by other men.
You should put this in other social media platform. If you can make a tagalog version of this video, the better.
I’m a black girl but I really enjoyed this video because beauty standards affect so many races especially black and asians, I find I relate to the unrealistic aspects of this complex thankyou for sharing and teaching! 🪷❤️
By the way you describe Filipinos society it's very similar to Latin Americans society
@@cindykpower Absolutely… Eurocentricity is unfortunately the standard in a lot of places
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Tell it how it is sister! Tell Filipinos the truths!
Unfortunately it’s not just the Philippines it’s mostly all Asian countries and South American
Colorism sucks
@@snow-uq4gx I’d be super interested to hear about what it’s like in other countries too! I think it’s not talked about enough
@talasofiabriones I've been to philipines many times and u can see it on the billboards and tv
@@talasofiabrionesTake anything a Latino tells you with a grain of sand. They'll usually be leftards to the max 😅 tik tokers. How they love to mine pity for themselves, behind a false veneer of being "woke" and altruistic 😂
@@talasofiabrionesBeware of trauma bonders 😂 they always lie
@@timasuna1756 what is a trauma bonder?🤔
I think the origins are in colonialism alright but it's not neo (new). The first time I became aware of the same problem was when I met a Mexican young woman with lovely Aztec facial features. She thought she wasn't pretty because she didn't look like the former Spanish overlords (and ladies). The Spanish held the power so other people would look (in their minds) like the subordinates. And it's the same problem in the Philippines. It's a bias that is not neo-colonial, but actually quite ancient and passed on unawares. So good on you to tackle the issue, but please drop the "neo" concept as it seems not accurate. Media merely reflect societal biases.
@@papitata Hi thanks for your comment!
The ‘neo’ in Neocolonialism does not mean ‘new’ in the literal sense of the word. It’s actually quite the opposite. It refers to the MAINTENANCE of oppressive systems of one historic power over its previous dependent (in this case America over the Philippines). To say that ‘Neo’ implies “new”, insinuates that in this video I have claimed that America has “re-colonized” the Philippines in a political way- which it hasn’t. ‘Neo’ merely refers to the maintenance of Western authority - albeit not in a political sense - in a ‘NEW’ much more subtle, cultural revival of Western authority
This therefore makes sense in regard to what I discuss in this video. Beauty standards in the Philippines are still Western-serving. As I mention, the preference for eurocentricity displays a continued hold (cultural rather than political) of Western-imposed standards and ideals.
Although America may not be directly in control of the Philippines today, the continued ghostly presence of American power manifests in the Filipino preference for cultural Americanness and Eurocentric beauty standards.
Everything you said is correct! Also Filipinos obsession with Hollywood and beauty pageants is probably two of the most toxic traits we inherited from the west! That we don’t appreciate our own culture and uniqueness..
Right! It’s always about measuring up to OTHER people’s standards instead of making our own. Filipinos are under appreciated even in their own country :((
@@talasofiabriones because we Filipinos are two nice! We clamor for validation from white peoples and others that could give a rats ass about us! It time for us Filipinos to be the dickhead this time! Yes we can afford to be a dickhead ones in a while!
The beauty pageant obsession have always problematic. It is everything you said plus economic realities, being a huge factor. "Beauty" is something you don't have to acquire, buy, develop etc. It's one area where everyone, save for health related "beauty" traits, can literally compete in without having to do anything since every society has roughly equal chances of having symmetrically gifted facial features kids.