How colourism led Tan France to bleach his skin | Tan France: Beauty and the Bleach - BBC
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Desperate to escape racist bullying and pressure from surrounding communities, Tan France did something he’s regretted his whole life…bleach his own skin.
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This problem is very prominent in South Asia. Like Tan said it doesn't matter how smart you are or how kind you are, people only judge you based on your color and how you dress up. People get happy if they get mistaken for a different ethnicity. What's so wrong with looking like a South Asian person? Thank you Tan for bringing up this issue.
My indian friend here in america occasionally gets mistaken as mexican and he gets so happy, sad.
@@alecgurney9305 again very sad indeed.
@@sifatamin2219 nothing sad about it.
This is very true I get compliments for having light skin in the Asian community and it makes me uncomfortable I told my parents about it and they told me to just leave it and now idk what to do
Couldn't agree more!
This documentary made me cry my little eyes out. I've used bleaching products in the past, because I wanted to 'pass' and I'm glad that someone has spoken out about all this. Well done Tan, I can see how difficult making this documentary was for you. Thank you so much.
This is the results of colonialism, countries and the people within them are made to believe that the European "race" is superior and thats the beauty standard. Luckily we are moving away from that and even Hollywood is casting more diverse characters whereas in the Philippines, India and Turkey they hire actresses who are lighter skinned and with certain features. Hopefully the other countries can see the West embracing their diversity and learn to love themselves.
Thank you for talking about this issue. I am mixed race but due to my colour have never felt I belonged as it has always been deemed by others that I’m not black enough or white enough to fit into any camp. I have experienced racism throughout my life and am a child of the 70’s, I am now in my 50’s and it breaks my heart knowing that decades on, this problem is still as bad as it was when I was a child and it feels like nothing has changed. I now fear for my children who although lighter skinned than myself, will be judged by others just as I have experienced all my life. The saddest thing is that most of the racism I have experienced is from the black community, I find when I meet people they are always trying to label me and try to find out my heritage, as if that determines who I am. It’s frightening because my own community does not want to acknowledge this behaviour and when it’s spoken about, it’s instantly deemed that I am siding with the white man, not that I’m speaking my truth of what I am experiencing. Thank you Tan for speaking up about how society judges and how colourism exists.
Maybe when the woke lot stop trying to make the British ashamed of their own nation hood this sort of thing will stop. The white Anglo Saxon nation of the UK only gets irritated when people think they have a right to socially, morally and culturally annexe it. All nations should be proud of their heritage and the UK is not some free for all for any group to think it can knock. The British have been welcoming on the whole but every nation is racist. Its part of mammalian nature . Get over it. The UK is not some god given free for all. Those who boo hoo about it should get over it or return from whence they came.
Black people can make you feel unwanted and ostracize you based on your skin colour but thats about it. If thats the most racism that you ever experienced than consider yourself lucky because guess what: Black ppl can make other black ppl of the same shade feel unwelcolmed in the "black Community". Ppl that dont fit a certain stereotype, that speak "White" etc.
The stuff you might experience is actually defined as lateral/horizontal violence which is a symptom of Racism but Outside that marginalised group how did black ppl effect your Life. Do You earn less because of black people. Are all your Bosses black so now you have to tackle your Trauma?
Tan has such a beautiful soul.
And not bad looking either - hate the idea of anyone being made to feel ugly.
I grew up here in Utah. I was a Native American attending an all white school. I know what you mean Tan. My school years were very difficult being called names, even being called the N word . Now I’m very proud of being Native and my skin coloring. Thank you for being you and I love everything you do!
I wish people would only be judged by the way they behave and how good their hearts are. Skin colour is such a stupid reason for that 😔
This is so relatable. Thank you so much for doing this. I experienced this myself.
When he gets older, he is gonna wish he was darker, cause he would have terrible wrinkles and this will send him running to get Botox. Darker you are, the better you look, particularly in the sun. Nobody should bleach their skin.
this comment screams colourism also. the only difference is reversed colour.
Not necessary dear. Asian women are very bright or white and they age very well
families need to stop this. I am black and very dark and am thankful for not getting these messages in the home. The darkest skin tones are quite beautiful and it’s sad that many don’t see this.
Tan is such a beautiful soul 💚💚 thank you for sharing his story
I’m just passing to say what an Insightful and essential programme you made. Very educating. Congratulations Tan France! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I’m from where he is from and I think I’m a similar age. Racism against people of Pakistani heritage was very real. The P word was frequent. And after September 11th it got worse.
The P word also gets thrown at every single South Asian, regardless of which country or religion they belong to
@@nancytwinkle7677 the p Word is only a Thing in the UK. I Had to Google it i remembered learning about it in english class p-bashing etc
Interesting insight, easy to be critical and judge from the outside and this guy had his motivations. But physically, do not do it. People think they want to look better but bleaching wrecks your skin, ages it and in the longrun leaves you prone to other risks.
Thank you for sharing your story Tan. I am a 48 year old white gay female. I have a olive skin and therefore has always been teased during school years. One would think it stops there. For 9 years i was in a relationship where i had to sit and listen to comments, jokes and the teasing of my darker skin. 2 Year ago i got up one day and walked out the door, i left for good. In my view people, young or old just have no understanding of what negative comments, jokes and teasing do to one's soul....
You've got to study their cultural background and history to have something they may not proud of, remember: every bully have flaws they dont want you to know.
That fact that people know where colorism comes from but continue to engage in it anyway is sad.
I am asian and I am lightskinned, because of my dad. However I grew up with my mum and her family. And they are dark skinned. So at home, they would call me white. But the outside world called me black. This was very confusing to me. But it also gave me the feeling that I didn't belong anywhere. I still feel like that till this day
We have to keep highlighting these issues until it isn't an issue anymore
Beloved, I hear you.
Try being a redhead in Australia, I not only don't have a soul, but I face discrimination from direct sunlight.
yeah it's not really fair, at least scottish and irish redheads only get to dream of sunshine, actually going on fire for going outside is harsh
our family are scottish and irish descendants and almost all of us are dark haired, really dark brown almost black hair, but at least 4 out of 16 of us have the complexion of a redhead, my cousin lives in dubai and he just runs from air conditioned lobbies into cars, he has to wear factor 50 like a kid or he spontaneously combusts bless him lol
Redhead is beautiful.
highly appropriate! i need a shower :(
Yh I hear you guys can easily get skin cancer
I'm a white Australian and I've always embraced my coloured friends. I always wanted to be with someone with a darker skin tone. It's a shame people are still so against some skin colours with all our education and history
coloured???... meaning you are are colourless? whether you acknowledge it or not, you are PINKish or TANish (yellowish-brown)...
Also this can be observed in indo-Caribbean communities in former british colonies. Even after 150+ years living in the west.
He is not dark. He looks pretty light to me in terms for South Asian community...I don’t know if it’s just the lighting in this video..but he is not considered dark.
That’s what I was thinking
When I think of a ds south Asian I think Mindy Kaylee
@@fulllipzthickhipz707 yea..
Shi wtf am I then 💀
He’s already part Aryan
Heartbreaking.
Your Videos are amazing 💛
Does anybody know where else i can watch the full documentary. BBC player wont work in America and I cant find it anywhere else. I wanna watch it so bad
use vpn hunny
Netflix
I can’t imagine
We do not have this problem in Aryavarta (Bharat). There is no White (Mongols can be lighter than Europeans), Black, Red. Yellow, Race, etc. The Races are Aryans (Indo-Euroipeans), Turks, Semites, Negroid, Mongols, etc. The color of the Aryan is from light to brown. This Race is indigenous to Northwestern Indian Subcontinent and touching Central Asia and went Westwards. Southern Europeans and Southern Iranians are also mostly Aryan yet brown. Climatic impact surely. A true Aryan does not look up or look down on any one.
There are some seriously ignorant comments on this video. We love you, Tan. You could be green with blue stripes and we'd still love you. Love sees beyond the surface. Love doesn't give a damn about a color palette. 🥰
I think this is entrenched at a very early age; my son was in 2nd grade when he asked me why I had brown skin, I told him I drink a lot of chocolate milk and laughed, I thought I would make a joke out of this question. After this, he refused to drink chocolate milk. He said, "I don't want to look like you" So it is learned at a very very young age, I saw it with my son.
White, black, caramel, we all are beautiful and period. How ridiculous it is to think otherwise.
Mostly it's cultural...then there are personal insecurities! Parent's should teach their children to love themselves ( REGARDLESS)IN MY CASE I TANNED TO LOOK HEALTHY! BE HAPPY HOW GOD MADE U.... REGARDLESS OF SOCIETY! BLESSINGS TO ALL♥️💯🇿🇦🌿🙏
Parents don't teach this to their children when they hate their own skin or they have insecurity anout skin colour themselves. They start telling their children to get treatments or treat them differently for being darker. Seen it too many times.
Amazing!
Why?
I wish I could send this to my colleagues so they’d understand how hurtful their black jokes are to people of colour, but I imagine it’d just fuel more insults.
Very sad. I got made fun of a lot for being so pale in the late 80s when having a tan was cool. Im northern Scotland/Europe ancestry so I cant really tan I just turn red. But I know it doesn’t compare to this guys experience.
Yes, it does compare. Being ridiculed for something that you have no control over is also not cool. All skin tones are beautiful and PERIOD.
@@edyann ❤️
I grew up in New Zealand and I was literally bullied at school for being sooo white and not being able to tan (in the 90's early 2000s), everyone used to call be Frosty the Snowman or just 'Frosty'. In adulthood in different countries, like in Europe and the US just travelling, I would always get passing comments from people the age of my parents or older asking why I am so white, I need more sun or if I have put sunscreen on...in my late 20's and early 30's. It's a real trigger point for me to this day.
@@strawberrykatnz It's so annoying! Sorry to hear. Try not to listen to them. It's funny after I wrote this original comment I was out walking while wearing shorts and of course some older lady laughs when she walks past me "Enjoy the sun! Those legs are so white they're almost blue" (whatever that means) Crazy boomers
@@paul6925 I ignore it for the most part now. It is more the insinuation that people seem to think I can't look after myself which is pretty insulting for any adult lol. I always make a point of telling my friends of colour that they're perfect just the way they are because that's what I would prefer to hear than some 'joke' comment about my skin colour. I ignore them now but I take comfort in knowing that people have mistake me for being 10-18 years younger than I am, ha! Yes to looking 40 when I am 60🤣🙌😁👌 I would look stupid any other colour anyway. So like you, I wear whatever I want, but I tell them they must feel bad about themselves to try and make others feel bad about the way they look and maybe go seek a therapist. Lol.
Where can I watch this?
Netflix
if he only bleached his skin a few times when younger why is he so light now? he was dark as a teen.
does it really work?
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Did he change his name to White after
I don't consider bleaching to be self harm, but it is definitely harmful. I don't think anyone is intending to harm themselves when they bleach their skin, but I'm sure some bleaching agents carry harmful chemicals.
Its worth reading about history, on how colorism started.
I had no idea. Just considered the accent as a form of speaking better. (I’m just Caucasian). Never noticed his skin except he had a tan. Which I wished I had. Oh, the grass is always greener, isn’t it? 😂
I'm struggling to understand how Tan as he likes to call himself had complexes about his skin as he is light skinned. I feel he is just trying to jump on the bandwagon
Think about it, this was THE FIRST RACE BASED SOCIAL STATUS CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM in the WORLD. FOR CONTEXT the caste system WAS about 3000-years before the African slave trade by europeans and about 2000-years prior to the Arab slave trade of Africans. So you see this is remnants of the caste system of india brought in by the Europeans.
Okay it the same for white ppl being darker make them beautiful nothing different I hated when ppl penalize ppl for bleaching there skin like chill let ppl be it not your skin tf
SOME whites do have a colorism mentality. Blonde is better than brunette, blue eyes are desired, a darker skin tone should be from a tan, not from nature etc. rarely spoken about because it has been acceptable for so long.
Edited for spelling not content.
I'm caucasian and I grew up in a small mostly mostly caucasian town before moving to a metropolitan city ...with all my honesty I cant ever remember hearing anyone say blonde is more desirable than brunette , or blue eyes is better among other caucasians , i can't say i myself have ever even thought about this , probably never thought about it because I have not heard anything about this subject before, other that my grandfather talking about how crazy the German soldiers they captured during the war thought on this kinda thing , which is also probably why I never heard this kinda talk and it would have been looked down upon and taboo to think..i myself have blue eyes and always thought brown was most pleasing to me personally, one reason I was initially attracted to my wife was her beautiful brown eyes :)
nope. nothing to do with SOME anyone, idiots think like that, no further tar or feathers needed
p.s catcav29 I see you edited the word some tk all caps, what i was saying is very very few and in few i mean I and other caucasians besides myself i know have never met this mentality you speak of ..im wondering where you learnt this idea from? what is the "some" you are talking about ? I took this comment to work and nobody knows what you meant, they never thought of it like this
edited for spelling yet unable to spell colour correctly despite the fact that it's in the title to the video, as for the misguided idea that anyone over the age of 5 thinks that blonde is better than brunette is probably due to them being homeschooled and has yet to meet anyone except their blonde and still breastfeeding mother.
That's not to say those ideals didn't exist historically but i think history has proved time and time again that thinking along those lines rarely ends well.
They may somewhat hack their complexion but Features stays the same.
Same thing in America.
A former colleague of mine is from India. She loves Germany and is now married to a German because here in Germany she is beautiful! She is very dark and alone for that ugly. Her beautiful face and her delightful bubbly personality are nothing compared to her dark skin.
@@sirensynapse5603 ❓️
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@@wholeshebang1 I'm bilingual and don't know what you want from me?
I am from Bangladesh and I grew up with massive insecurities with my dark skin colour. I was never told by any man that I was beautiful. Even my own father told me he was finding it hard to find a ‘good’ guy for me to marry me off. I live in London now and the English men loved me for my look and I am now happily married to a very handsome Oxford educated Englishman. In Bangladesh, an equally dark man with a big belly would even be too arrogant to marry me…
@@Life_after_45 loool
Pale-skinned Europeans are subtly discriminated against in certain parts of the world. Everyone wants to be tan, but not me. I'm like a polar bear, Arctic wolf, or unicorn.
Dude isn't even dark and he's bleaching. So sad.
Ridiculous!
I never understood this .
Just finished watching this. Interesting.
But I couldn’t help but notice he’s chosen himself a ‘light skinned’ if not white child, and his partner is fair white.
thatd be right! this clown is just attention seeking. why is it his skin colour is light these days if he only bleached a couple of times in his youth?
he was dark in his teens.
What a shame he has had a bad experience and for many others. I find it so sad he associates the negative times when being in part of the uk , so horrible for Tan that he had to go through that day in day out. However, the rusty dusty smell he mentions of the uk doesn’t represent the countryside, non city areas (the smell is probs just London 😂.)
Hiding from the sun everyday , dunno if light skin of good❤❤
This man is very light skinned. Am I missing something here?
He bleached babes
It makes me sad to know that Tan French, or any of us, ever felt he needed to be anything other than what he was/is.
I believe in God, and I think if God wanted everyone to the same color that’s how the world would be. Since humans are all different colors, I believe that God loves colors; God doesn’t make junk!
Although this documentary was about skin bleaching I couldn't stop wondering that tan had more insecurities and problems in his past not just about skin bleaching because you can tell that to use gay and he must have been really ostracised by his family and had a lot of problems coming out so maybe that was another problem that you had to face
I'm an old white woman and I look like shite. I find many people beautiful. Not based on skin color.
Oh dear ! Don’t put yourself down 🫶🏾 it’s a grace to grow old and it’s normal.Women we are like wine
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I would really like this rubbish to end.
Yes, "caucasians" also think about their skin tone: they want a "healthy tan", ridiculous, isn't it? And they take sunburns and high skin cancer risks to get a darker skin tone.
I was laughed at, my skin doesn't tan, it burns and develops lots of brown spots - that's it. Nevertheless I didn't stop the tanning nonsense until my mid twenties.
Our shadows look all the same!😉😘🤗
Yes! I completely agree! Remember the milk bottle remarks if you were overly pale (especially if you were a beautiful redhead?!)
I do just want to reiterate though, what he said was quite a powerful statement. Those who aren’t Caucasian don’t wake up fearing what the world will do to them ‘today’ because of their skin colour.. what racist remarks kids or adults might hurl at them, how many beatings they might get in the playground or just for walking home etc. It’s a different worry & fear they go through.
Caucasians are still human, we still have our problems, we still get judged on many other levels, but that’s rarely something we get judged for on the same degree / level.
@@LauraBidingCitizen absolutely. I just wonder why people cannot let each other live in peace and quiet. We have so much more in common than what seperates us.
@@Freiya2011 I know, isn’t it so horribly sad that even after all these years since Tan (& myself) were kids, things haven’t moved on nearly as much as they should have with the acceptance of others 😔 I’m not sure I’ll ever understand that pure hatred for others based on skin colour & culture.
Yes I agree we don't have the fear of someone calling us a racial slur
@@izzyisabelle4152 But there are other slurs they use for pale people. Why is "racisl slur" worse than other forms of bullying?
The guy in this video is Caucasian. Maybe he meant to say European ppl don’t have to think of their skin color? Are you kidding me??? Don’t you realize how many ppl tan their skin or get spray tans? How is that not thinking about their skin
..and he’s light skin AF
Funny he bleached his skin, and is literally called Tan
Tan is short for Tanveer.
@@Ohana9999 still valid, but cool to know
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Astaghfirulah al 3deem. What do you submit to?
This video is so racist!
LOL a guy named "tan" talking about skin color! I thought "Tan France" was like a political group of tan people in france who love to tan, but no...
i thought tan france was what we usually did during battle ;)
@@lori6709 and your point is? "tan" is a colloquialism, refering to Tan your hide, as in to beat someone, as in Tan France, like we did in the majority of our battles, but that's called history, google it ;)
Tanveer Wasim Safdar, Your challenge is to get a Masters degree in Physics and apply it to what you already know. WAKE UP!!!!
A person can do whatever they like to themselves so long as they are an adult. But don't suggest for a second society made them do it. They did it because THEY wanted to.
2:47 he already had white skin as a kid
Hehehehehehehehehe
Roadhouse
2:47 he’s already pretty white? What’s the argument here?
It's "I'm a narcissist and I need attention"
Tan France wants to be pale lol.
he is wrong, why do people like a tan if lighter is more beautiful?
2:36 "Caucasian people" are excluded from some of the BBC's internships, so I'm taking those who wanted to apply did have to think about the colour of their skin.
nobody is excluded based on skin colour, if your application doesn't progress beyond that point then yes maybe start looking at it, and tbh if i was the predominantly whitewashed bbc staff i would hope that finally Caucasians might understand the other sides views but silly of me, why would white people acknowledge a few millennia of being the privileged ones when they can moan over not being able to apply for an unpaid internship, just ask mum to get you a job like every other white bbc emp
That's false
@@carlos-dn7gv sure, it's false but also righteous.
"BBC defends BAME-only internship as ‘right thing to do’"
@@carlos-dn7gv of course its false, the bbc are perfect in every way :( seriously back away from the internet before you actually learn something
@@TheDohped only siths deal in absolutes. You can criticize the BBC without strawman arguments
This butterfly won't survive a day in the subcontinent. People there live under more primal struggles in life. Not this rosy shit.
tell him to come to Pakistan 👍
Has not he got anything better to talk about? Vainity and presumption
I'm sorry youfelt what way, especially as a child. It was your parents that moved you to a white country. It's your culture that's the most obsessed with skin colour. So, as long as you don't blame me, then we can be friends :)
WTactualF???? 😶
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Looks like there is another made up word to add to the dictionary to placate the endlessly professionally offended
Err.. what made up word would that be, exactly?!
@@LauraBidingCitizen nice name :) and Lister, is it better to placate the endlessly professionally offended gammon faced idiots who shouldn't be allowed access to the internet until they get their pronouns correct? oh no, again just enjoy your daily mail reading privileges
@@LauraBidingCitizen smeg? lol
All words are made up
@@PD-gt1dm whoah that's deep man, blew my mind like when i found out all thumbs are fingers but not all fingers are thumbs!! there is no spoon mate ;)
God bless East India company British rule ❤️ abolished many cruel slaveries that existed in Tamil Nadu india 🙏🙏🙏🙏 for example,,in the year 1934 a British collector issued 1,.2 million agriculture lands to socially untouchable people ,,One needs to go back a hundred years to understand what was owed to the community, that gave a ray of hope, only to be snatched away abruptly. In 1892, J.H.A. Tremenheere, the British District Collector of Chengalpattu , submitted his extensive report on living conditions of Paraiyars (a caste under Scheduled Castes) titled “Notes on the Pariahs of Chingleput”.1 The report carried detailed studies of the deprivation that the community was living through, and ended with policy recommendations to the government in Madras Presidency in order to improve their living conditions. One of it was to give plots of ‘waste’ lands to the Depressed Classes, including Dalits.
In September 1892, the Madras Presidency passed the orders to assign plots conditionally to members of the community. Conditions dictated that these plots could not be transferred to any person who is not a member of Scheduled Castes through sale, gift, mortgage or lease. It is said that up until 1934, land in the order of 1.2 million acres was assigned to members of the community and such plots are known as Panchami Land. In particular, Panchama means the fifth, which can be taken to refer to the the place attributed to ‘Untouchables’ outside the varna system. Hence, the land for Panchamas was named Panchami.
Thank you Jesus for East India company 🙏🙏👍👍👍
The social structure of caste in India is rooted in the Varna system which segregates the Hindu society hierarchically into four Varnas namely, Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras. The Panchamars or “untouchables” (present day Dalits) are placed below the category of Shudras and exist outside the four fold Varna system. The ideology of caste is based on the notions of purity and pollution. The Panchamars1 were considered the lowest in the society and apart from serving the upper caste landlords they were assigned common duties like removing dead cattle, cleaning drainage, and played a pivotal role in death and funeral ceremonies. Due to the nature of their work they were considered “untouchables” and lived in the fringes of the village. Denied access to mainstream society, their very sight was believed to cause pollution. “Untouchables” were expected to tie an earthen pot round their neck so that their sputum did not fall to the ground and pollute the atmosphere.
British lands to them to help them live with respect and DIGNITY 🙏🙏🙏
God bless British rule in india 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
This Muslim dude needs to find Jesus and read the Bible. Wasim!