Beauty is not so important,your personality and Talent are the main things.Cause as the time will pass your beauty will faded away but ur talent will always stay with u
Years of colonialism has led to this, Caribbean's and Africans can identify from Imperialist rule. It's sad because, people find bleaching as a solution, when in hindsight it is the problem. It's like staying you "won't" have any problems after bleaching. I've seen bleaching creams in markets ( btw I'm Ghanaian)
The worst part is how these bollywood actors who some people actually admire support these kind of things instead of taking some serious action against them like how can they not see how traumatizing can it be for those beautiful girls who get insecure and feel ugly being dark skinned i've faced so many comments about my features being attractive and that i can use this and that and fix my skin tone and the worse part is that your own family and relatives are the one bashing you
@Terracotta Kim your whole comment is racist and colourist in itself. And as a religious hindu I can tell you that reasoning for blue skin God's is false
This is a set up. Whatever part of the world we are in we have media telling us that whatever trait we have is not good enough and that they have a product or procedure to make us more desirable. Dark people wanna lighter skin, Light people wanna be dark, the curly haired want straight and the straight haired want curls. It's horrible. We just 'll need to realize there isn't just one way to be beautiful and accept ourselves.
It's easy to comment on these platforms but we all know when someone is to choose between fair skin or dark skin . He or she is gonna choose the former especially boys👍🏽🔥
@@snehakrishnan2419 same girl like I love k dramas and kpop (army) but I gotta say korea is very discriminative towards dark skinned but like our queen hwasa (mamamoo) is 🔥
@gods boyyour a pathetic sad piece of shit . How sad are you with your ownself that you cannot accept the fact that someone is happy the way they are . Your just a waste on this planet . You don't even love yourself you don't even have self respect . This also shows your upbringing and the circle of friends you have . I actually pity you .
What's wrong about feeling comfortable and feeling beautiful with fair skin... If someone feels more powerful more confident in fair skin... Then let them be.... Its not your or society's choice to how a person wants to be look...they feel good in fair skin so what's wrong with it... Idk... Seems like a dumb topic to discuss..🤦♂️🤷♂️
@@rajeshrdrd8036 there is nothing wrong in being confident in fair skin. Every skin tone is beautiful . But that does not give anyone the right to look down or mock or bully people with darker skin tone .
And indian aunties ugh 😑 They are so judgemental .. An aunt came at my home and said " Aloo ka ras lagaya karo gori ho jaoge " I just said that " Aunty main apne rang se khush hu main gori nahi hona chahti " And she was like😒
My science teacher taught me this a few years ago: Those who live near the equator are meant and supposed to be dark. The UV rays are harmful for white skinned people and hence people living near the equator have adopted to it. Stop seeing it as a curse and appreciate what u have.
Hi recently sai pallavi from tollywood declined the offer of an fairness cream ad. We need more celebrities like her who say a big no to this non sense
Not positive but realist Oh yeah 100% but I said Indians specifically cause this is a video about them. I think a lot of minority countries are like this which is really sad but true😕
This problem is here in Africa too. Even with banning of products. This seems to be a complex of all European colonised nations brainwashed to believe that white is right.
@@ThePltsweet yes I think it is all of Asia that is brainwashed. Because in Europe they love being brown and tan, not pale 😂😂 we always want what we can’t have
I just cant understand ! why? i love dark skin...every skin tone is beautiful in their own way...the human race offers a huge range of beauty and diversity ...we should celebrate that
Where are these fair skinned Indians. w hg at about Ghandi. The average Indian is not fair skinned. You mean mixing just like any other race. Why is it the wealthiest ones are still brown. These people looks like mixed European. The typical stereo types are what we see these are mixed and look white
Is no one going to talk about how every hit pop song always have to have racist lyrics like gora gora mukhra , chityian Kalayian, Kala chasma on gora mukhra. Like WTF?
I hope people realize that this video focuses solely on the North Indian perspective, For thousands of years dark skin in the south was seen as beautiful and an indicator of fertility and women hood. It wasn't until the final conquering of the South by the Portuguese and Brits that the colonizer mindset to love white skin over their own was introduced and heavily reinforced. Even now however the skin lightening obsession is far more a northern problem then in the south where the sales of skin lightening cream for men and women are nowhere near as high as in the North. This has to do with the fact southerners weren't as exposed to Conquerors like the Mughals or Persians so they never had an inferiority complex like Northerners had toward light skin which was heavily reinforced during colonialism
This skin color issue can effect relationships also ,I'm little dusky and my boyfriend is fair so his friends used to tell him to leave me because I'm dark , thankfully he loves me the way IAM ,he never considered those suggestions ,here we are completing our 5 years together.
I may not seem an important person but I'm so happy that buzzfeed India not only focuses on humour but the actual problems in our society and is spreading awareness about it . So proud of u all . Keep on going .
I have tan skin and fucking love it because Sunburn is harmful for our skin. But when I go outside or get sun kissed,my skin automatically glows naturally.. I have never used fairness cream
If you don't accept yourself as black fuck you and that fake ass statement. We been smart college does not justify intelligence. Wake your blind ass up.
@@A-Dubs398 demonizing? You may not like dark skin , many of us do. I do not support the use of beauty products to " whiten" ones face. Ridiculous.... Just to show how repressed a culture is, in wanting to do such a thing.
@@cusimilooking4965I never said you can't like dark skin, just stop acting like it's bad for people to like lighter women and Eurocentric features, we can't help it, and we aren't racist or brainwashed. Everyone just has different opinions.
@@A-Dubs398 u missed my point I am also very found of Caucasian beauties. I FIND IS INSANE FOR WOMEN WHO ARE ETHNICALLY NOT CAUCASIAN AND DARK TO USE CHEMICALS TO APPEAR LESS OF WHAT THEY REALLY ARE. NEVER MENTIONED THE TERM RACISM. YOU MUST HAVE A DIRTY CONSCIOUS, DEEP AND EMBEDDED SOMEWHERE. AGAIN NO CHEMICALLY ALTERING PRODUCTS TO APPEAR "LIGHTER". THAT IS MY POINT. BEAUTY COMES IN DIFFERENT RACES: CAUCASIAN, AFRICAN, ASIAN, MESTIZO, YOU NAME IT.
Shivani Narendran There is nothing wrong in anyone's complexion, it is God gifted. And we should respect it. If we can't stop anyone else at least we can stop ourselves from being a part of those stupid conversation about skin complexions.
I really hope this mentality shifts in India! I’m an American living in India and I cannot stress how impractical very fair skin is (especially in places where there is a good amount of heat and sunlight, America included). I can’t be in the sun more than 15 mins without getting a massive sunburn, I have to cover up and wear sunscreen EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Fair skin wrinkles more quickly, acne/imperfections are far more evident on fair skin, and rates of skin cancer are higher in those who have more fair/ sun burn prone skin. Good for buzzfeed for shedding light on this topic, all shades of skin are beautiful!
Apni Bhangra Mutiyaar the crazy thing is when I was growing up rule part of Iowa there was a girl who is this second generation from India she had a really dark skin only girl with dark skin and a all white school everybody thought she was gorgeous too bad her parents were crazy traditional
Kyle Wathen everybody wants what they don’t have! I truly think all shades of skin are beautiful but from purely a practical standpoint ( outside of Europe ) darker skin is truly beneficial
My brother calls me 'kali' or dark skin. He says that look at me m so fairer....than u ......and actually he is....but now I am more prouder about my dark skin and being Kali.
Tell him did i ask you or best thing bout your opinion is that it doesn't matter god also forgot to put brain in you what about that make replies like that he wont make fun again lol🙂
All my dark skinned, light skinned south Asian desi girls... YALL ARE BEAUTIFUL! Beauty is subjective. Love yourselves and that self love will shine through! 😊💕💕
You don't have to be beautiful. Its okay not to be beautiful. Whether it's dark skin or white skin or any other skin for that matter. Loving yourself doesn't necessarily have to be linked with being beautifull. So regardless of whether your are beautifull or not, love yourself for the way you are.
Am happy being dusky. and no one from my family or friends circle has ever discriminated anyone based on skin colour. Sadly my friends have faced racial discrimination even among their own familt and friends. One of my friends is dusky and a brahmin too. Her own family discriminates her. She was worried about it. Am happy about my skin colour. Am happy about the real me. I dont wanna lighten it. I'm unique and beautiful my own way. The person reading this remember what telling now. I'm proud of being the real unfiltered me. You all be proud of ur skin colour and think that u only have that unique skin type in the whole world. *"U R UNIQUE. U R BEAUTIFUL. BROWN OR WHITE U R PRETTY THE WAY U R. DONT LET ANYONE STEAL UR BEAUTY IN HEART"* .
I still remember when i was a kid my mom used to apply fair and lovely to my face every night before i slept. I didn't understand why tho. Few years later when i was old enough i went and i spoke to my mom abt this and told her that im happy with my skin colour and im not going to change it just to please someone else. She was like GO TO HELL. you'll never get married. And i said how the hell do you know that I'll never get married. My mom didn't speak to me for the next 5 days.
Yesss, very true she was also called Krishnaa becuz she was as dark as Krishna. But I thk the representations in movies and tv series where dey choose fair actors for these roles is where d misunderstanding lies.
yes brother and this guy is telling that the rasicm and casticm are related but in real it's not and there are so many dalits who are farier and there are so many high caste Brahmin have darker skin
I think all those celebrities need to start apologizing for endorsing these fairness products. If they could influence people so heavily negatively, maybe their apology could change some minds.
Exactly! Priyanka did say she regretted doing the advert and using whitening products. But pple like deepika and Shah rukh need to stop doing these ads too
Do you know a significant proportion of Indian population is naturally light in colour. It mostly depend on geography and their casts. Indians in northern parts are mostly lighter whereas in southern part are mostly darker. Still skins of all shades are found in Indian in all these parts.
@Blacka Đøn no it's colorism. Someone can be both black and naturally pale as hell but treated differently because they are at the end of the day still a black person. Same goes for an Indian person.
Colorism and racism are two different things. If an Indian woman prefers a white skin, that doesn't means she hates her own people, it just mean she holds fair skin in higher esteem. In the past light skinned people were usually the better off people because those haven't had to work in hard menial jobs like working on fields - so culturally they were conditioned to 'like' light skin.
@@wesornaitit please explain how tf we are all black? What evidence is there? You somehow hold the answers to these questions that no one else does presumably
Well, it-s not like racism is well founded in something different than the color of the skin, at the end both colorism and racism are the same, unless you buy into the "there are different human races" thing
D problem lies when dey are portrayed in movies and tv by FAIR actors. D Ramayana had a fair Ram plus d Mahabharata the series had a fair draupadi. Which is wrong
i will never understand people who obsess over fairness and let down darker skin toned people. i love dusky and dark people, i find them sexy and so beautiful in such a unique way
They are conditioned that way due to the way they were raised, their social environment and the media. I know a girl that wears foundation and powder that is slightly lighter than her original skin tone because she wants to look 1 shade lighter. She's actually admitted this. Sad really.
Not everyone love but yes sadly it's true my aunt wants a "gori chitti pyari" meaning a pale lovely girl although my gf is brown basically and super dark. I myself am white af, some even had the indecency to say I couldn't get a light skinned girl so I choose her which is not true at all cause my ex was a white bitch, but that just shows how much undesirable the society perceives dark skinned girls to be.
YESS!! finally someone talks about this topic! there are still people in these days and even in my family who especially in weddings would compare the skin tone of the bride and the groom and their siblings' tone.....like its 2k18!!! just stop!! who cares about the colour! great job Andre!
My mom is super fair and my dad is dusky,I happened to get my dad's skin tone and every family member I've come across pities me for not being "blessed" with my mom skin's tone
Yup. I've faced that. Luckily, with age, you really do start to become comfortable in your skin. Now I honestly would not give up my nandita das/Padma Laksmi skin tone for anything; I'm not impressed by fair skin either. However I live abroad so it much easier to avoid Indian bigotry - I'm glad that I don't have to face that negativity on a daily basis. I only wish all dusky people can really SEE how sexy their skin truly is - that it is not a lame self affirmation shtick to say dark is beautiful
Boys making fun of girls putting makeup and creams . Oh hello we have to do all these because of you guys. You guys want a fairer bride and thats what make us feel insecure
@@hwfq34fajw9foiffawdiufhuaiwfhw too dark malayalam . Do you have brain??? Excuse me . So directly saying that all malayalees are too dark . Such a stupidity . I am a malayalee i living in Kerala . Hey man come here i will you show whites , blacks and mixed ones here. I told in the comment that men like you are the reason girls go for fair skin . And finally its not malayalam its malayalees . Malayalam is their language.
@@FS-GAMING-F4K He is not saying all dark looking people are malayalees but one who are dark looks like them. Technically he is not wrong. He is just stating his preference. Be chill
I just find it extremely funny that we Indians look down upon dark skinned people, when a lot of our gods and goddesses themselves are so dark. Like Krishna, Kali
Pallavi K true dat. We worship Kali, Durga for destroying evil guys and expect our daughters, sisters to keep quiet and do nothing in the event of harassment.
Good video!This obsession must stop. I get a lot of patients who wish to change their skin colour. The worst part is parents bring along their children asking for fairer skin. Girls as young as 5 years old are made to feel their complexion is dark and are pushed into believing that only fair is beautiful. We have to work towards changing this mindset.
India is not the only country obsessed with fair skin. It's all over the world, Japan, China, Brazil, everywhere. Slavery has had a huge impact on the entire world. Everywhere in the world, people are treated fairer the lighter they are. People use skin lightening creams simply because they want a leg up.
@HausOfCortez The effects of slavery are felt throughout the entire world. Of course there are other factors though. Rihanna is lying, I can tell you that much. Light skin is a huge thing in the Caribbean. There is a bleaching epidemic there. Sure people will day things about your skin color no matter where you are and no matter what your complexion but for her to say that she was picked on is a stretch. Furthermore, Rihanna was never, ever very light skinned. She is the complexion she is now, due to excessive bleaching. Watch her past videos and interviews and you will see the huge difference in her skin color. Skin bleaching is a pandemic phenomenon. The only thing that can change the global perception of a person's worth being tied to their skin color is if we " emancipate ourselves from mental slavery.
HausOfCortez it is not a cultural thing at all. it stems from imperialism, and the mindset that white people are more attractive then we are that’s why light skin is held to a high regard in asian countries. the more caucasian you look, the more “beautiful” you are perceived to be by asians. that’s why you get bonus points for having brown hair instead of “black” and blue, green, or hazel eyes instead of brown. it has EVERYTHING to do with the western world and wanting to be like them lmao gtfo
HausOfCortez i don’t believe that rihanna part even a little bit. the black community, like literally every other colored community suffers from colorism. and it all stems from imperialism and slavery (in the case of the black community). let’s no dismiss what’s actually going on here
@@abhimenon801 Allah is one and nothing like he's creation he has no wife no children he is alone all powerful all knowing all seeing all hearing How is he all knowing you ask the same way he knows how the universe becan for example The big bang Quran 21:30 did the unbelievers not realize that the heavens ie universe and earth were a joined entity and we sepperated them And he also knows the nature of he's creation Such as the expansion of the universe Quran 51:47 and the heavens we constructed in strength and indeed we are its expander So how do you explain this and believe me I've got hundreds more also prophecy that came true And the idols that you worship which you crafted by you're own hands do you they see do they reply if someone wants destroy them do they defend themselves or if the water in a certain land dryed up will the cow bring water from the ground to feed its self?
It’s just the whole Asia, have you seen Chinese people they are white and they make them more white like paint. All skin tone are beautiful, be proud of what god made you.
Am happy being dusky. and no one from my family or friends circle has ever discriminated anyone based on skin colour. Sadly my friends have faced racial discrimination even among their own familt and friends. One of my friends is dusky and a brahmin too. Her own family discriminates her. She was worried about it. Am happy about my skin colour. Am happy about the real me. I dont wanna lighten it. I'm unique and beautiful my own way. The person reading this remember what telling now. I'm proud of being the real unfiltered me. You all be proud of ur skin colour and think that u only have that unique skin type in the whole world. *"U R UNIQUE. U R BEAUTIFUL. BROWN OR WHITE U R PRETTY THE WAY U R. DONT LET ANYONE STEAL UR BEAUTY IN HEART"* . Being brown skinned is a fortunate thing. The westerners are tryna get brown skin. Be proud brown girls. We are blessed with melanin. When v age v dont get wrinkles and skin disease more when compared with white tone skinned ppl. They r having melanin disorder tbh
Well it all because of one simple reason. People with high paying jobs don't have to go out in the sun much, thus they have fair skin. Because of this fair skin is usually associated with wealth and is valued more. Wealth means high status (in ancient times ruler, in modern times billionare) and people dream about it.
same in Bangladesh too :( my mother is way lighter than me so whenever I met my mom's friends or my relatives whom I never met before,they always say why i am not fair like my mom -_- this really pisses me and my mom off
FZ Ramisa Same I'm also from Bangladesh. I'm the darkest in my family and ppl are like, I'm darker than my mom and sister. These people have to get their heads out of their rectum -_-
FZ Ramisa listen girl . I relate to you. I’ll tell you what , next time straight up when they ask you or tell you anything regarding skin colour sidha ask them ki what’s wrong with my skin colour bitchass hag aunty it’s fucking beautiful. Just tell them
Abhipsa Hota you know mam mentality like this is very bad how you can say India can never change . Sure it will take longer time than most of the countries but with the course of time i am sure it will change
Mustafa Alam woah calm down you were very mean by referring India like that you are not even Indian citizen how could you say that . India will become superpower in upcoming years
You know you lost your self confidence from childhood when you were being compared with your sister/brother who has fair skin :( This happened with many of us.... but now we know that all colours are beautiful! ♡
"No one is born ugly we are just born in a judgemental society" - Kim Namjoon TW// The replys are full of toxic butthurt haters trying to justify why they hate someone they haven't met or know personally 🙂
Vrysed hey India is diverse in India you have caste system that’s the reason there is diversity in skin color .In India those who have more of ancestral North Indian DNA in them are fair skinned same goes for south of India .Indian is not an race and the population is not homogeneous you would find pale ,light brown and dark brown skin colour here . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_classification_of_Indian_Americans This above is a link to why indians are not racially classified in USA it’s because of their diversity in skin colour .
İroş İkboş indian is not an race and most of the people here don’t have indigenous origins .Some of us have more of aryan roots while some have Dravidian you would find Indians who look Mongolian also in north east .India is known to be the most diverse country . But saying indian is race is false cause like turkish indian is not an race .Indian is a nationality which has more than 400 ethnic groups . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_classification_of_Indian_Americans Indians are not racially classified because of the diversity in skin color .
Nice video! In the UK dark skin is considered more attractive and we are constantly obsessed with getting tanned in the sun or using self tanning treatments! I personally think that men with brown skin are much more attractive than men with white skin. ☺️
Londonki_Lali one of my Brazilian friend says the same . She also wants brown skin like princess jasmine but she is white . I guess we humans are not happy what we got and always want things that we don't or can't have
best example is deepika padukone alone... when was beautifully dusky she wasn't given good roles and offers but once she turned fair she started getting the best
Wait a min. 3:16 is not entirely true. Many superior Indian gods such as Shiva, Vishnu, Krishna, Kali maa are dark skinned and worshipped in India. The irony is even when we worship those gods, people are still racist to their own dark skinned friends and families.
+Shruti Vishnu Patil Because Buzzfeed is sponsored and run by ideological Marxists/leftists who believe that all the problems of India are due to Hinduism. This video would have been a good video if they left out the "Aryan"-Hinduism nonsense, but this is Buzzfeed. Destroying Hindu culture by subtly demonizing it for all the problems of India is the ultimate purpose.
they portray them as blue skins instead of dark brown skin to avoid feeling ashamed of their gods. at many instances, shiva even gets white skins in it's portraits.
I am from Germany, and im white as toast haha, i want to be darker like i always are in the sun. All in all we all want what we dont have. I should Acceptance that im a white toast because many People want it. I should Accept the Way i am. And everybody who is reading this, youre beautiful no matter which colour your skin has!
@Bidu Bidu And if we said brown or black skin is boring, we would be called racist. Funny how it's okay for non-whites to say "white skin is boring" lol.
@@vijaynair2403 They are referring to the point in the video that historically powerful characters were fair skin, when in reality it's just modern depiction of mythological characters that practise this.
in indian cartoons and serials, they are blue. krishna, shiv, kali are blue, lol like black is o offensive to the culture that they make the characters blue.
Thank you Andre. We Indians really need this. India needs to change. By posting this kind of videos, you're reaching a large population. Thanks for breaking past the funny videos of BuzzFeed and highlighting some important issues. Love your fun videos as well!
I have a question, unfortunately it going to take awhile for me to get there. So, I'm an African American woman, who's "mostly" consider neither light skin or dark skin in the black community. "Mostly" because sometime my skin is describe as "light to medium" toned by other black people. I had a female friend whose is Indian (we unfortunately lost contact). Once when we were having lunch, she commented that her mom told her that she was getting too dark and that she needed to bleach her skin. I was shocked and confused. Plus, this was the first time I heard of skin bleaching in Asian cultures (but, I knew about it in black cultures (of course), and Latina/Hispanic cultures). Along with other things, I was also confused about her thinking she was dark skin. I was way darker than her and I'm not consider dark skinned. I expressed that there is nothing wrong with her skin tone, and I pointed out that she was not dark skinned. She told me that in Indian culture she considered dark skin. (We talked about it some more, but my experience as a African American women was not helpful to her experience as an Indian woman.) So, my question is, what is the criteria for light skin (or "fair" as I read in many comments) and dark skin in Indian culture? In black culture, it was the paper brown bag test. :( In Latin and Hispanic cultures, it just having native DNA/roots (example: Mayans, Incas, Aztecs) and black DNA/roots (Afro-Latina which is associated with slavery) or having non-European facial features. But, what constitutes as dark skin and light skin in India? If this question makes you feel uncomfortable, please don't answer. I was just curious about Indian culture as I was about mine and Latina/Hispanic culture. P.S. To any black (Afro) readers of this comment, when I stated that I'm not considered light skin or dark skin in African American (or Black culture period), it's just for reference of my perspective and to give insight of my friend's skin tone. I don't think skin tone should matter in any culture!
Lolo Smith Girl stop writing a novel and watch this video again. In India having brown skin you are considered dark skin. Having pale skin, you are considered light skin. The video was clear on that. Miss America of Indian descent is a clear example of that. Colorism within African communities can not be compared to colorism within Indian communities, and you can also not compare that to colorism in Asian communities.
C Will if you consider my comment a novel, than I feel sorry for your academic future. Secondly, I watched the video. All 8 minutes and 3 seconds of it, and I understood it extremely well. But sweetie, 8 minutes and 3 seconds cannot fully explain centuries of India's colorism history. If nothing else, understand that. Pro tip: *first* fully read someone else comment, *then* understand said person's comment, and then *lastly,* _(only after the first two steps have been followed),_ and only if it is necessary, comment to said comment. I know that colorism is different in Asian cultures vs African American cultures. I stated that several times, so I don't need you to repeat something that I already acknowledge. I also stated that her experience was different from my experience so I could not fully help her when she was upset (all of this is in my comment; which you apparently find too long). What I wanted was a clearer understanding of what constitutes as dark skin in India. Because some of the women were not pale in the video, they were just a lighter shade of brown. There has to be a threshold between pale and dark and I wanted to know what it is in India. (In my "novel," I stated that it is the paper bag test). And I just wanted to understands India's threshold for pale and dark. As a black women, I think of pale skin it is mostly associated with white culture, so I was seeking a better understanding of Indian culture perspective of what pale mean. C Will, I was not rude and mean. I am only trying to learn about someone else's culture. (And as I did when I wanted to learn more about it in Latin and Hispanic culture). And if you have a problem with that, then you have a problem with that. And if you don't have the answer to my comment then move on because I truly was not asking you then. But stop making assumption and thinking you are clever. Because I am not interested in your ego. I only wanted to learn _more_ about someone else's culture. And I am trying to do so with consideration to the individuals in that culture. This conversation could be hard and uncomfortable for some people and I understand that. Nothing more, nothing less! C Will, have a good day!!!!
@lolo Smith In India any skin color not matching the skin tone of a "white" American or an European is considered dark, that's the reason even fairest of the fair are obsessed with it and unfortunately grooms in India want to seek the "fairest" bride for themselves. It's all because of the notion that people believe "fairskin" to be attractive and beautiful.
I hope people realize that this video focuses solely on the North Indian perspective, For thousands of years dark skin in the south was seen as beautiful and an indicator of fertility and women hood. It wasn't until the final conquering of the South by the Portuguese and Brits that the colonizer mindset to love white skin over their own was introduced and heavily reinforced. Even now however the skin lightening obsession is far more a northern problem then in the south where the sales of skin lightening cream for men and women are nowhere near as high as in the North. This has to do with the fact southerners weren't as exposed to Conquerors like the Mughals or Persians so they never had an inferiority complex like Northerners had toward light skin which was heavily reinforced during colonialism
I'm a south indian born and brought up in North India actually north Indians are more obsessed with fair than south indians, my classmates some time call me Kali(black) and tease but south indians are so good they never commented on my skin tone
Are sister...atleast we r blessed with better features ❤ ...and wts the point of being fair or white when you dont even know who u r and wt u want in ur life..😏...just carry ur life..no need to go for modifications but just enhance the beauty u were born with..and taaaddaaa 😘...a confident, kind and smart women is the one who can rule..
Now u guys r all just having a go at north indians, we’re meant to be tackling the issue of racism together not opposing parts of our own country and taking sides. l. Here in Australia, so many Malayali friends I have r absolutely obsessed with their skin tones, I quote from one of them, "Even if I die from bleaching my skin, I'll be happy that I died white" and no I'm not joking. Cause I grew up in Australia, I got pretty sunburnt and because of the I'm a lot darker than the rest of my family and friends in India (punjab), and none of them make fun of my skin tone. So just stop.
It's definitely true for actors and models, it's legit stopping darker skinned actors from getting jobs... do you have any other sources about any other professions? We need to bring it to the attention of the masses
I just don't think so that " India has a long way to go to end it's obsession with fair skin" because India doesn't even acknowledge this as a matter of concern. I'm dark skinned too and I just feel that this prejudice of dark skinned-light skinned has found its way to reasoning , i.e. , if you're unable to do something, it's because you're dark, or if u don't have anyone in your life it's probably because you have more melanin inside you than more of " good personality". I see fair people calling other dark skinned people names, unapologetically. They don't mind if u tell them that they are 'racist', they will admit it themselves blatantly. India is not even close to a struggle. It needs a personality makeover. India needs to know that dark people's skin don't have mud clogged inside their pores.
When I was younger, I used to watch a lot of tv. They had a lot of fairness creams ads, and I got convinced that fair and lovely cream was something I needed. Luckily, my parents said no, and I am glad that my parents said that, because now, I feel that my skin is unique. I’m me!
Same with my parents. They are happy with what skin colour i have. They never discriminate anyone based on skin colour. They never try to make my skin tone fairer. Blessed to have them
Am happy being dusky. and no one from my family or friends circle has ever discriminated anyone based on skin colour. Sadly my friends have faced racial discrimination even among their own familt and friends. One of my friends is dusky and a brahmin too. Her own family discriminates her. She was worried about it. Am happy about my skin colour. Am happy about the real me. I dont wanna lighten it. I'm unique and beautiful my own way. The person reading this remember what telling now. I'm proud of being the real unfiltered me. You all be proud of ur skin colour and think that u only have that unique skin type in the whole world. *"U R UNIQUE. U R BEAUTIFUL. BROWN OR WHITE U R PRETTY THE WAY U R. DONT LET ANYONE STEAL UR BEAUTY IN HEART"* . Being brown skinned is a fortunate thing. The westerners are tryna get brown skin. Be proud brown girls. We are blessed with melanin. When v age v dont get wrinkles and skin disease more when compared with white tone skinned ppl. They r having melanin disorder tbh
I am a dark skinned south indian.... proud of my skin tone, the skin tone of my ancestors, the sons of this soil... who laid their lives down to protect my land, language and culture...... not a mixed race person.... 😉 😊👍 👍 👍
I heard from one Indian classmate in college that (no joke) the darker skin tones were a result of the Islamic Conquests. Nevermind that initially the Ghaznavid Turk and Mughals (who were sort of a mix of Mongol, Turk, and Persian descent) would conquer India after the 8th century and were markedly lighter skinned than the native population. Probably even lighter skinned than the original Aryan conquerors. So in actuality, the Islamic conquests actually led to the lightening of some native population skin tones, though probably negligibly.
I'm mexican american with a light skinned mom and dark skinned dad. My skin color is just right in between light and dark skin. In the summertime, I tan so easily and in the wintertime my skin turns lighter. Darker skin people actually are blessed because the melanin in your skin protects your skin from the harsh sun rays that can damage your skin. So, that means that darker skin doesn't wrinkle that easily. Whereas, the lighter your skin color, the more wrinkles you will get if you don't protect your skin from the sun.
That's absolutely a true fact ! Melanin is a very important pigment for us.. and bcoz of different geography... humans evolved with their respective colour ! Western areas are cold and need more sunlight absorption hence they hv less melanin (as it reflects sunlight). While in tropical region like India we hv moderate temperature and hence all types of skin tone! And I don't think that this biological process has anything to do with an adjective called *"Beautiful"* !
Im mexican american too with a light skinned mom and a dark skinned dad and I got a medium skin tone I'm darker than my mom but lighter than my dad and I love my skin tone. I take pictures in the sun and it gives me a pretty glowy look. Their is nothing wrong with being dark or light just got to accept themselves
"Fair", in the context of beauty, means equal and balanced which applies to all regardless of skin color, but here, Its other meaning implies having a skin color naturally worthy of blessed fair treatment while a darker colored skin is naturally deserving of unfair treatment. We ahould stop using the word "fair" to describe skin color.
Boyyy I'd rather be brown and have smooth and shiny skin rather than be fair and unlovely with crusty ass moon-crater skin. I can't believe it's 2018 and people still have these ideologies ugh.
not all brown people have perfect smooth skin, they can just have normal acne-prone skin with scars and marks as well,a and that should be considered alright as well.
bellmy balke Yes of course. Skin can't be perfect. It was just my opinion on what I consider ideal skin for myself. We should also not forget that Indian/brown skin is very prone to hyper pigmentation
But then again what is “nice features” what YOU would consider a nice feature may not be a nice feature for me , I think everyone should love and celebrate the way they were created
Its seen everywhere that people are obsessed with any feature that's exotic to that mainland. In india people are obsessed with fair skin while in west people are obsessed with tanned dusky skin. Natural features are embraced by very few people. 🙂 Time to crackdown these advertising agencies and brands which promotes insecurity among indians regarding their natural features. 😕
Rajeev Singh When Indians bleach, they literally want to be as pale as possible. When white people tan, they go for a slightly darker look (one that can typically be achieved naturally by going in the sun). They don’t try to be as dark as possible. I don’t think it’s that same thing.
My mum was also subjected to colorism in her childhood just because she was dark skinned. That shaken her self esteem greatly. So much that even now she can't see herself as a beautiful woman that she is. Trust me my mum looked like a model in her 20s. To my dad she's the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen. I don't know why we treat dusky people like a piece of crap.
Although this video is very elaborate and well put forth, I think it misrepresented the hindu mythology part. There are so many gods, goddesses and demons of various skin colors. Like Kali who is very dark skinned is worshipped. Vishnu is dark skinned and that's many of his reincarnations are also dark skinned like Ram or Krishna. Literally the meaning of 'Krishna' is black in Sanskrit. On the other hand Raavana is fair skinned.
It's all pyschology man....the regular working class in America don't go on holidays and beaches whereas the privileged do...so catching a tan is an indicator of prosperity in your case whereas in our case it's the complete opposite...the privileged ones don't catch a tan...btw don't mistake the Indian obsession with fair as white skin obsession..it's basically skin with no tanning...
Light skin is preferred all across the world. In africans, latinos, east asia (google pictures of Koreans using masks on beach), the middle east. Even in the now-tanning-obsessed west, pale skin was the standard for centuries. Sucks, but true. It's not just colonialism, or else 'fair maidens' wouldn't be idolized in old English poetry etc either. In this kind of environment, if you're darker, you've got to find ways to love yourself. Black is beautiful movement from the 60s and 70s is probably the most empowering, and then we have the current day dark skinned instagrammers and makeup artists who are showing how it's just a different skin color and how beautiful it can be if just embraced and taken care of rather than rejected and destroyed.
Are you suggesting that poets wrote poetry about fair maidens specifically to justify the colonial adventures of their governments and not about their crushes etc? What's next? Was the chalk white makeup of Europe in 16 and 1700s specifically aimed to make Asians and Africans living thousands of miles away feel bad about their dark skins and not because it was sought after by Europeans themselves?
Wotcher Humans are excessively primitive. It’s not surprising many would be drawn to the aesthetic of pale skin, despite it being far less useful (and beautiful, in my opinion) than dark skin. Just like we got over our initial beliefs that the earth is flat and the sun revolves around us, we’ll abandon the notion that pale skin is better than darker skin. Many of us already have. I’d die if my skin was paler :(
Pale skin was never desired in Africa pre-colonialism. In Africa having pale skin was associated with being a fucking witch and demon! Where are you getting your information that we desired pale skin before you pales landed on our shores? Even in my country Ethiopia, to this day pale skin is disliked and associated being a witch. Africans have always loved our dark skin, medium skin, and light skin tones. It wasn't until Europeans came and shoved your pale, uncolored, no melanin skin down our throat that views began to change. In parts of Tanzania albino kids are killed to this day. Don't flatter yourself, we have never liked your skin color.
Growing up in the U.S. , I equated the word “fair” with “beautiful” because of context in fairytales. I had no idea it meant “light-skinned.” I mean, all the princesses were usually Caucasian anyway, so it’s not like that really differentiated them from each other or anybody else, except maybe for “Snow White.”
My boyfriend is Pakistani and I’m white and he always says that he wishes his skin was white yet I couldn’t see why because I find his complexion so beautiful and I want my skin to be darker. I had no idea why he thought white looked better until I started looking into this topic. Dark skin is so beautiful.
As a dark skinned black woman, I 100% feel the pain of my indian sisters.
@Neha Shah I know about that too girl. My lighter skinned cousins used to turn off the lights and pretend they couldn't see me. Like come on bro 😒
@Neha Shah True.
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Beauty is not so important,your personality and Talent are the main things.Cause as the time will pass your beauty will faded away but ur talent will always stay with u
Years of colonialism has led to this, Caribbean's and Africans can identify from Imperialist rule. It's sad because, people find bleaching as a solution, when in hindsight it is the problem. It's like staying you "won't" have any problems after bleaching. I've seen bleaching creams in markets ( btw I'm Ghanaian)
- *Why is India so obsessed with fair skin*
Me *BOLLYWOOD*
Not to mention post traumatic slave syndrome from there British overlords
Ajay Devgan and nana pataker is joke to you
The worst part is how these bollywood actors who some people actually admire support these kind of things instead of taking some serious action against them like how can they not see how traumatizing can it be for those beautiful girls who get insecure and feel ugly being dark skinned i've faced so many comments about my features being attractive and that i can use this and that and fix my skin tone and the worse part is that your own family and relatives are the one bashing you
Everyone is racist in India.
Including my seniors, classmates and class teachers
which in turn compels the people
And fair skinned people in the Western World want to have darker skin. What a twisted world it is.
@Terracotta Kim your whole comment is racist and colourist in itself.
And as a religious hindu I can tell you that reasoning for blue skin God's is false
Terracotta Kim other races besides white people could have white skin...
And some dark skinned bleach their skin which makes them a risk for less pigment diseases
They are even.willing to rik health and life foŕ it.
This is a set up. Whatever part of the world we are in we have media telling us that whatever trait we have is not good enough and that they have a product or procedure to make us more desirable. Dark people wanna lighter skin, Light people wanna be dark, the curly haired want straight and the straight haired want curls. It's horrible. We just 'll need to realize there isn't just one way to be beautiful and accept ourselves.
Even my camera is racist, it made me one tone fairer. Why ?
Are you using Mi or Oppo Vivo Phone ?
Because my Samsung phone's camera makes me one tone darker 😂
@@user-qy8zi8hq4v 😂😂😂😂
@@user-qy8zi8hq4v so what??
@@anubheetharwan3890 Humour naam ki bhi ek chiz hoti hai bhai
@@user-qy8zi8hq4v wait...i have a samsung phone and it makes me one shade lighter unnecessarily😂😂(and without any filters)
Healthy skin is all that matters... Women with confidence r most beautiful 💖
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It's easy to comment on these platforms but we all know when someone is to choose between fair skin or dark skin . He or she is gonna choose the former especially boys👍🏽🔥
And that my friends,is why us Melanin babies never have skin problems🥰
Stop healthy skin too.people with acne, blemishes, eczema go for such.
Honestly it’s not only India but Asia in general.
exactly
yeah
most asian esp east and southeast born in white skin, use this product to recover our skin from sunburnt because tropical country
@@snehakrishnan2419 same girl like I love k dramas and kpop (army) but I gotta say korea is very discriminative towards dark skinned but like our queen hwasa (mamamoo) is 🔥
@@loloki359 Ikr
Queen hwasa is teh best
I am an Indian
I am a dark colored girl
But I am proud of it.
@gods boyyour a pathetic sad piece of shit . How sad are you with your ownself that you cannot accept the fact that someone is happy the way they are . Your just a waste on this planet . You don't even love yourself you don't even have self respect . This also shows your upbringing and the circle of friends you have . I actually pity you .
Yes u shud always be proud of ur natural complexion..
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What's wrong about feeling comfortable and feeling beautiful with fair skin... If someone feels more powerful more confident in fair skin... Then let them be.... Its not your or society's choice to how a person wants to be look...they feel good in fair skin so what's wrong with it... Idk... Seems like a dumb topic to discuss..🤦♂️🤷♂️
@@rajeshrdrd8036 there is nothing wrong in being confident in fair skin. Every skin tone is beautiful . But that does not give anyone the right to look down or mock or bully people with darker skin tone .
hey girl as an medium brown indian guy, i feel like im getting more and more attracted towards dark skin girls
Since we want fair skin here and the western world wants darker skin
It shows the only thing we all have in common is low self esteem
This comment deserves more likes
Yo you stole this line from Lilly singh in little late with Lilly singh
That shows human are never satisfied ✊😌
As a fair white girl who tries every trick in the book to appear more dark I agree with you
Yes! Especially in the US and Europe so many people are so into the tanning it almost looks like brown face 🤯
Indian girls : so , how much you wanna judge us ?
Indian aunties : yes.
@Manika hi army
And indian aunties ugh 😑
They are so judgemental .. An aunt came at my home and said " Aloo ka ras lagaya karo gori ho jaoge "
I just said that " Aunty main apne rang se khush hu main gori nahi hona chahti "
And she was like😒
@@babitakhurana5632 damn. Meanwhile us Brits want to have exotic tanned skin 😔. Everyone has insecurities nowadays
I freaking them them so much 🙄
@@screechingalgae8876 what?
My science teacher taught me this a few years ago:
Those who live near the equator are meant and supposed to be dark. The UV rays are harmful for white skinned people and hence people living near the equator have adopted to it. Stop seeing it as a curse and appreciate what u have.
I see you everywhere. 😂
Armyyy 😃💜
Army💜💜
UV rays are hurtful to both dark and fair skin,dark skin also needs sun cream
@@ngozichukwukere3219 you need vitamin d more than sunscreen
Hi recently sai pallavi from tollywood declined the offer of an fairness cream ad. We need more celebrities like her who say a big no to this non sense
Even kangna ranaut has done the same
@@barnalighosh333 sushanth singh also
Even Sushant did the same
@@barnalighosh333 Boro plus was a joke?
@@sandrasaji4677 Rani mukerji has never done fairness cream ads
Indians’ obsession with fair skin is actually scary
And Pakistan
It's not just indians sis .... The sad truth is that all of Asia wants to be fair ... They r just not taught to be happy in their own skin
Not positive but realist Oh yeah 100% but I said Indians specifically cause this is a video about them. I think a lot of minority countries are like this which is really sad but true😕
This problem is here in Africa too. Even with banning of products. This seems to be a complex of all European colonised nations brainwashed to believe that white is right.
@@ThePltsweet yes I think it is all of Asia that is brainwashed. Because in Europe they love being brown and tan, not pale 😂😂 we always want what we can’t have
Be like Panda🐼
He is black
He is white
He is Asian
so cute
Kumfu panda 🐼
And super lazy
Well said😂😂😂😂
No be like Kung Fu Panda😛
fair and lovely has lowkey become a meme in my house
Same
Excuse me! Did you take my name?
LOKI LAUFEYSON haha
LOKI LAUFEYSON 😂😂😂😝😝
LOKI LAUFEYSON 😂😂 LMAO
I just cant understand ! why? i love dark skin...every skin tone is beautiful in their own way...the human race offers a huge range of beauty and diversity
...we should celebrate that
isa dakosta yes it beautiful until you can't find foundation cause your not dark enough nor are you light enough.
Idk India has a LONG way to go.
@@ankita7342 yes u r right 'cause am an Indian
Where are these fair skinned Indians. w hg at about Ghandi. The average Indian is not fair skinned. You mean mixing just like any other race. Why is it the wealthiest ones are still brown. These people looks like mixed European. The typical stereo types are what we see these are mixed and look white
Wow you're beautiful
Is no one going to talk about how every hit pop song always have to have racist lyrics like gora gora mukhra , chityian Kalayian, Kala chasma on gora mukhra. Like WTF?
Yeah😡😡😡😡
@Depressed Introvert relatable
And the recent: Beyonce sharma jaegi -_-
I remembere there is a song called sawli si Ek ladki from mujhse dosti karoge, it's damn underrated
There is also songs like
Rang saavla hua baavara
Ladki beautiful kar gayi chill song
Brown is Beautiful
YAAA
Ikr! 😊
Aishwarya Net.... Brown is chocolatey
I hope people realize that this video focuses solely on the North Indian perspective, For thousands of years dark skin in the south was seen as beautiful and an indicator of fertility and women hood. It wasn't until the final conquering of the South by the Portuguese and Brits that the colonizer mindset to love white skin over their own was introduced and heavily reinforced. Even now however the skin lightening obsession is far more a northern problem then in the south where the sales of skin lightening cream for men and women are nowhere near as high as in the North. This has to do with the fact southerners weren't as exposed to Conquerors like the Mughals or Persians so they never had an inferiority complex like Northerners had toward light skin which was heavily reinforced during colonialism
black
The biggest irony is I got a fairness cream ad on this video
Does it work?
This skin color issue can effect relationships also ,I'm little dusky and my boyfriend is fair so his friends used to tell him to leave me because I'm dark , thankfully he loves me the way IAM ,he never considered those suggestions ,here we are completing our 5 years together.
wow..😍 congrats dear.
mahila ravi thanks 😊
naveena nainas 💟👏💏
naveena nainas Happy for you ☺️
naveena nainas awww love it😍😍😍😍😍 and congo on hitting 5 yr.
Draupadi and Krishna were of darker skin but considered the most beautiful woman/man of their times (in Mahabharat) ..
Yeah bro, he is lying about our culture
Draupadi was dark ?
@@Abc-fk6gm yes....therefore, one of her name was also Krishna
But i dont know why they repersent them in blue colour.?....
@@mr.l2993 He is represented as blue as there is blue-black skin tone. So Blue pretty much means Krishna has black skin.
I may not seem an important person but I'm so happy that buzzfeed India not only focuses on humour but the actual problems in our society and is spreading awareness about it . So proud of u all . Keep on going .
Ayush Rajput Agreed
Ayush Rajput exactly
Ayush rajput exactly what I was thinking
I have tan skin and fucking love it because Sunburn is harmful for our skin. But when I go outside or get sun kissed,my skin automatically glows naturally.. I have never used fairness cream
Omg tan skin is beautiful😍
If you don't accept yourself as black fuck you and that fake ass statement. We been smart college does not justify intelligence. Wake your blind ass up.
Exactly!
The sun loves you, you are very lucky because without it we all would perish. Nature chose you to protect, be proud of your complexion.
You go girl, rock that skin
Why are these creams even legal now. It's 2019. Come on.
Changing children sex, gay marriage and killing healthy babies in the womb are also legal... 2019 is so sad.
Ikr just like fake tans
@@hhhhoooojdjd there absolutely is nothing wrong with changing sex or gay marriage ....
Sabrinita Life More sad that people like you exist. Nothing wrong with abortion, changing gender, or gay marriage.
@@clementine6428 People like them give me hope in humanity.
Indians:wants to be fair
Western world: blackfishing
Ur dp sent me. 💀
@@Jaya-22 thanks😑
@I want Jhope to step on my throat yeah lol....
I love your dp 😘😘
@@kritikamalikfanpage1033 love yours too😉
Lol
If they only new how beautiful dark women are.
@The Truth you must be one sick, and I mean one sick mental individual.
Every one has different opinions. Not every one likes dark skin, stop demonizing people like that.
@@A-Dubs398 demonizing? You may not like dark skin , many of us do. I do not support the use of beauty products to " whiten" ones face. Ridiculous.... Just to show how repressed a culture is, in wanting to do such a thing.
@@cusimilooking4965I never said you can't like dark skin, just stop acting like it's bad for people to like lighter women and Eurocentric features, we can't help it, and we aren't racist or brainwashed. Everyone just has different opinions.
@@A-Dubs398 u missed my point I am also very found of Caucasian beauties. I FIND IS INSANE FOR WOMEN WHO ARE ETHNICALLY NOT CAUCASIAN AND DARK TO USE CHEMICALS TO APPEAR LESS OF WHAT THEY REALLY ARE.
NEVER MENTIONED THE TERM RACISM. YOU MUST HAVE A DIRTY CONSCIOUS, DEEP AND EMBEDDED SOMEWHERE.
AGAIN NO CHEMICALLY ALTERING PRODUCTS TO APPEAR "LIGHTER". THAT IS MY POINT.
BEAUTY COMES IN DIFFERENT RACES: CAUCASIAN, AFRICAN, ASIAN, MESTIZO, YOU NAME IT.
All shades are beautiful! Why so discrimination with skin complexions ?!
Gitanjali Shukla that's because prejudice towards fairskined people doesn't really exist. Does it now?
Gitanjali Shukla what can we do?
Shubhanjali Shukla nothing can be done
People hv to learn to accept themselves
Shivani Narendran There is nothing wrong in anyone's complexion, it is God gifted. And we should respect it. If we can't stop anyone else at least we can stop ourselves from being a part of those stupid conversation about skin complexions.
That is literally explained in the video. Watch it.
I really hope this mentality shifts in India! I’m an American living in India and I cannot stress how impractical very fair skin is (especially in places where there is a good amount of heat and sunlight, America included). I can’t be in the sun more than 15 mins without getting a massive sunburn, I have to cover up and wear sunscreen EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Fair skin wrinkles more quickly, acne/imperfections are far more evident on fair skin, and rates of skin cancer are higher in those who have more fair/ sun burn prone skin. Good for buzzfeed for shedding light on this topic, all shades of skin are beautiful!
Apni Bhangra Mutiyaar 💖I love how all the comments are positive on this video 😍💖
I love this comment you seem very wise. Lots of love 💗💕
Fuck india
Apni Bhangra Mutiyaar the crazy thing is when I was growing up rule part of Iowa there was a girl who is this second generation from India she had a really dark skin only girl with dark skin and a all white school everybody thought she was gorgeous too bad her parents were crazy traditional
Kyle Wathen everybody wants what they don’t have! I truly think all shades of skin are beautiful but from purely a practical standpoint ( outside of Europe ) darker skin is truly beneficial
My brother calls me 'kali' or dark skin. He says that look at me m so fairer....than u ......and actually he is....but now I am more prouder about my dark skin and being Kali.
Really....my uncle did same....everytime he calls me 'kali' as he is fair...
@@unheardunknownfacts3514 tell him to f*ck off because no one cares about his opinion.
@Rozx Sorry sister from all brothers and uncles
pls educate him about all this, im sure he'll understand. being dark skinned isn't a bad thing, it's beautiful and gorgeous
Tell him did i ask you or best thing bout your opinion is that it doesn't matter god also forgot to put brain in you what about that make replies like that he wont make fun again lol🙂
All my dark skinned, light skinned south Asian desi girls... YALL ARE BEAUTIFUL! Beauty is subjective. Love yourselves and that self love will shine through! 😊💕💕
Well said!
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You don't have to be beautiful.
Its okay not to be beautiful. Whether it's dark skin or white skin or any other skin for that matter.
Loving yourself doesn't necessarily have to be linked with being beautifull.
So regardless of whether your are beautifull or not, love yourself for the way you are.
Am happy being dusky. and no one from my family or friends circle has ever discriminated anyone based on skin colour. Sadly my friends have faced racial discrimination even among their own familt and friends. One of my friends is dusky and a brahmin too. Her own family discriminates her. She was worried about it. Am happy about my skin colour. Am happy about the real me. I dont wanna lighten it. I'm unique and beautiful my own way. The person reading this remember what telling now. I'm proud of being the real unfiltered me. You all be proud of ur skin colour and think that u only have that unique skin type in the whole world. *"U R UNIQUE. U R BEAUTIFUL. BROWN OR WHITE U R PRETTY THE WAY U R. DONT LET ANYONE STEAL UR BEAUTY IN HEART"* .
I still remember when i was a kid my mom used to apply fair and lovely to my face every night before i slept. I didn't understand why tho. Few years later when i was old enough i went and i spoke to my mom abt this and told her that im happy with my skin colour and im not going to change it just to please someone else. She was like GO TO HELL. you'll never get married. And i said how the hell do you know that I'll never get married. My mom didn't speak to me for the next 5 days.
So sad 😫
You are loved
God gave you this skin tone this beautiful Indian skin tone you should be proud of yourself because I know that and what kind of mother is she
Because of that?
She is under societies pressure too. It's sad though. The only way out is trying to explain this to them.
I would rather have a clear healthy skin then a fair one🤦🏻♀️
Yes but I don't have clear healthy skin also
Yess.. I'm fair but my skin isn't super healthy. Healthy skin matters, not the color.
@@lubhita_10 Stop eating dairy products your skin will clear up.
@@shin-ishikiri-no It's not that easy for some people
@@shin-ishikiri-no Dairy products are good for the skin
Draupadi was described to be dark as black eyes and was called krishnaa. She was that beautiful woman for whom the kurukshetra war had occured.
Yesss, very true she was also called Krishnaa becuz she was as dark as Krishna. But I thk the representations in movies and tv series where dey choose fair actors for these roles is where d misunderstanding lies.
yes brother and this guy is telling that the rasicm and casticm are related but in real it's not and there are so many dalits who are farier and there are so many high caste Brahmin have darker skin
@@hellogiri856 *sister hehe
Yes..Draupadi was described as dark complexion with dark thick long hair...
@@hellogiri856 yeah my Rajput friend is darker than me I am obc
I am dark and beautiful.
Snigdha Prakash you go girl 💕
Shriya 😘
😎👌🏾
Snigdha Prakash I know you only feel this here, feel this in real life too gurll
Snigdha Prakash yasss preach queen 💖💖
Theory : *Light skin is superior*
Obama : *Am I a joke to you* ?
You just said what I was thinking right now.
Cringe
Wooohh!! That was... 😳😅
Boom boy
Thats what i was thinking and was going to comment it but all thanks to u ^ω^
I wish I get to throw slippers on fair and lovely's CEO before I die
I will join y'all in your heist!!!🤣🤣
Can I join you??😂😂
Everyone is welcome to join.........🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dude...i would love to join!!lol. It would be satisfying😂😂
I would love to join you
I think all those celebrities need to start apologizing for endorsing these fairness products. If they could influence people so heavily negatively, maybe their apology could change some minds.
You are absolutely right ! What a disgrace coming from them.
Exactly! Priyanka did say she regretted doing the advert and using whitening products. But pple like deepika and Shah rukh need to stop doing these ads too
I agree
Amanpreet Kaur but being an advocate ahead of your time doesn’t guarantee getting you more brand and movie deals 💸
People will never be 100% happy with themselves
Yep!
This is an ultimate true fact ! Even if they will be, they will surely be brainwash by someone !!!
Yes there's also lot of fair girls who get tanned because they hate their skin and they are told they look like ghosts or sick and bloodless 😅😂
Really sad because their natural dark skin is gorgeous.
Do you know a significant proportion of Indian population is naturally light in colour. It mostly depend on geography and their casts. Indians in northern parts are mostly lighter whereas in southern part are mostly darker. Still skins of all shades are found in Indian in all these parts.
nope
@@spike8244 Iyengar Southern are light
It's not racism. It's called colourism.
@Blacka Đøn no it's colorism. Someone can be both black and naturally pale as hell but treated differently because they are at the end of the day still a black person. Same goes for an Indian person.
Colorism and racism are two different things. If an Indian woman prefers a white skin, that doesn't means she hates her own people, it just mean she holds fair skin in higher esteem. In the past light skinned people were usually the better off people because those haven't had to work in hard menial jobs like working on fields - so culturally they were conditioned to 'like' light skin.
@@wesornaitit please explain how tf we are all black? What evidence is there? You somehow hold the answers to these questions that no one else does presumably
Well, it-s not like racism is well founded in something different than the color of the skin, at the end both colorism and racism are the same, unless you buy into the "there are different human races" thing
@Blacka Đøn No, it's colorism.
3:13...
Rama,Krishna was as dark as rain filled cloud.. neelimeghashyam.
Goddess Parvati was also described to be extremely dark skinned.
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D problem lies when dey are portrayed in movies and tv by FAIR actors. D Ramayana had a fair Ram plus d Mahabharata the series had a fair draupadi. Which is wrong
i will never understand people who obsess over fairness and let down darker skin toned people. i love dusky and dark people, i find them sexy and so beautiful in such a unique way
They are conditioned that way due to the way they were raised, their social environment and the media. I know a girl that wears foundation and powder that is slightly lighter than her original skin tone because she wants to look 1 shade lighter. She's actually admitted this. Sad really.
Not everyone love but yes sadly it's true my aunt wants a "gori chitti pyari" meaning a pale lovely girl although my gf is brown basically and super dark. I myself am white af, some even had the indecency to say I couldn't get a light skinned girl so I choose her which is not true at all cause my ex was a white bitch, but that just shows how much undesirable the society perceives dark skinned girls to be.
Same! I actually find browner skin tones more attractive 🤔, glad I wasn’t brainwashed by culture and media
@@Babyshoes777 I find white and fair skin tones much more attractive, so was I brainwashed for a preference ?
乙卂ㄒ丂ㄩҜ丨几ㄖ idk, only you can answer that. But my guess is, at the very least you’ve been influenced by culture and media
YESS!!
finally someone talks about this topic!
there are still people in these days and even in my family who especially in weddings would compare the skin tone of the bride and the groom and their siblings' tone.....like its 2k18!!! just stop!! who cares about the colour!
great job Andre!
Praneetha Kakumanu really girl is compared with fairness and boy is compared with the amount of money he makes
Praneetha Kakumanu exactly I hate it when people do this at weddings.
Praneetha Kakumanu :))
also don't forget the people suggesting ways to lighten the skin
*facepalm*
Praneetha Kakumanu Humans won't be happy what they got . Even i want to add 20 kg as my height is 5.11 and weight 53 😂😂 which is very low
My mom is super fair and my dad is dusky,I happened to get my dad's skin tone and every family member I've come across pities me for not being "blessed" with my mom skin's tone
That's me LOL. One of my relatives legit told me "Your mom's fair.what happened to you"? I mean TF. Not like I got a disease hon.
WTH...How rude...my mum is fair n I'm not..
Dare them to say that to me I will probably educate them, the pros of dark skin.
Yup. I've faced that. Luckily, with age, you really do start to become comfortable in your skin. Now I honestly would not give up my nandita das/Padma Laksmi skin tone for anything; I'm not impressed by fair skin either. However I live abroad so it much easier to avoid Indian bigotry - I'm glad that I don't have to face that negativity on a daily basis. I only wish all dusky people can really SEE how sexy their skin truly is - that it is not a lame self affirmation shtick to say dark is beautiful
snaptrix 123 I so agree with you 👏🏼
Most of the issues end when you don't give in to people's opinions and love yourself for who you are!
Same with me and my sisters hair texture.
Boys making fun of girls putting makeup and creams .
Oh hello we have to do all these because of you guys. You guys want a fairer bride and thats what make us feel insecure
Dark is better than makeup
@@hwfq34fajw9foiffawdiufhuaiwfhw what do you mean by *too dark*
@Jiya Sharma i do agree . I have seen many people wearing overload makeup . A little is ok but too much is bad for their skin also.....
@@hwfq34fajw9foiffawdiufhuaiwfhw too dark malayalam . Do you have brain??? Excuse me . So directly saying that all malayalees are too dark . Such a stupidity . I am a malayalee i living in Kerala . Hey man come here i will you show whites , blacks and mixed ones here. I told in the comment that men like you are the reason girls go for fair skin . And finally its not malayalam its malayalees . Malayalam is their language.
@@FS-GAMING-F4K He is not saying all dark looking people are malayalees but one who are dark looks like them. Technically he is not wrong. He is just stating his preference. Be chill
I just find it extremely funny that we Indians look down upon dark skinned people, when a lot of our gods and goddesses themselves are so dark. Like Krishna, Kali
tanisha dey and Shiva , Vishnu and so many more!
tanisha dey yes we also worship so many devis. But once you come out of the temple all that respect for women is gone.
Pallavi K true dat. We worship Kali, Durga for destroying evil guys and expect our daughters, sisters to keep quiet and do nothing in the event of harassment.
Pallavi K be a little optimistic and positive in life girl!
Really you said it correct. It is ironic. We dont give fairness creams to Ram, Krishna and Kali, do we?
Good video!This obsession must stop. I get a lot of patients who wish to change their skin colour. The worst part is parents bring along their children asking for fairer skin. Girls as young as 5 years old are made to feel their complexion is dark and are pushed into believing that only fair is beautiful. We have to work towards changing this mindset.
India is not the only country obsessed with fair skin. It's all over the world, Japan, China, Brazil, everywhere. Slavery has had a huge impact on the entire world. Everywhere in the world, people are treated fairer the lighter they are. People use skin lightening creams simply because they want a leg up.
Agreed! It's a global thing.
@HausOfCortez The effects of slavery are felt throughout the entire world. Of course there are other factors though. Rihanna is lying, I can tell you that much. Light skin is a huge thing in the Caribbean. There is a bleaching epidemic there. Sure people will day things about your skin color no matter where you are and no matter what your complexion but for her to say that she was picked on is a stretch. Furthermore, Rihanna was never, ever very light skinned. She is the complexion she is now, due to excessive bleaching. Watch her past videos and interviews and you will see the huge difference in her skin color. Skin bleaching is a pandemic phenomenon. The only thing that can change the global perception of a person's worth being tied to their skin color is if we " emancipate ourselves from mental slavery.
And in Europe, people are obsessed eithwith tanning
HausOfCortez it is not a cultural thing at all. it stems from imperialism, and the mindset that white people are more attractive then we are that’s why light skin is held to a high regard in asian countries. the more caucasian you look, the more “beautiful” you are perceived to be by asians. that’s why you get bonus points for having brown hair instead of “black” and blue, green, or hazel eyes instead of brown. it has EVERYTHING to do with the western world and wanting to be like them lmao gtfo
HausOfCortez i don’t believe that rihanna part even a little bit. the black community, like literally every other colored community suffers from colorism. and it all stems from imperialism and slavery (in the case of the black community). let’s no dismiss what’s actually going on here
Why are people telling that brown is more beautiful? All skin shades are pretty and perfect.
Fair skinned people are often referred to as," uska rang SAAF hai" as if dark skin is dirty..??!!??
Manyata Kapoor exactly, nice words👏👏👏👏
Exactly!
Accurate...
Manyata Kapoor dark is dirty
Rajat Sharma lol when ya can't even see me
3:17 what about lord krishna ??? hmm
I guess he was not fair .
Yet he charmed many women ( gopiyan) . :p :p
yes Lord Vishnu is dark and so are his avatars but the media/cartoon/serials/images like to show them blue!
YEAH BUT THIS A$$ho, ATTACKED HINDUISM FIRST
You call them gods
@@crazymaniac1396 yeah. Better than jesus or Allah or your jew god
@@abhimenon801 Allah is one and nothing like he's creation he has no wife no children he is alone all powerful all knowing all seeing all hearing
How is he all knowing you ask the same way he knows how the universe becan for example
The big bang Quran 21:30 did the unbelievers not realize that the heavens ie universe and earth were a joined entity and we sepperated them
And he also knows the nature of he's creation
Such as the expansion of the universe Quran 51:47 and the heavens we constructed in strength and indeed we are its expander
So how do you explain this and believe me I've got hundreds more also prophecy that came true
And the idols that you worship which you crafted by you're own hands do you they see do they reply if someone wants destroy them do they defend themselves or if the water in a certain land dryed up will the cow bring water from the ground to feed its self?
This is whole Asia's problem
Nupur Kumar especially with Indians, because they are quite black but want to be white.
Yeah, Indonesians love fair skin, but not that obsessed tho
This is whole world's problem
@@soptonndrisn602 I don't know about world but yeah asian people love White skin.
BuyingOGNames this is what i'm saying .
I didn't say that this isn't an asian problem but that this a problem of all the world.
It’s just the whole Asia, have you seen Chinese people they are white and they make them more white like paint.
All skin tone are beautiful, be proud of what god made you.
Exactly they don't even need to use any products, still they do 🤦♀️
Am happy being dusky. and no one from my family or friends circle has ever discriminated anyone based on skin colour. Sadly my friends have faced racial discrimination even among their own familt and friends. One of my friends is dusky and a brahmin too. Her own family discriminates her. She was worried about it. Am happy about my skin colour. Am happy about the real me. I dont wanna lighten it. I'm unique and beautiful my own way. The person reading this remember what telling now. I'm proud of being the real unfiltered me. You all be proud of ur skin colour and think that u only have that unique skin type in the whole world. *"U R UNIQUE. U R BEAUTIFUL. BROWN OR WHITE U R PRETTY THE WAY U R. DONT LET ANYONE STEAL UR BEAUTY IN HEART"* .
Being brown skinned is a fortunate thing. The westerners are tryna get brown skin. Be proud brown girls. We are blessed with melanin. When v age v dont get wrinkles and skin disease more when compared with white tone skinned ppl. They r having melanin disorder tbh
Fairness is never a problem today in India except when they r searching for a spouse and that's the sad truth.....
some girls also look for height, it's called a preference, stupid liberandus.
I am just glad that actors like Nandita and kangana didn't do these racist ads.
The grass is always greener on the other side
There's two reasons for this obsession
1) Britishers that colonised india
2) bollywood that is continuing it
Well it all because of one simple reason.
People with high paying jobs don't have to go out in the sun much, thus they have fair skin. Because of this fair skin is usually associated with wealth and is valued more. Wealth means high status (in ancient times ruler, in modern times billionare) and people dream about it.
same in Bangladesh too :( my mother is way lighter than me so whenever I met my mom's friends or my relatives whom I never met before,they always say why i am not fair like my mom -_- this really pisses me and my mom off
FZ Ramisa Same I'm also from Bangladesh. I'm the darkest in my family and ppl are like, I'm darker than my mom and sister. These people have to get their heads out of their rectum -_-
FZ Ramisa listen girl . I relate to you. I’ll tell you what , next time straight up when they ask you or tell you anything regarding skin colour sidha ask them ki what’s wrong with my skin colour bitchass hag aunty it’s fucking beautiful. Just tell them
I don't have to tell them anything,my mother does that for me😂
well thanks for the advice!💜
FZ Ramisa same with me 😕
story of my life!!
I seriously don't have any comment,Still India Has a long way to go... Just fingers crossed 🙍
Nidhi Sharma ya true
Abhipsa Hota you know mam mentality like this is very bad how you can say India can never change . Sure it will take longer time than most of the countries but with the course of time i am sure it will change
Abhipsa Hota excuse me miss,FYI India is one of the most fastly developing countries
Anisha Raj Singh that has nothing to do with mentality, you're talking about economically.
Mustafa Alam woah calm down you were very mean by referring India like that you are not even Indian citizen how could you say that . India will become superpower in upcoming years
You know you lost your self confidence from childhood when you were being compared with your sister/brother who has fair skin :(
This happened with many of us.... but now we know that all colours are beautiful! ♡
yudkbh fan same !!
I was told sometimes ..."ayoo colour poyinde mottamm" which basically translates to "you've lost colour!'
like what!?
spicy tequila well, we will not do such with the upcoming generation and never forget, God's creation is always beautiful and we are one of them!
yudkbh fan yes😊one day all this will end
"No one is born ugly we are just born in a judgemental society"
- Kim Namjoon
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The replys are full of toxic butthurt haters trying to justify why they hate someone they haven't met or know personally 🙂
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@Arjan Singh jeon jungkook and park jimin,yes
@Arjan Singh i see ur doing that on purpose ......go get a life instead of hating bruh
Same is the case in Pakistan, here, people want to be fairer and fairer like snow even if they have light skin tone naturally
They all are descendent from India
İroş İkboş nope only punjabis and sindhs did. Balochi and pashtun are from persia (Iran) and Afghanistan
Mustafa Alam indians are trying to bleach their skin and ruin it. Europeans are sun tanning which is way less harmful than bleaching
Vrysed hey India is diverse in India you have caste system that’s the reason there is diversity in skin color .In India those who have more of ancestral North Indian DNA in them are fair skinned same goes for south of India .Indian is not an race and the population is not homogeneous you would find pale ,light brown and dark brown skin colour here .
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_classification_of_Indian_Americans
This above is a link to why indians are not racially classified in USA it’s because of their diversity in skin colour .
İroş İkboş indian is not an race and most of the people here don’t have indigenous origins .Some of us have more of aryan roots while some have Dravidian you would find Indians who look Mongolian also in north east .India is known to be the most diverse country . But saying indian is race is false cause like turkish indian is not an race .Indian is a nationality which has more than 400 ethnic groups .
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_classification_of_Indian_Americans
Indians are not racially classified because of the diversity in skin color .
Nice video! In the UK dark skin is considered more attractive and we are constantly obsessed with getting tanned in the sun or using self tanning treatments! I personally think that men with brown skin are much more attractive than men with white skin. ☺️
Londonki_Lali one of my Brazilian friend says the same . She also wants brown skin like princess jasmine but she is white . I guess we humans are not happy what we got and always want things that we don't or can't have
So true! I wish I had brown indian skin :)
Londonki_Lali lol many of my friends wants white skin . Man we won't get what we want still i am happy with my skin 😂😂
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence!
Samina Kagalwala true
best example is deepika padukone alone... when was beautifully dusky she wasn't given good roles and offers but once she turned fair she started getting the best
watch this ruclips.net/video/a9x0ZTm2784/видео.html
I'm a dark skinned girl and so many people gave me hate comments bt I completely ignore them..
Keep going girl 💛
@@bhanupriyanayak7574 thank you 🥰
ignore all them haters
@@-kappa- thank u 🙏
I am a fair skinned and I think your color is beautiful mshallah be proud of yourself and ignore them you can do it
Darkskin is beautiful ♥️
@Kir By We're talking about dark skin right now. You can go love white skin somewhere else. Bye.
@@voidx1231 lol
@@voidx1231 Lmao triggered lol
@Kir By Yes
@Kir By 😂
I am obessed with INTM, when there first winner was dark skinned, I legit cried (partly out of shock)
The Oscarless Actress IKR..
Same..even the 2017 winner was brown
Nithya Shree SAME
The Oscarless Actress omg same here Danielle is gorgeous!
The Oscarless Actress you're obsessed with dark skin
You're racist
Skin colour doesn't matter.
What matters is how much you love your body. Stay healthy, eat good food and be clean. that all
veipunii lana exactly
Well said🥰
It's better to say all skin color matters instead. ☺️
I had one experience when I had a dance at my school the makeup aunty literally whitewashed me
Wait a min. 3:16 is not entirely true. Many superior Indian gods such as Shiva, Vishnu, Krishna, Kali maa are dark skinned and worshipped in India. The irony is even when we worship those gods, people are still racist to their own dark skinned friends and families.
+Shruti Vishnu Patil Because Buzzfeed is sponsored and run by ideological Marxists/leftists who believe that all the problems of India are due to Hinduism. This video would have been a good video if they left out the "Aryan"-Hinduism nonsense, but this is Buzzfeed. Destroying Hindu culture by subtly demonizing it for all the problems of India is the ultimate purpose.
I never knew a god could have skin colors that sounds pretty exotic 😂
They are dark in texts, but people are embarrassed even of their gods being dark. All dark gods are portrayed in "BLUE".
they portray them as blue skins instead of dark brown skin to avoid feeling ashamed of their gods. at many instances, shiva even gets white skins in it's portraits.
@@zerozzable hinduism is a disease, face facts
I am from Germany, and im white as toast haha, i want to be darker like i always are in the sun. All in all we all want what we dont have. I should Acceptance that im a white toast because many People want it. I should Accept the Way i am. And everybody who is reading this, youre beautiful no matter which colour your skin has!
@Daddy He is a black Indian that can't accept himself and his shithole country.
@@merengsanjana7981, u think ? Well I think dat u are a pathetic fool for telling a country off like dat
you mean as pale as white bread because toast is golden brown ?
Amber xx In german toast and bread have the same meaning
@Bidu Bidu And if we said brown or black skin is boring, we would be called racist. Funny how it's okay for non-whites to say "white skin is boring" lol.
Shiva and Kali are dark skinned. 🙄 They are super powerful.
Yes draupadi and krishna were also dark and described as very beautiful
You know both of you idiots are talking about made up mythological figures, right?
@@vijaynair2403 They are referring to the point in the video that historically powerful characters were fair skin, when in reality it's just modern depiction of mythological characters that practise this.
in indian cartoons and serials, they are blue. krishna, shiv, kali are blue, lol like black is o offensive to the culture that they make the characters blue.
And that is why media and such turned them blue, because someone alien colours are better than dark colours
Theory : Light Skinned are Superior
Obama : Hold my Beer
Every skin colour is beautiful❤Learn to always love yourself first!!
compared to Korea & Japan....India's fair skin obsession is only like 20%
True...south korean are mad about fairness and beauty..
Indians actually want an olive skin tone like most middle Easterners but East Asians are obsessed with porcelain paper white skin... Like too white.
jennifer nerd true that
So true
jennifer nerd true that ✌
Thank you Andre. We Indians really need this. India needs to change. By posting this kind of videos, you're reaching a large population. Thanks for breaking past the funny videos of BuzzFeed and highlighting some important issues. Love your fun videos as well!
I have a question, unfortunately it going to take awhile for me to get there.
So, I'm an African American woman, who's "mostly" consider neither light skin or dark skin in the black community. "Mostly" because sometime my skin is describe as "light to medium" toned by other black people.
I had a female friend whose is Indian (we unfortunately lost contact).
Once when we were having lunch, she commented that her mom told her that she was getting too dark and that she needed to bleach her skin.
I was shocked and confused.
Plus, this was the first time I heard of skin bleaching in Asian cultures (but, I knew about it in black cultures (of course), and Latina/Hispanic cultures).
Along with other things, I was also confused about her thinking she was dark skin. I was way darker than her and I'm not consider dark skinned.
I expressed that there is nothing wrong with her skin tone, and I pointed out that she was not dark skinned. She told me that in Indian culture she considered dark skin.
(We talked about it some more, but my experience as a African American women was not helpful to her experience as an Indian woman.)
So, my question is, what is the criteria for light skin (or "fair" as I read in many comments) and dark skin in Indian culture?
In black culture, it was the paper brown bag test. :(
In Latin and Hispanic cultures, it just having native DNA/roots (example: Mayans, Incas, Aztecs) and black DNA/roots (Afro-Latina which is associated with slavery) or having non-European facial features.
But, what constitutes as dark skin and light skin in India?
If this question makes you feel uncomfortable, please don't answer. I was just curious about Indian culture as I was about mine and Latina/Hispanic culture.
P.S. To any black (Afro) readers of this comment, when I stated that I'm not considered light skin or dark skin in African American (or Black culture period), it's just for reference of my perspective and to give insight of my friend's skin tone. I don't think skin tone should matter in any culture!
Lolo Smith Girl stop writing a novel and watch this video again. In India having brown skin you are considered dark skin. Having pale skin, you are considered light skin. The video was clear on that. Miss America of Indian descent is a clear example of that. Colorism within African communities can not be compared to colorism within Indian communities, and you can also not compare that to colorism in Asian communities.
C Will if you consider my comment a novel, than I feel sorry for your academic future.
Secondly, I watched the video. All 8 minutes and 3 seconds of it, and I understood it extremely well. But sweetie, 8 minutes and 3 seconds cannot fully explain centuries of India's colorism history. If nothing else, understand that.
Pro tip: *first* fully read someone else comment, *then* understand said person's comment, and then *lastly,* _(only after the first two steps have been followed),_ and only if it is necessary, comment to said comment.
I know that colorism is different in Asian cultures vs African American cultures. I stated that several times, so I don't need you to repeat something that I already acknowledge. I also stated that her experience was different from my experience so I could not fully help her when she was upset (all of this is in my comment; which you apparently find too long).
What I wanted was a clearer understanding of what constitutes as dark skin in India. Because some of the women were not pale in the video, they were just a lighter shade of brown.
There has to be a threshold between pale and dark and I wanted to know what it is in India. (In my "novel," I stated that it is the paper bag test).
And I just wanted to understands India's threshold for pale and dark.
As a black women, I think of pale skin it is mostly associated with white culture, so I was seeking a better understanding of Indian culture perspective of what pale mean.
C Will, I was not rude and mean. I am only trying to learn about someone else's culture. (And as I did when I wanted to learn more about it in Latin and Hispanic culture). And if you have a problem with that, then you have a problem with that.
And if you don't have the answer to my comment then move on because I truly was not asking you then.
But stop making assumption and thinking you are clever. Because I am not interested in your ego.
I only wanted to learn _more_ about someone else's culture. And I am trying to do so with consideration to the individuals in that culture.
This conversation could be hard and uncomfortable for some people and I understand that.
Nothing more, nothing less!
C Will, have a good day!!!!
@lolo Smith
In India any skin color not matching the skin tone of a "white" American or an European is considered dark, that's the reason even fairest of the fair are obsessed with it and unfortunately grooms in India want to seek the "fairest" bride for themselves.
It's all because of the notion that people believe "fairskin" to be attractive and beautiful.
I hope people realize that this video focuses solely on the North Indian perspective, For thousands of years dark skin in the south was seen as beautiful and an indicator of fertility and women hood. It wasn't until the final conquering of the South by the Portuguese and Brits that the colonizer mindset to love white skin over their own was introduced and heavily reinforced. Even now however the skin lightening obsession is far more a northern problem then in the south where the sales of skin lightening cream for men and women are nowhere near as high as in the North. This has to do with the fact southerners weren't as exposed to Conquerors like the Mughals or Persians so they never had an inferiority complex like Northerners had toward light skin which was heavily reinforced during colonialism
Sadly an indian girl was making fun of me because I was tan even though we’re literally the same skin tone
I'm a south indian born and brought up in North India actually north Indians are more obsessed with fair than south indians, my classmates some time call me Kali(black) and tease but south indians are so good they never commented on my skin tone
South Indians are more educated
Same sister
Are sister...atleast we r blessed with better features ❤ ...and wts the point of being fair or white when you dont even know who u r and wt u want in ur life..😏...just carry ur life..no need to go for modifications but just enhance the beauty u were born with..and taaaddaaa 😘...a confident, kind and smart women is the one who can rule..
@Poornima Devi ha, it's because of tube light and YouCam app
Now u guys r all just having a go at north indians, we’re meant to be tackling the issue of racism together not opposing parts of our own country and taking sides. l. Here in Australia, so many Malayali friends I have r absolutely obsessed with their skin tones, I quote from one of them, "Even if I die from bleaching my skin, I'll be happy that I died white" and no I'm not joking. Cause I grew up in Australia, I got pretty sunburnt and because of the I'm a lot darker than the rest of my family and friends in India (punjab), and none of them make fun of my skin tone. So just stop.
Apparently people are getting discriminated from jobs if they have darker skin too.
Smh
It's definitely true for actors and models, it's legit stopping darker skinned actors from getting jobs... do you have any other sources about any other professions? We need to bring it to the attention of the masses
yea call it colorism. I say call it discrimination especially when you start up with people of color
Star Cherry Yep, apparently in South Korea, a girl couldn't go to UNI as she was Indian
@@hyperoid3901 is it the youtuber Sonal Yadav that lives in South-Korea?Yeah,They didn't let her in.
@@humairaakter2853 Yup that one
I just don't think so that " India has a long way to go to end it's obsession with fair skin" because India doesn't even acknowledge this as a matter of concern. I'm dark skinned too and I just feel that this prejudice of dark skinned-light skinned has found its way to reasoning , i.e. , if you're unable to do something, it's because you're dark, or if u don't have anyone in your life it's probably because you have more melanin inside you than more of " good personality". I see fair people calling other dark skinned people names, unapologetically. They don't mind if u tell them that they are 'racist', they will admit it themselves blatantly. India is not even close to a struggle. It needs a personality makeover. India needs to know that dark people's skin don't have mud clogged inside their pores.
ruclips.net/video/a9x0ZTm2784/видео.html
shaorya sood True. Remember Shani Dev and Mahakali Maa...
All my love to the dark, brown olive skin Indians. the most kind hearted and beautiful. just remember when we die its our soul that is beautiful.
When I was younger, I used to watch a lot of tv. They had a lot of fairness creams ads, and I got convinced that fair and lovely cream was something I needed. Luckily, my parents said no, and I am glad that my parents said that, because now, I feel that my skin is unique. I’m me!
Same with my parents. They are happy with what skin colour i have. They never discriminate anyone based on skin colour. They never try to make my skin tone fairer. Blessed to have them
Am happy being dusky. and no one from my family or friends circle has ever discriminated anyone based on skin colour. Sadly my friends have faced racial discrimination even among their own familt and friends. One of my friends is dusky and a brahmin too. Her own family discriminates her. She was worried about it. Am happy about my skin colour. Am happy about the real me. I dont wanna lighten it. I'm unique and beautiful my own way. The person reading this remember what telling now. I'm proud of being the real unfiltered me. You all be proud of ur skin colour and think that u only have that unique skin type in the whole world. *"U R UNIQUE. U R BEAUTIFUL. BROWN OR WHITE U R PRETTY THE WAY U R. DONT LET ANYONE STEAL UR BEAUTY IN HEART"* .
Being brown skinned is a fortunate thing. The westerners are tryna get brown skin. Be proud brown girls. We are blessed with melanin. When v age v dont get wrinkles and skin disease more when compared with white tone skinned ppl. They r having melanin disorder tbh
Smart parents
Great parents
I am a dark skinned south indian.... proud of my skin tone, the skin tone of my ancestors, the sons of this soil... who laid their lives down to protect my land, language and culture...... not a mixed race person.... 😉 😊👍 👍 👍
It's up to what you like. I prefer light-skinned people, just something I'm attracted towards. But at the same time I don't hate dark skinned people
You can't be a pure race dumbass 😂. Only people in Africa could be
@EGGPLANT That's what I literally said
@EGGPLANT I said only people in Africa could be a pure race.
@EGGPLANT Ya wrote that by mistake. What I meant was pure race
In my life time no fairness Cream I ever used . Yes I've a dark skin tone 😀 and I'm happy with that😍
Sanchari Sen bitch don’t even ever dare to like wtf your skin is just beautiful the way it is 😍just drink lots of water and stay healthy 😄
I pray that one day everyone can learn to love themselves like you do. Dont ever change :) God bless you.
Thanks all 😀😍
I heard from one Indian classmate in college that (no joke) the darker skin tones were a result of the Islamic Conquests.
Nevermind that initially the Ghaznavid Turk and Mughals (who were sort of a mix of Mongol, Turk, and Persian descent) would conquer India after the 8th century and were markedly lighter skinned than the native population. Probably even lighter skinned than the original Aryan conquerors.
So in actuality, the Islamic conquests actually led to the lightening of some native population skin tones, though probably negligibly.
Now sharukh answering all the critics who says suhana khan littile darker
Now i belive in karma 😎
I'm mexican american with a light skinned mom and dark skinned dad. My skin color is just right in between light and dark skin. In the summertime, I tan so easily and in the wintertime my skin turns lighter.
Darker skin people actually are blessed because the melanin in your skin protects your skin from the harsh sun rays that can damage your skin. So, that means that darker skin doesn't wrinkle that easily. Whereas, the lighter your skin color, the more wrinkles you will get if you don't protect your skin from the sun.
stop comparing them both. they're both beautiful colours
That's absolutely a true fact ! Melanin is a very important pigment for us.. and bcoz of different geography... humans evolved with their respective colour ! Western areas are cold and need more sunlight absorption hence they hv less melanin (as it reflects sunlight). While in tropical region like India we hv moderate temperature and hence all types of skin tone!
And I don't think that this biological process has anything to do with an adjective called *"Beautiful"* !
Im mexican american too with a light skinned mom and a dark skinned dad and I got a medium skin tone I'm darker than my mom but lighter than my dad and I love my skin tone. I take pictures in the sun and it gives me a pretty glowy look. Their is nothing wrong with being dark or light just got to accept themselves
Corinna Villalobos Which is also why blacks are good for working in the fields.
Arggh! I hate when people say you are beautiful for a dark skinned girl! Every complexion is beautiful 😍
_Anwe Sha_ what??? U urself said every complexion is beautiful thn y u feeling so insecure if someone complimented a woman of color 😕
_Anwe Sha_ should slap those morons..I would actually insult them to the ground.
_Anwe Sha_ sorry, you have to deal with that kind of people. Tell them "you are highly ignorant for an educated person."
Sherin Elizabeth I meant to say that people say Dark skin is not beautiful! I am sorry If you didn't get me!
Priya K That's a nice comeback! Thanks! I will surely try it
"Fair", in the context of beauty, means equal and balanced which applies to all regardless of skin color, but here, Its other meaning implies having a skin color naturally worthy of blessed fair treatment while a darker colored skin is naturally deserving of unfair treatment. We ahould stop using the word "fair" to describe skin color.
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Boyyy I'd rather be brown and have smooth and shiny skin rather than be fair and unlovely with crusty ass moon-crater skin. I can't believe it's 2018 and people still have these ideologies ugh.
not all brown people have perfect smooth skin, they can just have normal acne-prone skin with scars and marks as well,a and that should be considered alright as well.
bellmy balke Yes of course. Skin can't be perfect. It was just my opinion on what I consider ideal skin for myself. We should also not forget that Indian/brown skin is very prone to hyper pigmentation
@@mearat.btsthepiedpiper.3250 i definitely agree with that one.
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I don't know why skin tone matters. I'd rather be super dark with nice features than fair with not so nice features.
But then again what is “nice features” what YOU would consider a nice feature may not be a nice feature for me , I think everyone should love and celebrate the way they were created
Who says that you have to settle for one or another?
Alissa Dem Haha👌👏!Indeed!
sanic your answers are subjective “pretty eyes” “cute lips” again what I consider pretty eyes is different depending on the person
What's wrong having both.. beautiful facial features and beautiful youthful fair skin like me?? : )
Beauty is in the eyes of beholder 😍
black girl spotted.
We don't need to be fair outside but we need to be fair inside
Its seen everywhere that people are obsessed with any feature that's exotic to that mainland. In india people are obsessed with fair skin while in west people are obsessed with tanned dusky skin. Natural features are embraced by very few people. 🙂
Time to crackdown these advertising agencies and brands which promotes insecurity among indians regarding their natural features. 😕
Rajeev Singh
When Indians bleach, they literally want to be as pale as possible. When white people tan, they go for a slightly darker look (one that can typically be achieved naturally by going in the sun). They don’t try to be as dark as possible. I don’t think it’s that same thing.
My mum was also subjected to colorism in her childhood just because she was dark skinned. That shaken her self esteem greatly. So much that even now she can't see herself as a beautiful woman that she is. Trust me my mum looked like a model in her 20s. To my dad she's the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen. I don't know why we treat dusky people like a piece of crap.
My skin is my skin none of your skin. Lame I know. Awesome video btw. These topics need to be brought up
Hermione Granger hahahahhahahahaha man that was savage .ur right my skin is my skin 😁😁😁😁
Hermione Granger 😂😂😂😂😂 lmao
Zainab Arif 😁😁😀
Although this video is very elaborate and well put forth, I think it misrepresented the hindu mythology part. There are so many gods, goddesses and demons of various skin colors. Like Kali who is very dark skinned is worshipped. Vishnu is dark skinned and that's many of his reincarnations are also dark skinned like Ram or Krishna. Literally the meaning of 'Krishna' is black in Sanskrit. On the other hand Raavana is fair skinned.
While over hear in America my mom tans and tries to get darker skin, we want what we don't have
well said we always demand those traits or those things which we don't possess
not the same thing
That's true
It's all pyschology man....the regular working class in America don't go on holidays and beaches whereas the privileged do...so catching a tan is an indicator of prosperity in your case whereas in our case it's the complete opposite...the privileged ones don't catch a tan...btw don't mistake the Indian obsession with fair as white skin obsession..it's basically skin with no tanning...
This is not the same thing
my skin tone is dusky n i love my skin tone😆😆😆
Sharmila Das 👏👏👏👏
same here,Sharmila.I am proud of my skintone.
abhilasha sen 🤣🤣
Same..I am dusky..and I love it🤘
I love dusky tone
Light skin is preferred all across the world. In africans, latinos, east asia (google pictures of Koreans using masks on beach), the middle east.
Even in the now-tanning-obsessed west, pale skin was the standard for centuries.
Sucks, but true. It's not just colonialism, or else 'fair maidens' wouldn't be idolized in old English poetry etc either.
In this kind of environment, if you're darker, you've got to find ways to love yourself. Black is beautiful movement from the 60s and 70s is probably the most empowering, and then we have the current day dark skinned instagrammers and makeup artists who are showing how it's just a different skin color and how beautiful it can be if just embraced and taken care of rather than rejected and destroyed.
Are you suggesting that poets wrote poetry about fair maidens specifically to justify the colonial adventures of their governments and not about their crushes etc?
What's next? Was the chalk white makeup of Europe in 16 and 1700s specifically aimed to make Asians and Africans living thousands of miles away feel bad about their dark skins and not because it was sought after by Europeans themselves?
Wotcher Humans are excessively primitive. It’s not surprising many would be drawn to the aesthetic of pale skin, despite it being far less useful (and beautiful, in my opinion) than dark skin.
Just like we got over our initial beliefs that the earth is flat and the sun revolves around us, we’ll abandon the notion that pale skin is better than darker skin. Many of us already have. I’d die if my skin was paler :(
Pale skin was never desired in Africa pre-colonialism. In Africa having pale skin was associated with being a fucking witch and demon! Where are you getting your information that we desired pale skin before you pales landed on our shores? Even in my country Ethiopia, to this day pale skin is disliked and associated being a witch. Africans have always loved our dark skin, medium skin, and light skin tones. It wasn't until Europeans came and shoved your pale, uncolored, no melanin skin down our throat that views began to change. In parts of Tanzania albino kids are killed to this day. Don't flatter yourself, we have never liked your skin color.
Growing up in the U.S. , I equated the word “fair” with “beautiful” because of context in fairytales. I had no idea it meant “light-skinned.” I mean, all the princesses were usually Caucasian anyway, so it’s not like that really differentiated them from each other or anybody else, except maybe for “Snow White.”
Wotcher it is because of colonialism and western imperialism. No other reason.
My boyfriend is Pakistani and I’m white and he always says that he wishes his skin was white yet I couldn’t see why because I find his complexion so beautiful and I want my skin to be darker. I had no idea why he thought white looked better until I started looking into this topic. Dark skin is so beautiful.