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The Normalization of Skin Bleaching in Asia
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- Опубликовано: 18 авг 2024
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Welcome to another deep dive of beauty standards on the continent that brought us kpop, anime, and genshin impact. changing your skin tone is a topic that gets a lot of mixed reactions. especially on social media where people are actively participating in trends and constantly getting recommended ads that are oddly specific. we’re taking a look at the history of skin tone and why we created these standards for people living in Asia. We have some weird tv commercials, popular media, cosmetic procedures, and makeup fails that should have ended up with a lawsuit. pack your bags and bring sunscreen - we’re going on a guided tour of several countries! the deeper we go with this iceberg the scarier it gets. The normalization of skin bleaching #edvasian
"I don't hate my complexion. I hate how society treats me for it. And sometimes it's easier to hate myself than society. "
Such a truthful comment.
But yourself is beautiful!!
Facts💯
I'd still end up hating society tho it would be the same people (again) saying they're "made to think like that" or they'll blame it into media which shows a perticular complexion of skin as beautiful
😩😩😩
Body: produces melanin to protect the skin
Human: uses skin whitening creams that causes skin cancer
Body: 👁️👄👁️
Wrong
Melanin isn’t that good at protecting the skin. Black people need to take protective measures too. I get what you’re trying to do but perpetuating this idea of melanin being magic is even more dangerous and WILL lead to skin cancer
Everyone is exposed to the sun, not everyone lives in a society that wants them to be whiter let alone have access to bs skin “whitening” products
Random humans:
more *whitening* for less cancer.
@@1CE. Huh? Did I say that melanin is magic?
First, black people aren't the only people whom skin produce melanin.
Second, melanin protect from UV rays and makes the skin less prone to sun burn and damage, yes ofc you need to take measures to protect your skin even if your are brown or black, but its still in no way near the protection you must have if you have light skin.
@@Rizekim26 No, it’s about the same
Melanin even in the darkest of people only has like an SPF of 15
Again you think it’s magic and only perpetuating a dangerous myth. Stop
@@1CE. its not a matter of opinion, kid.
go open a biology book instead of posting BS comments on youtube.
“In the end, humans are a bunch of weirdos.” Truer words were never spoken.
Lmao so true
I have very tanned skin and curly black hair. This caused me a lot of issues being a korean, but I've learned to love the way I look and personally, i think the tan and curly hair suit me! 😊
I hate this colorism thing going on. All skin is beautiful even darker skin
Much love from another curly haired girly!
strange, never seen a Korean with curly hair or having dark skin, unless you are a biracial person
I remember being rejected as an angel (at a play in elementary school) because according to the teachers "angels have light skin, and I was too dark for that". That fucked me up for a week, I was really sad about that :(
WTF. Shame on the teachers. They should not be doing that type of shit to you and other kids.
Omg that happened to me. Our teacher used to let us act out the book we brought to read and I brought snow white and didn't get to be the princess in the book I brought 🙄 the teacher didn't say anything but ik that's wat it was. (I recommend not reply to me by putting my @ first cuz I might delete this some time later) also I didn't know we were gonna act the book
wow that's terrible
That’s honestly kinda disgusting to be saying that
That's because they have not read the bible and doesn't know how to identify true beauty (character).
Anyone who is thinking that this video is exaggerated; it isn't. As an Indian I can attest that everything in this video is true. Not only employers, even parents differentiate between children on the basis of their skin tone
and that's legal?
@@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong when that's the norm, people may not notice. And there's always ways to get away if it's not explicit. And laws differs from countries to countries/regions/places
@@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlongWhere I live (small country in Southeast Asia) the law doesn't even care if parents physically ab*use their children. Let alone discriminating over skin color
I think the worst problem in India is the ghastly caste system. It seems very much alive and well. I even see it among Indians who live in the US.
That is so sad that parents do this.
I'm African, with a dark and beautiful skin tone. Just mind my business every day; enjoying the same air, sunrise, and sunset like the rest of the world. Life is simple. There is no need to make a big deal out of skin tones. Peace to all humanity 🙏🏻.
Mi piace ciò che hai detto,ti amo per questo. Ma purtroppo la verità è un'altra con il resto delle persone. Dio ti dia fortuna salute e Amore
. And may he give you the COURAGE to LOVE the skin you're IN!❤❤❤
Same. Only 1 life to live so love yourself. Trying to impress other insecure people is a losing battle because their internal dissatisfaction will always spread outward… and that’s exactly what they want 🤣
I think the darkest skin is often the most beautiful.
I'm Latina, Greek, and white fun my mom, tan olive time skin and I like the tan look. But it can be hard when you get messages saying you should look different from a young age. I've heard in a lot of Asian countries tourists who are darker experience lies of racism
I remember travelling to SK 5 years ago. I am a black girl. I was used to not finding my shades in beauty stores. I still went into one, out of curiosity to see what they had. Let's just say, it was one of the most traumatic experience of my life. The sales rep made fun of me (thinking I couldn't understand), and tried to apply some whitening product on my skin without my consent. More racist pos I've met.
Luckily right after, this wonderful lady in a lingery store treated me like a princess and restored my faith into SK people.
as an indian im literally teriified of going to east asia for this reason. also im not exactly a size zero and ive heard even stick thin people get bodyshamed there
@@starlessfaeThey do. Koreans view South Asians very badly and think they are poor.
Wat vinden ze nou mooi aan die kleur?? Het is geeneens een kleur 🤡
@@starlessfae
Here in Malaysia, Indians are part of the major population and people still make fun of you for having dark skin.
Eww, shame on that sales rep, sorry for that happened
I'm a tan Indian girl who's born in a family of fair skinned people. My grandma used to buy me 'Fair&lovely'(a popular Indian skin whitening cream) whenever we visited her and always scolded me for being outside and she will say 'get inside or else you'll get even darker and It'll be hard for us to find you a groom'. This affected my confidence so badly and developed insecurity in me even at a young age
Those fair and lovely ads are 🐂💩
Girl don't even listen to them, you are beautiful just the way you are💜💜
They changed their name to glow and lovely now. Because apparently that .... Changes the function??? No
@@vinylcreeks but they show the model as fair skinned and not tan or dark so they just cover uped the name but didn't change the mind set
💙
I'm so glad that you didn't limit the topic just to Korea, Japan and China like most of the people, but included India. It was reaaaaally needed!! Somebody had to say it!
Yeah I'm sick of colorist comments in our country India....i am not a victim but I can't tolerate people discriminating my cousins or my bestie for that
@Reeshi Tas yeah they are afraid of people rejecting tan skin during marriage
@Reeshi Tas yeah ikr Indians are like that sadly....btw don't u ever take those words to heart coz u are precious
@@yanjungrass715 no bro racist people are going to be racist it's not a cultural problem but a colonial problem. The british people really did a number on us.
You just need something to complain about
As an African American that bear video shocked me, never in my life have I seen something so……heart wrenching.
Fr
I lived in Mexico for 3 years and I would often hear how beautiful my fair skinned cousin was. While no one ever said that darker skin was ugly, no one ever said it was beautiful either, so as a kid I could only come to the conclusion that light skin is prettier than darker skin tones. I don't know if it's different now, Mexico definitely had an issue with colorism back then.
Y sigue siendo asi, yo soy mexicana e incluso entre mexicanos desprecian a los de tonalidades más oscuras, yo tengo familiares de tonalidad moreno claro y discriminan a los de color oscuro a los N siendo que ellos no son blancos y de ojos azules y así son muchos que no son blancos pero discriminan de igual manera, no te lo dirán a la cara pero te van a ignorar y no te van a voltear a ver y después van a criticarte fuerte cuando no estés presente te lo digo porque yo lo vivo a diario y también con lo del tema del peso igual critican a los que tienen sobrepeso y ellos están igual o te dicen "a tu edad yo estaba delgado/a" y muchas cosas así, es feo pero uno sencillamente tiene que ignorar todo eso para poder ser feliz
Yo same here
My husband is Mexican and I am black, we have the same skin tone and as someone who goes to Mexico every six months, there's people over there 2 times darker than me, they're beautiful❤
This is so crazy! Colorism exists everywhere in the world , so sad.
Also the Spanish she spoke sounds like she said, "There is poop in your ass"
yeah, I also couldn't understand what she said in the beginning. "Ana" or something like that(?)
that’s exactly what she said.☠️
I work as an English teacher in china, the mom of one of the kids I teach told her to drink a lot of water so that “her skin will be brighter” 🤡
@@Purrl1775 thats actually a classic "advice" from moms here in Malaysia as well. I dont know why people believe it tho.
@@isabellaguerrero9770 I feel she may have tried to say "una caca en el culo". But mispronounced una. So in english is roughly "one poop in the ass". Maybe better as "A shit in the ass"
"There's poop in your ass" would be "tienes caca en el culo" so it's close enough. We may never know.
Sometimes in India having dark skin can lead to a lot of social backlashes too. I remember hearing a story about how a girl wouldn't go into a rickshaw with her friend's sister because her friend's sister was "too black". Also, I knew that fair skin was the standard in India but I didn't know that they literally used people from different countries to model for Indian women.
That part with the Ukranian models absolutely blew my mind.
i saw that too
wait what? i mean i know there is this fair beauty standard here since when did people use people from different countries to model for indian women?
@@Unknown-mi9xd it was in the video. The model said she was from Ukraine. I think that clip came from a Vice video
Yeah ...i am i didn't meet someone like that till now in my life and i am happy i pretty much am ok with my skin colour..
I’m Chinese and my skin is tanned bc I love to go out and I always get called a foreigner by Chinese people
I’m half Chinese half Cambodian.
I never understood the desire for light skin, haha. My mom and sister are super light while my dad and I are jungle Asian brown.
But being born and raised in the states, a lot of white women love my skin colour here.
As a Chinese person who is currently living in the US, good for you that you love to go outside, I probably haven't seen sunlight in three years because of school, and ignore the negative people. I'm sure you're beautiful!
i wish i was chinese
I guess in other Countries your than is beauty
@@SomeAftermath"I never understood the desire for light skin". To ,"white women love my skin tone." Hmmm...
Thank you for including the Philippines 🇵🇭 in your video!
Finally, someone who acknowledges that other Asian countries also exist, lolll
I mean, he included only about 5 countries and only from south and east Asia....
I guess it's a start, but I thought he would actually go more into depth
I am an African American woman and I knew that there was colorism issues in Asia. But I didn't realize how bad it was. Great video on this topic aswell.
Pretty interesting how similar it is to colorism here with classism.
@@TheoCynical its usually tied to classism too and with white supremacy in colonised countries, its really sad, we should stop upholding these stuanch standards and just sell makeup as a way to express oneself like u know just an item like clothes for eg
I guess colorism is too specific word to be used only in the US
Colorism - that's about colors of the rainbow. What they have in Asia is deeply rooted Caste mentality. This isn't new. This has been going on for millennia.
Lighter skin tone was considered a part of beauty standard since Tang Dynasty, nothing to do with Whites at all. And in Chinese society, their light skin tone differs from White people's skin. In China pale skin tone is considered unhealthy, what they sought after is 白裡透紅, sorta translucent, pinkish & clear complexation. Northerners usually have lighter, clearer skin complexations due to geological and climate factors; whereas the Southerners tend to have darker complexations because most of them used to work in the rice fields.
As a filipina when I was a kid I was always adored for having a bright skin and didn't know why was it such a thing but now that I'm adult I realized i'm not white and I have tan skin. I love how my skin looks but people here always makes me feel bad about myself and complexion. It's so sad I can't even embrace my true color. And the fact that skin with lighter complexion is much prefer especially in jobs and how they treat you as a human being in general🙄
Very true. I’m Filipina and light skinned. But I’ve always heard my family and relative say “don’t play outside you’ll get dark” and they compliment light skinned people more
Like -_-
@@sakareeh Was very light skin before. san2 na ko pumupunta ngaun eh yun lumabas totong kulay ko as a filipina. I really love my skin but my folks and some of friends say they prefer my skin before or say "luh... umitim ka? Sayang ganda naman ng balat mo dati..." i'm like so ngayon di na? I don't want to white washed my skin cause I'm scared of chemicals entering and attacking my organs🥴 they should know better that the ingredients in the products they use has lots of mercury kaya nag iiba skin color nila. Anyways. Kung light skin ka sis be proud and out and enjoy your life!!!! ❤️
I'm also a Filipina, who uses a lot of Whitening Soaps and Lotion but no matter the amount of effort or products, my skin color always stay the same color and tone, and everytime we go to the beach I will never dip or swim into the ocean and always stay at the cottage/bungalow and I have always hated myself for the skin color that I was born to and still have, I always have the mentality that "I dont have any of those European feautures, the least thing that I can do to be beautiful is at least to have a fairer and lighter skin." And with all the Filipino actors and actresses on TV media, it even made me feel worse about myself, I have remebered a time that I asked my mom to buy any whitening soap but my mom buy some safeguard instead of being grateful, I in return throw a huge tantrum at her. And I was only just 12 years old at that time. Looking back I feel bad and guilty for throwing a fit infront of my mom and sad to my younger self who wanted to change her skin color so bad just solely at a very young and tender age even before I was 12. One of my best friend was scrolling through tiktok on her phone and I was watching along beside her, I have noticed most of the videos are Girls who already have white and fair skin (such as caucasian) and the skin color I have always desired and wanted. I see the girls on these videos feeling much more beautiful and confident after getting a tan, showing their results after tanning, showing tips of a perfect tan, how to tan etc² , and I was appalled and shock on what I have just saw, At first I was baffled (in some sort of way) why on earth they would want the skin tone that I have when I even want theirs. I went to youtube and was so very suprised that theres a lot of tanning tutorials (especially the ones without using a tanning bed) and there was a video reccomended to me on how the beauty standards of the west contradicts on most of in Asia side, and seeing these people who wants my skin tone and feautures even when I am here wanting theirs, I become a lil confident knowing that the people that I desired to what I want to have and look like wants what I have, though I'm not gonna lie that I still have the desire to at least have a lighter skin, since Im still living here in the Philippines, where Having fairer, lighter and pale skin is still privillent and is the top beauty standard(s) that somehow became the norm, and it can led you of having advantages and privileges in life. Which I think that its not really justified and fair because you are treating the person just solely on their skin color. And growing up to be ashamed of our Natural and beautiful skin color.
@@Kamotea_kyutie whaaaat? That's so sad😭 you were only 12 when you felt insecure about your skin? I on the other hand never felt to do so I had fair skin up to 13 yrs old like and when we moved I had different friends and they were more outgoing so we go where the sun was 🤣 and yes! the melatonin in us no matter what product you use will stay the same because our skin colors are already projected in our dna's we may be fair for a while but it won't last and when you stop using this products your skin will be even worse. That's true. In tiktok those filipina women became famous because they have eurocentric features and more white than regular filipinos like us. It is so toxic especially for younger viewers audience to feel bad about themselves. If I was back in my younger self I would say be proud of what you have and be happy. If we were on western countries like america? Everyone will be envious of our golden complexion. Tbh, beauty standards are the opposite of what a race have and it's so weird. I hope you stop using those bleaching soaps etc. and accept what skin color you have. That's very harmful for you body and can cause delayed menstruation or worse you can't bare a child anymore (though if you prefer to have any in the future your choice) because this skin bleaching attacks our cells and our organs. Even if they say it's 💯 non chemicals and it's from nature don't believe that. They put harmful substances in it🥴 I on the other hand only use moisturizers. Might as well sunscreen just to protect the barrier of my skin and not change it.
I think my society is better. One point only lighter skinned people where preferred to work in banks in my country but now darker skin tones are being accepted. It just shows society is changing little by little.
The glutathione drip shown in the video is becoming more and more ubiquitous in the Philippines offered by many beauty clinics. I mean, like anywhere in Asia, whitening products are ALWAYS popular and there are even additional like that one.
There are many races in asia. The proportion of whitening cosmetics in the korean cosmetics market is 5%. This is the same for the japanese cosmetics market. Far East Asians are not very interested in whitening.
@@sugarfree97 you mean ethnic groups?
@@augustuslunasol10thapostle ㅇㅇ
As a Filipina so glad to be living in Australia, they love tan skin here❤ But I wish they would love their fair skin too.
As an Indian, this white obsession shown by other Indians has always been embarrassing for me ... 💀💀💀
it's embarrasing cus we put ourselves down . like ew
Az a filipino I remember accidentally bleaching myself w/ bleach and after that IVE BEEN GETTING COMPLIMENTZ HERE AND THERE
The word krishna is a Sanskrit word for black or dark but also interpreted as attractive. So white being beautiful is dumb for Indians to believe
Bengali here and oml same😭 the slightest tan and my mum will say I look dirty
Ikr??
i'm indian and colourism is very deep rooted here. i developed social anxiety because of my skin color, the jokes and constant picking on your skin colour gets too much. for a long time i gave up even participating in anything because i believed i don't "look" smart enough. i myself had colourist beliefs as a child, i grew up with the idea that fair skin = beauty and always resented my looks. everyone around you pointing that out makes it even worse.
the indian dictionary of colorism has words such as Dusky, wheatish . its crazy
How unfair! I hope you are doing okay and prove to people that you are pretty and smart no matter your skin colour
Im so sorry that you have to go through that just know that you are beautiful and that there is something seriously wrong with them. Stay Strong!
Even though i was born and raised in America I've found that I have actually fallen into the colorism trap. I don't like going out in fear that I will tan and feel ugly. Weirdly enough I'm not entirely sure why I feel this way but i suspect it may be because of bollywood heroines and ig kpop.
How on earth could there be colorism in a nation of people who have naturally sun kissed skin?!!! IT'S CRAZY!!
Great video! I'm somewhat familiar with colourism in the USA and knew it existed in Asia but never had this kind of insight into it before. Cool to see places other than just Japan/China/Korea mentioned as well.
That "fair amd lovely" packet gave me goosebumps 💀
seeing kpop idols with completely normal pores, acne scars, and texture makes me feel so much better 😭 like as an ex-dancer and someone who still does really intense workouts i was always so confused how they never had acne from sweating under makeup so often
Okay but they are idol if they have normal pores, ance scars they cannot have many fans.
@@user-vv3ox6xd3t but why? We all have them, it's normal to have them. And for many it's not like it changes their appearance that much. It's dumb imo
My motto is that if you're not willing to have the same words repeated back to you then maybe should stay silent and humble yourself. And I understand idols especially will be held to higher expectations but even then people can be heartless when they don't get the visual they think they are owed.
Would you say it to your mother or your sister? Or someone you actually know and care about? The repercussions for not visually appealing to people who idolize you but don't care about your well being is just a selfish one. It's how people react to things they're not owed that shows character.
Treat others how you wish to be treated. And I can understand small criticisms but some people can be very nasty as if a person owes them everything they ever wished they could ever look like. Fans can the most demanding arrogant people. Being nice doesn't only apply to pretty people.
My mom asks me why I have such a bad skin, with acne. :( I don’t know why..
@@afunkylittleguy bc of toxic perfection
I'm very pale and people around me always are telling me I look see-through and I need to see the sun. I get bullied for my skintone, but at the same time, I see lots of girls getting bullied for their darker complexions. no one can win apparently.. we need to start letting people exist in their own bodies without judging it and we need to appreciate them. all skintones and bodies are beautiful, no exceptions !!
edited for clarification
Easier said than done, and I don't think it's even possble without a reset. It's not as bad in my country as other places, but hearing you're dark as a kid in a tone that makes it sound like a bad thing sucks. But ironically, being as pale as you isn't the ideal here either. Light, but not too light; dark, but not to dark. Humans are weird. Our ability to make non-factors matter is amazing. Imagine if cats acted like this.
@@sianais I entirely agree with you, which is where my "nobody can win" thing came from. I think just existing now is difficult because no matter what, people only want to be angry and point out things about each other. the way people have managed to demonize extremities in skin tone (both pale and dark, but especially dark) is wild. It's not easily attainable, but it would be nice if we could just exist without those non-factors being stressors. everyone is beautiful in their own skin and beauty standards refuse to let so many beautiful people actually *feel* beautiful, even tho they are.
its so strange bc every time i see people with unique skin I tend to be in awe. tbh society would be better if we were all cats
I'm european but in high school my name was corpse because I was pale and introvert and the teachers always asked me I am sick because I look so pale lmao my mom say I need tanning because too light skin not beautiful but I really don't care lol beauty standards really different everywhere
Fr I see people counterattacking the colourism against dark skin with colourism against light skin smh… like bro just let people’s skin be
Yes same. People always ask me, if I'm sick... I hate it, it's my skintone wtf. Why people think they can randomly interpret skintones from other people.
thanks for bringing up the philippine obsession with skin whitening. every time i look for skincare products almost everything is for whitening or brightening the complexion when i just want some damn moisturizer and deodorant
His voice is so calm and gentle!
This is also common in East Africa. My mom and aunties always buy skin bleaching creams and glamourize lighter skins and despise dark skin. My older sister is darker than me and my mum says she is not really attractive compared with lighter girls. It honestly exists everywhere, not just Asia.
But Dark skin is what makes East Africans attractive
@@mmc1227 that’s not the point tho..
What country in East Africa
@@eggybread7652 Yeah, I just thought I'd just tell someone they're beautiful.
@@Ruby-dc3wp Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi, south sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, google is free you know
As a Indian , the tv commercials for "fair and lovely" was very hilarious . At a very young age we've being brainwashed to think that being fair and light skinned meant everything. At that time I didn't know how toxic it was for the younger me . The commercials played a huge impact on the Indian society, as a result people would praise if a person is white and insult if the another one is darker . People don't realise how beauty standards are killing us slowly .
Yeah you're right, society never feel contended nor let others feel contended. These beauty standards are too much, I have seen so many people using ' fair and lovely ', it's fine if you are using it yourselves but they recommend it to other people as well. I got 2 packets of fair and lovely as birthday gift when I was around 9-10 years old and that lady told me that it's time I start using that, like seriously? this is what you're telling a child? But my mom and my family never let me use any of that type of products, they told me that I don't need it as my skin tone is perfect. We need to stop putting pressure on people to fit certain beauty standard, it's doing them only harm with almost no benefits.
and the fair(er) friends ALWAYS compare skintones with the darker ones...
Indians want to insult themselves? There are more dark skinned Indians than lighter ones.
Easy. All conscious people like u need to marry really dark people that u can find. At least three shades darker. Make darker babies. Once it becomes common practice, society will bend to ur will
But fair skin is beautiful
Thank you for your video, it was quite an eye opener ! I didn't know discrimination was so rampant in Asia because of skin color.
I think it was the best ever video that I watched on RUclips in 2024 it taught me how to be respectful. Thank you
As a tan Filipina, my family has always encouraged me to use brightening soap. I also used to use powder to make myself look lighter. I stopped using brightening soap and powder in recent years. I’m still learning to accept and love myself as I am.
Glad to hear that meanwhile in Sweden i see some people try to get tanned but just end up becoming orange lol
@@luluowq9827 😂
ey fellow filipina lagi ko itong sinasabi sa kanila I'm proud morena
Does it actually bleach your skin somehow or it just covers it with some lighter layer? Are there any side effects from using the brightening soap?
brightening and whitening soap are two different things btw. there's nothing wrong with wanting to get a brighter skin. it's usually for people who have dull skins (ppl like me)
Dark people trying to get lighter skin, light people trying to get darker skin.
Love who you are. Be true to yourself.
People want what they don’t have or need sadly
@@ellice4520This is true.
@@ellice4520yh but that's how the world work sadly
Straight hair people want curling hair etc
👍👍👍
Filipino here. I was always teased by my own relatives that I'm so dark as a result of me swimming in the beach or a pool for long periods of time as a kid. Usually on family vacations like those, my first agenda on the list is have fun and swim because I love swimming. But apparently my consequence is to be made fun of for getting so dark (there were times were I didn't get to wear sunblock or didn't wait long enough for the sunblock to dry before diving in). Eventually the sunburn goes away and I slowly go back to my real skintone. I still looked forward to swimming but I got conscious as a kid and begged my mom or grandma to buy me whitening soap. Imagine, a 10-12 year old using whitening soap. It was only when I grew up and became an adult I stopped caring so much whether I got too tan or dark.
Racism. Next question.
All people have it this is in human nature
@@A.D.798Racism again dark skinned people is the most common, even from dark skinned people themselves. Next question
Being Filipino, growing up I've always heard people say: "she's pretty but her skin is too dark." That always made me feel so insecure. I have darker skin and it took me years to embrace my natural skin color.
That's fucking awful. Flat out racism lmao
As a fellow Filipina I needed to see this comment. Thx for sharing! ❤
That’s extremely sad
Alot of us who come to the Philippines love dark skin. The darker the better for me.
Here in Mexico you can heard the same thing, people even said them about newborned babies
In my family, my grandfather was on a darker shade like my father... When I was a child, I refused to even give him a hug, because I was afraid that the colour will spread on to me. I got the idea from school because some of the kids told me that if you hug someone for a long time, we'll get the colour, so she hugs her mother all time to get her colour, I WAS SIX AND I STILL HAVE THAT MEMORY. My grandfather used to pick me up from school and this girl told others when we were in a group, that I'll be black soon.and that was the reason.when I refused to hug him, he asked me why and I told him that this is the reason. He laughed. I don't really remember how his face was back in then.i lost him when I was seven. I still regret for not hugging him.
That's the saddest things I've read today so far... where are you from btw?
@@danielvictor7455 India, and colourism here , is so dangerous..
@@illsaywhatifoundright i feel sorry 😔 for you I'm boy with dark skin colour people made fun for me call me kaalu and said i never get girlfriend becuz I'm dark hence ugly
@@BittuKumar-uf7er I know a lot of women who find dark colour attractive. Doesn't matter...our generation is becoming different , even if some of them are still rotten. Tbh , our dressing sense plays a huge role in how others see us . I feel having a great sense of fashion is now the greatest way of expressing ourselves, and has a huge impact in first impressions.
I'm so sorry, honey😥😢! What a "traumatic experience!" Children are "truly innocent!" In "some households" they get their "demeanor" from the parents and down the line! However, "the cycle must be broken"! Erase the "toxic ignorant hate"! Btw, because of my Bible-based belief( John 5:28,29), you will see your grandfather again. Not to Offend but to Comfort! Shine🐾🦊
Thanks for being a content creator. I really enjoy your humour
Seriously your videos are killing me😂😂
I can’t believe I didn’t know you before. I’m binging your videos so fast I don’t know what I’ll do when I finish catching up
i swear this vid came at the right time, as Black South African I've always been insecured about my complexion am literally 3toned. Arms, face lighter than other areas. Skin bleaching was an option for me to lighten darker areas. But i am afraid of side effects. I think am good being three toned!
Its not only an Asian thing but global phenomenon! Africa too, even white Africans, Indians or colored mixed race people turn to skin lightening to feel confident
yes you shouldn't bleach any of those parts...only go to the dermatologist to fix hyperpigmentation because they're safe dont go to alternative products
Yeah, ed just meant that it's a really common in Asia, not only in Asia. Btw, Indians are Asians too
I relate i hated being black i hated my race because of all the hardships and unfairness i got with it. But as i got older i realised that i am beautiful and we're all gonna die as one, despite the colours of our skin ☺
@@angel_qu3en As a dark skinned black female I hated being black as child and growing up in the UK surrounded by white kids and people, black people were almost pressured to self hate. There is a lot of insecurity in the white people and pale people. They want someone else to be worst of than themselves So if they wake up an feel bad you exist and they are not so bad, The amoundt of hate some white people wanted me to get when I went to SOuth Korea was ludicrous, But it back fired as ultimately people are not blind . Koreans, Japanese and Chinese tourists pre oandemic would not leave me alone. Because while you can say someone is UGLY for being dark and using a pale person instead does not make darke people ugly. It just means you HIDE them
Omw! This is so true. As a multi-racial nation,you'd think it would otherwise. We're literally known as the Rainbow nation, yet its so ironic to see the preference of light skin. All races should be embraced, as well as all skin tones💓
It’s crazy, because here in my town, I’m teased for being pale. Insults and comments like, ‘pale as a ghost’, ‘white like paper’, and whatnot have always been tossed my way. But if I go to a country where being pale is good, then I’d be praised. It doesn’t make sense and it isn’t fair. Beauty standards are different everywhere, that’s why everyone is beautiful, it’s not just an empty saying,
In my town, people will call you lazy if you don't have dark skin
unless you're actually ugly based on every culture's standards L0L
Yeah, that’s the struggle. If you’re born with fair skin, too bad, you’ll be hated. If you’re born with tan or just dark skin, you’ll be hated. There is no winning.
Dido for me. When I was in school there were white walls and there jokes that I'm so white I could blend in with them.
Fair skin always been the beauty standard the new trand of getting tanned isn't this common
I’m a black woman and I’m sorry for those who are not accepted in the own skin, regardless of what shade you are. People’s color is just a layer on the outside it’s how you represent yourself that shows who you really are! Come people let’s get it together ❤
I'm a black woman and I LOVE the skin I'm in, I've always been proud to be black, it's who I am. Hate me all you want 🙌🏾
I have a friend she brought along with her her daughter to her office. Her daughter has a darker complexion. One of my friend’s colleague said upon seeing her daughter “sinong bata ito? bakit maitim?” (who is this kid? why is she dark-skinned?). My friend heard it and got so angry.
And I think then child developed an “inferiority complex”. She said that when she grows up she wants to have a lighter complexion. But then I as her “tita” I make sure that she’s beautiful regardless of her skin color.
the child heard everything ?
I also have an inferiority complex. I've always wanted a lighter, skin, eye, and hair color, but I instead have darker colors. Definitely does mess with your life. You don't feel like yourself. You want to be someone else so bad.
I have so many friends who the same way of thinking! They looks handsome and beautiful with their skin too. One of my friends dreamt about going to Manila so their skin will get lighter and it just made me cringe and told them that they looked fine.
@@Silvia.Araujo Just so you know, you’re definitely perfect already! Other people’s opinions and hurtful comments definitely messes with you, and I’m so sorry for you to go through those things and met those shitty people, but they definitely aren’t right!
My mom has very light skin compared to me since my dad is quite dark skinned. Bruh I see people treating me and my mom differently so many times. It hurts but I just have to deal with it.
i’m native from canada and for natives i feel like growing up, kids get made fun of for being pale “looking white” but then the darker kids will also get made fun of for looking “burnt” or “black”. i’ve seen native adults share colourist memes online before as well. it’s very fucked. colourism is in so many poc communities and it starts so early, it’s so sad.
but if ur a pale native in canada, you have closer proximity to whiteness.. so then u get treated better by the predominant white society, you’re more likely to be “accepted” but also you have to have it or at least put on ur “white voice” or they stare at u in a different way 😁👍🏻
omggg!!!! i’m first nation as well and i agree. the pale natives definitely get teased but they also get treated a lot better. i remember seeing this post specifically being shared talking abt how “dark natives aren’t as lucky bc they look burnt during the summer” n it made me so uncomfortable how our people are perpetrating the same hate we complain abt
I always get ppl to act chocked to see my white legs, then telling me to gonin the sun because i reflect sunlight.. lately I have been starting to feel a bit more annoyed that people want to tell me to go lay in the sun. It will make me burn within 10 minutes if I don't use sunprotector and aside from that skincancer and wrinkly skin when you get older isn't something I wish to achieve in my life.
I’m a rlly pale Latina and EVERYONE ALWAYS BOTHERS ME TELLING ME TO TAN and then they see a tan/black person and look at them badly (I know bcs family lol)
ayyyee a fellow native
Here in Northern Canada, everybody is trying to be tanned (not race bait orange, just natural tan) its a flex that you have time off in summer to spend outside
I appreciate your videos because sometimes I need something to bring me back to reality and say it's okay to be you.
I’m half Filipino and half Norwegian. The entire time I grew up I always got compliments from Norwegians for being naturally “tan”, and still to this day I get told that I’ve got the perfect colour, but mostly from non-white people. It was a huge culture shock when I went to the Philippines and they were all like “ah you’re so pale, how nice.”
When I was still in the Philippines I am ashamed of my color because in the Philippines they call my color "maitim" when in fact it's brown not black. Now that I am here in Europe I am very proud of my skin colour. They call it sunkissed skin and very expensive skin colour😉
I'm an Half Asian too (German/Thai) and I also experienced the clashing of two contrary beauty standards. White ppl complimented when I was tanned and Thai ppl admired when I was fair... And yeah, I was obsessed with pale skin when I was younger as I tanned so easily and wanted to be like the other kids in Germany.
@@phoenixchi9725 God loves you. Romans 8:38-39.
@@phoenixchi9725 O think I should go to Europe 😂
Getting that skin is really hard you know
Growing up in the early 2000s in Italy, EVERYONE wanted the "tanning bed" look (while simoultaneously being racist to anyone who wasn't white or Italian lol you had to be tan but god forbid you were from another ethnicity), and not only it was galaxies away from their actual skintone - it was also orange af 😵I have always been white as a ghost and I was teased for that. Beauty standards are stupid and everyone always want what they don't have
Yes, I read somewhere some years ago that a white person with a tan is seen as just that - a white person with a tan. But there's always heavier prejudices when it comes to dark-skinned POC.
Which is why I personally think the whole "dark skins want to lighten and light skins want to darken" observation tends to oversimplify the issue. Don't get me wrong, I'm not invalidating light-skinned people's experience of being told they look sick and should get some sun, but they're just not the same, and definitely not as simple as it's laid out to be.
@@xth6738 Absolutely! I agree on everything and while being teased about paleness is simply annoying, being discriminated for being of another ethnicity besides white is on a whole another level and it's a huge social issue. I would never compare my experience to POC's experience, I hope my comment doesn't sound like I'm trying to imply that 😵
Ikr? It again as you said, anyone from other ethnicities would be ridiculed which makes no sense! You want a tan skin but also from the white race? Damn that's kinda sad (a similar beauty standard is there in east asia)
Grew up in Italy here, as well (provincia di Olbia-Tempio e poi in provincia di Latina), and never have my Ivorian and Ghanaian friends been ridiculed for their skin color. This was in the 1980s and 1990s and up until 2002. The tanning obsession in Italy goes back to the 1950s. Italy has racism, but who doesn’t? As a white European, I’ve been discriminated in places where whites represent a majority; it happens to everyone everywhere, and folks of color deserve no special place, unless you think melanin is more important than merit. Everyone’s experiences are equally as valid; black, white, or brown.
@@auryylmao no i totally agree with you. Receiving comments here and there is one thing but it is not comparable to the actual social discrimination in some countries.
I’m puerto rican and i am quite pale and growing up i always got told i needed to tan and get my skin darker its so wild that the opposite is true some places great video!
I love my color. Love it. I can’t imagine it any other way. I grew up in an all white community and felt completely comfortable with my color but my appreciation for it has grown exponentially as an adult. Plus people are shocked when i tell them my age.
I naturally have rather fair skin (I'm Chinese) and I'm definitely lighter than everyone else in my family.
I was born and raised in Canada and whenever I visit extended family in Hong Kong, they treat me like some kind of princess because I'm "Western" but also conform to their beauty standards of having super light skin, but then turn around and criticize my cousins about how they should be "as light as me" and it's SUPER uncomfortable.
It’s really infuriating to be in that sort of situation. But I’m glad that I’m able to get mad because it means I’m aware and can make sure I don’t spread that toxic bs to others. Imagine being the type of person holds the fact that their skin is light over others and makes it a point and center focus of their life yikes
@@hhh1234h Yeah.. It's really sad to see. I do make it a point to try to tell them that skin colour doesn't really matter, but I can't really tell if what I say gets through. Change takes time.
It’s just culture difference, in China we admire whiteness , for some even worship it, we see white people as superior due to century of humiliation
Just make sure you tell your cousin you don’t feel the way they do.
That’s great and all, but when you’re so pale that you can see every vessel in your body, you’re running into looking like a corpse territory.
As an Asian with medium skin tone I can say that the amount of times I've been told use skin whitening products to look prettier just makes my heart shatter! I have always been confident about my skin tone and love it but the people around me to them it's always not enough
Same..
Don't listen to them. God made you beautiful
I've experienced the opposite bullshit as a relatively pale skinned white dude in Europe a few years ago. I've never understood this. Also many people around me were obsessed with getting a tan back in high school. Especially girls.
I also remember reading an article where they rated Hugh Jackman's body a 9/10 because he was too pale to be a 10/10.
Imagine telling a black or brown person that they would look better if they weren't that dark. Nonsense.
@@valentinvas6454 world doesn't lets us live in peace! They always have a problem
It’s crazy, I’m sorry you’ve dealt with that. I’m very pale, and my ex husband used to insist I tan, buying me tanning and constantly reminding me to not “look sick”. It’s crazy to me how skin tone is always wrong to some people. God made everyone unique and beautiful, how can we not marvel at it? We are in a living museum of art, I’m just amazed at every different face I see, amazing!
Hii one thing you said at the beginning was really accurate, so i’m asian too but in the middle east part and this is still a very big problem, not as big as people refusing to give you a job because your skin is darker than others(im sure it’s happened many times but it’s not as common) but i was lowkey bullied by the people around me for having a darker skin, i’m glad people don’t go as far as using dangerous toxic products or doing the iu thing(maybe because the technology isn’t there yet) but they still try their best to be or at least look pale. Oh i wish you’d dive deeper into this topic because there’s always more horrifying things to cover.
I am an Indian and I can confirm that people are obsessed with white skin. For example people say my brother ugly just because he is a bit darker than me on the other hand same people say I am good looking just because I have lighter skin tone compare to my brother ,even if my brother have better facial features that me because our skin tone differ due to the difference in my mother and father skin tone. you are not considered pretty as long as you don't have a fair skin
So I’m Indian (Southern), and seeing all these comments from fellow Indians about how colorism is a problem and has such a negative impact actually gives me hope that maybe, even if it takes a few generations, there will be a cultural reset. It seems the youth are more open-minded and logical and just generally aware that whitening creams won’t change the concentration of melanin in your body. “Beauty standard” is a useless social construct since it changes wherever you go, which just ultimately means there are different ideas of beauty and therefore we’re all considered beautiful *somewhere.* Everyone is beautiful to *someone,* not *everyone* just by nature of people having different conceptions of beauty. No one will ever agree universally on what physical traits are considered beautiful.
Unilever plc is a British multinational. Hindustan Unilever which sells Fair and lovely (now glow and lovely) is a subsidiary of Unilever. It markets fairness products using indian subsidiary in many countries even as far as Africa. This company started here in 1933 and soon after independence started selling fair and lovely with ads that told women they should use it to get light skin or they won't be married. Then in recent decades they moved on to saying they need it to get job... Only India could be so clueless that they kept being told their skin was not good enough and bought stuff from a British subsidiary after throwing the British out...
1000 years of foreign rule has killed the sensitivity to such BS to a great extent. People want to look like whom they perceive as winners.. While they use Indian subsidiary to feed the same skin colour racism to rest of the world too. If they sold it directly from British brand it would make people notice it sooner.
@@thehawkseye3412 not only British bet the turkic/islamic invasion was too the same frowned upon having a black skin before that time lot of texts are available calling black skin to be beautiful.
It took my friend with dark complexion a long time to see that all the compliments I gave her for her gorgeous features were genuine and not taunts :(
Yeah it's gonna take atleast 3 generations to get that 💩 thought that tan is bad and fair is good out of our indian heads
@@somethingcreativeprobably5160 It’s wrong to say so but talent does shine. My friends from south, some of whom are quite dark compared to average skin tone, are actually doing quite well career wise. Not that they are models or actors. But they work in top companies like google, walmart, etc in India. So yeah, if you got talent it will not affect your chances in anyway, even in India.
P.S and when when you work in an mnc you’ll have many suitors too.
I really don’t understand why people hate darker skin tones… we need to love ourselves and our neighbors, who cares what race or ethnicity they are. This is just crazy.
Colonialism
I don’t know man, it’s been around much longer. But stop complaining and just love yourself.
@@devashrijoshi9079 It's far deeper than that
for me, having a dark skin tone is an advantage, means that blemishes and dark spots will not be so noticable, white skin is more sensitive than darker skin and it takes a lot of effort to maintain fairness when you live in tropical country like india
@@qieenalubya Not to mention that people with fairer skin tend to show signs of aging a lot faster than those with darker skin
This was super informative, thank you!! ❤
I am black and I love the commercial with the black bear. “ are you ok my daughter”😂😂😂😂 crazy
As a Filipino, I can attest that skin whitening soaps are everywhere in the Philippines. It's easy to say ' love/embrace your skin' but when you get made fun of and looked down for your brown complexion, it's easier to see why people are obsessed with lightening their skin including me before I embraced my brown skin.
I've seen a lot of Filipina with white faces and beatiful tan skin and it's always a bit disturbing, especially because some of these are people i would consider very self confident
In Indonesia too. In here whitening soap are everywhere
As a black woman i don't hate my skin ,I hate how society treat me and judge me for it , I always thank God for blessing me with this melanin 🙏🏿 we need to stop bleaching our skin
My OWN family holds a higher regard for people with fairer skin and I have quite a "tan" skin tone with the country I'm from and honestly I'm so embarrassed to even talk abt skin tones around them. I just don't understand how someone can treat someone different and act superior just because of a chemical or pigment in their skin?? IDK WHAT THEY WANT US TO DO?? Like we were born like this. Do we crawl back into our mother's wombs?? It is so irritating. I have resorted to not caring if anyone says anything abt my skin tone and providing common sense to people who don't have it, including my family whenever they are prejudice against people who literally aren't all the same skin colour. I find it beautiful that we are born with different skin colours and have even heard people's stories of the discrimination that they have encountered in their lives and tbh it is so heartbreaking.
The problem really goes both ways depending on who it is you're around and where you live which way you'll experience. I got picked on for the opposite where I lived in America, made to feel like I looked like a dead person/ghost/etc and it made me very self-conscious especially in middle school, but you just gotta learn on your own to love yourself however the way you are, not care about other's perceptions. That's the best advice anyone can take to heart!
why are blacks people so racist towards indians, asians, whites? Feeling of inferiority?
You know that a god didn’t give you skin color or anything, it was genetics lol
@@idontreadorreply God made u lol so yes he did if u dont think so just respect her beliefs
5:22 did she just said "prevent melanin production " ?!!!
I think people start to ignore their education alot
As a Filipino, my skin is lighter but tans dark incredibly quick - 30 minutes of sun exposure can give me a noticeable sock tan. A 5 hour hike (with no sunscreen) once turned me at least 8 shades darker. Definitely was told to stay out of the sun, probably right out of the womb. With a beauty salon as a family business on my mother's side, I was familiar with their skin whitening products - despite leaving the Philippines at the age of 4. I thought it was just a normal thing, just accepted it as the way the world works. Somehow it made perfect sense that my darkened, sun-kissed skin was not preferable to my lighter skintone.
After learning more about our history in the Philippines, I think it's important to note that internalized colonialism plays a huge factor here - and likely India and every other country colonized by European or North American nations. For centuries and multiple generations the social ladder constituted of white people at the top. Darker skin was openly ridiculed by those in power. The implied racial/social hierarchy combined with the lived experiences of feeling inferior, lead the (middle-class and up) people of these countries to seek out ways to become more like the wealthy for themselves. And of course, the beauty industry sees this clearly and capitalizes on it, evidently poisoning people in the process.
I can walk around a city block and get a tan too. Probably from my grandma that was American Indian. Her sister was more dusky dark than her. My mother medium. My sister is extremely pale compared to me. I teased her looking ghostly and the mailman was her father when young. But kids will be kids. Must be a genetic thing on my mother's side. Siblings different shades. People thought I was Mexican or Italian after spending most my time outside😂 growing up.
In the US, white people want to tan. Strange to me why someone would want to go lighter if the stuff is possibly dangerous.
My jaw DROPPED when Ms. Thang was doing blackface in the family photo.
I’m black so I’m used to hearing some nasty things about my skin tone, but the thing that upsets me is that it’s other black people saying it. Someone can be a shade lighter than you and they can hit you with a “darkie” or the classic “field slave” to make themselves seem better than you because they’re lighter. And don’t get me started on the “team lightskin vs. team darkskin” debate.
you're not the only race that has that has a skin tone, plz say 'brown' as it is the more appropriate term than 'black'. I as a native American (who's also brown) am saying this with the utmost respect and fact that there are poc everywhere, every race, every continent. And alot of ppl with lighter skin can tan under the sun. Plz keep that in mind also too, thank you.
@@crazysmall.artist They were doing *blackface* though, specifically about black people this time. However the concept affects all brown-skinned people
I think it is pretty safe to discount black people who call you "field slave" for being darker, because that is an insane amount of internalized racism. Heavy emphasis on insane. It's like they aren't even consciously registering what they are saying. Like they don't understand that house slaves were the result of rape, and that no matter if you worked in the field or house you still both came from the people who didn't die on the long travel on the slave ships from any of the many horrors that were done to the slaves during nor after. To call you a "field slave" is directly to call themselves "house slaves" as if the whole slavery wasn't about surviving the cruelty of the vile slave masters. They might as well be kissing the feet of slave master descendants and calling them their "Superiors" when they actively invoke the slavery system to put their peers down. I'm sorry for ranting so much but this is incredibly upsetting and aggravating.
Yeah... the blackface was horrifying.
It's so sad that POC have to deal with colorism within their own communities. ;-;
@@crazysmall.artist she is talking about black people what the he'l are you talking about
I don’t know why Kpop changed so drastically from even just 2010 to now they use to be very naturally dark and have changed to super “white” and most the time the filters they use on the cameras make them look gray instead.
I have tried “brighteners” and liked the look a lot but I could not go outside at all without burning, even with sunscreen I would burn so badly that I stopped using the products because it’s not worth cancer.
Honestly ? Good for you 😁 Glad you can see your true beauty
when I was in preschool, first-generation kpop idols started to debut.
and I remember those music videos are using a strong light setting, It was so bright I almost can't see their noses lol
I think the pale skin thing is always in the culture but each era has different ways.
U should not use it during daytime only night i think.
@@SongDaYeong the thing with 1st gen idols is, the camera lighting made their noses literally disappear, but when they were on music shows or TV, you saw them real. For example, Lee Hyo-ri and Ock Joo-hyun (from Fin.K.L.) were tanned and more musculous/heavily buikt than average respectively, and yet, both were accepted and respected. Yoon Mirae, heck, the entirety of Uptown, as well as Tashannie, enjoyed tremendous success despite being "미국풍", either korean-american or mixed-race Korean. Heck, it was even fashionable to look "foreign", which is why Chakra even got to debut (the whole "Indian concept" is a mess though... but it brought us Hwangbo so yeah one good thing)
The 2000s had an entire generation of women rock their natural skin tone out on TV. You had shades from Yoon Mirae, Chae Yeon, Lexy, Big Mama, to Lee Sooyoung, Byul, Yoon Eunhye and many more.
@@shruthakeerthi4559 I think you misunderstood my comment.
I'm kinda agreeing with you but the point is each era has a different kind of pale skin thing.
I know those people are very popular but did they become the new standard or the majority? No.
just each generation has a different trend. these 'fashion styles' always come and go circle around.
plus I think current advanced technology made this brightened skin thing to a more advanced level. In the old days they didn't have many choices, you know lolol
Growing up in PH with a tanned skin and having sarcastic friends around, I was once guided to feel like shit being brown.
Thank goodness I am allergic to bleach, saved me for suffering skin damage. I never had problems with pimples and scarring either. Thing is, don't let others dictate you on how you should look and live your life. You'll be miserable if you always listen to negative opinions.
As a Sri Lankan, I'm proud of my country. Here, no one is going to compare or insult anyone because of their skin colour.😊😊😊❤
😅all are dark bro that's why if there are light skin available then they will prefer them in india north indians have fair skin that's why in north fair skin is must
In anime characters are light on purpose, there's lots of stereotypes when a character is introduced with slightly darker skin tone, it's sad
It’s sad that darker skin is short hand for crazy, wild and sexual.
This!
@@hhh1234h I was pretty happy about Bleach having a darker skinned character who wasn't as brash as several of the really pale characters, when it started airing an eternity ago.
VERY true and this is talked about so little. darker anime characters are almost _always_ racially coded.
@@Call-me-Al yes I was thinking about Bleach as well! The Black character (I forgot her name) was really cool and important too. She was no villain or stereotypical Black person. And not to forgot all of the Black people in Naruto Shippuuden. That gave me a little hope when it came to anime
I was light-skinned as a child and I remember being praised as a "beauty". When I started getting into sports, my skin got much much darker and that's when people started treating me so badly. People told me it's a "waste" that I got darker and it messed me up for a long time.
It wasn't until I vacationed in California where I got called pretty for just being my dark-skinned self that I felt so weird, I never got called pretty for years until I visited. I still think about that and how much I missed out on, that I'm acutally not that bad looking elsewhere.
My skin is a little fair I am not so tanned but still my family members call me sometime black girl they are so much white it's so sad from early teen age I am going through this now I am not so much confident person this change my mindset
That much at that time I thought only fair person are good and beautiful and very lucky rest tan or dark skin person are most unlucky person and they have not to be born in this society 😢😔
It really depends on where you live what you'll experience will be. I got picked on for the opposite where I lived in America, made to feel like I looked like a dead person/ghost/etc and it made me very self-conscious especially in middle school, but you just gotta learn on your own to love yourself however the way you are, not care about other's perceptions. That's the best advice anyone can take to heart!
California people enjoy darker skin.
I was born and raised in California and darker skin is more common here. I am very light skinned and never had complaints over it but have encountered people who fetishize it or stare at me. It seems like when someone with darker skin wears shorts or crop top, it's normal and not considered inappropriate here, but when I do it, it becomes sexualized immediately.
As a dark skin black american person, I am mortified and this self hatred is pathetic. Love yourself and skin tone. Reject white supremacy ideals.
Me watching this as a black woman in Africa comfortably sipping my evening Tea wondering whats the obsession with fair skin/pale/white skin whilst the end game is the same. Death.
😂 cheers mate
My father is extremely dark and Asian. I always felt bad his whole life he was always judged negatively from asians or white people mostly... he said only place he ever felt accepted was Hawaii 😔
My mom asked us kids if we wanted to erase our freckles. My older brother said yes. I said no. My mom used Buttermilk on my brother's face and erased his freckles. I pray to God that she never did it to me as a baby. I love being me freckles and a great tan in the summer.
My mom said women on her mom's side bleached their skin with buttermilk to Hide the Native American admixtures during the great Genocide of the Native American People.
I love being culturally mixed.
Native American, Melungeon, European, Scandinavian and Middle Eastern from the Colonial Era America.
I will Never Apologize for being Against Genocide.
My cheeks bones and beautiful summer tan means that they couldn't kill my Ancestors.
How does that work?
Nice self-promotion scrip you got there lady. the question is: Who really cares?
Curious, but there MUST be one society somewhere in the world where darker skin is preferred right?
I grew up in France with very pale skin and was bullied constantly about it, being called a vampire, goth, morticia... Over here, being tanned means being rich and healthy... At one point I used multiple tanning cream to get warmer. When Asian celebrities got trendy, people gave me a break. My bullies' skin is so damaged right now, it's ridiculous... And sad really.
I'm sorry that happened to you. In my country people are obsessed with witeness but at the same time pale skin can be considered "unhealthy " sometimes
Being pale is an Asian standard. Asians want to look white, not European
Here too, I used to have a tanned skin colour but recently I started to get a pale skin (idk why), so everyone is telling me I look bad or sick
I think for those of us born in many changing beauty standards kind of learned early how silly and constantly changing they are. When I was a kid I got bullied for my darker complexion, because I grew up in a town where people were just very pale. By the time I got to my teens being tanned was super popular and everyone would ask to compare with me to keep track of their tanning progress lol Currently the beauty standard is a bit mixed so Im glad, I wish we see a lot of diversity in it in the future.
btw I experienced the same when it comes to body type, when I was younger I got a lot of crap and nasty comments for being skinny, because the beauty standard back then was Britney, shakira etc, a bit thicked on the hips and thighs. Then I had a period when I got shitty comments for not being skinny enough because we had that whole "how skinny can you get" era in the late 2000s. Now were back to some weird version of "slim thick".
@@happyteer1314 Sry for spam, my skin and hair got lighter with age too. No idea why, it happens. But sometimes it can be a bit due to a lack of sunlight. I know I still look different when I get some sun vs. when I dont, where I do end up looking kinda sickly pale. I can still be paler than I used to be as a kid, but for some reason it does look different. Looking back I looked really sickly during quarantine times due to lack of sun exposure.
As someone who lives in Centro America, "white = beauty" is literally engraved into people's minds, having a different skin tone is associated with poverty or other racist stereotypes. Latin America is sadly like this and it's so normalized where tiktok shows people with similar skin tones as mine (more tan) using whitening products and the comments encouraging it. Many comments include stuff like "they went from mexican to mexican premium" ☹️ Honestly sometimes it makes me insecure, even a friend of mine says she wishes she was white and wants a rhinoplasty to change her nose and i know its to fit the Eurocentric beauty standard 😒 many also make fun of people with indigenous people even using it as an insult to relate it to being dumb/poor.
Others having internalized racism making them feel bad about something they can't control is so devastating
Yeah I come from a Latin American country where is normal to have all skin shades and tones and now live in a country where racist people say that we , “gente con piel de color cartón” should leave -.- you can never win with these people
@@Mygurlist "color llanta, color mole" yep I've seen shit like that as well 😭 and they defend the colorism with their lives
Colorism in latin america is everywhere. I’ve had whiter latinos told me I was way too dark or called me la india maria
I’m from Peru so u can imagine the amount of racist “jokes” that are said, but i find saddening the fact that most countries in Latin America often see peruvians as ugly bc of the skin color and use peruvians as the standard of ugly in their countries when literally all of us have similar skin shades and colors, i hope it can be changed bc it’s really damaging for all of us :(
My family is from several Central American countries and it's crazy - to the point where even some of the indigenous ppl think they are white....like my tias from El Salvador and Guatemala - they are indigenous but my dad's family is Afro-Panameno and even they consider my Mexican mom who is mostly indigenous and my tias white - to them anyone with "clear" skin is white. It's the same in Brasil - soooooo crazeeeee
I'm German and have extremely light skin (way lighter than the rest of my family, I've probably some recessive albino genes), and I often got mocked for being so pale. Some people even told me that I need to get a tan, because being so white couldn't be healthy. I refused, because exposing my melatonin-lacking skin to UV is what isn't healthy. I need to be very careful in spring and summer as well, because I got sunburned often as a child. I'm okay with my looks now, but I was ashamed of my paleness when I was a teen.
This episode is sooooo relevant 🤷🏽♀️💀🤧
Skin bleaching is so normalized in Thailand that it's difficult to buy sunscreen and facial washes that don't contain whitening chemicals. And drinks and candy that contain gluta (glutathione) are available at every convenience store.
This so much. In Malaysia, Anytime I wanna get any sunscreen or deodorant, it's difficult to find one that doesn't also advertise themselves as "whitening".
oh my gosh yeah! when i lived there for a bit it was easier to ship non-bleaching products to me from overseas than find anything without bleaching no matter what store i went to. i also remember you could get these small packs of gluta cream at all the 7-11s for like 50 baht too! Even products that aren’t explicitly advertising it still have bleaching agents in their ingredients, which makes it really difficult for people to truly know what they are getting, especially if they don’t know Thai
You can 100% buy sunscreen and facial washes without whitening chemicals without problems...I did it.
Wait there are drinks and candy that contain glutathione? 😲 Is it safe to ingest such things
@@fuzzydays5699 why would you even want armpits whiter than the rest of your body..? 💀
When I was in university I met a girl from Hong Kong. She wanted me to help her with a text she was writing in English to a guy she met on campus (I didn't know him). She showed me the text. Before signing her name at the end of it she had written "Stay white." I told her she probably shouldn't write that. She said she was referring to his skin. I told her again she shouldn't write that and tried to explain that that would not considered a nice thing to say in Canada.
Lol
Omg did she remove it??
@@florencembah2626 I think so, but I'm not sure she fully understood why.
Hahaha, idk why but this made me laugh so much.
Lmao cry
thank you for sharing this .. its a very big problem, in india , when went for the first time,, I noticed nearly all commercials were for skin whitening products.. .. making people with beautiful skin colour ashamed ro give them a complex. because of the media, entertainment industry it became a problem. of course this" fair is beautiful" and dark is ugly did not start last century ... from time its been about and funny enough its all about what men like..lol... no surprise there!🙊 seriously though, I have brown skin and very proud to of it... then my nightmare happened.. 14 yrs ago I started to get vitiligo and because it was not treated in time it spread rapidly.. so I have white patches all over my body. for years I did not like to leave the house. because it was over my face. then I started to use make up to hide the patches on my face... I became more confident and then accepted the change. from my neck down I no longer hide. but my face I still do put make up on. as I did not grown up with the condition at the age I got it ( in my 50's) its hard to accept. I would definitely not like to be white. I love my colour. and you woman/men out there , be proud of your skin tone.
My country Malaysia is also a victim of this ‘white is beautiful, dark skin is ugly’. I am more to light medium, so I am more of in between. If anyone talks to me about trying on treatments to get fairer skin, I just shut them down immediately. Sometimes I get beautician that talks about how bad dark skin is so if I do this or that treatment, I’d get milk skin. I just give them a raised eyebrow or sometimes I’d tell them there is absolutely nothing wrong with skin tone of any shades.Stop telling people to go lighter!
I hope they find beauty in darker skin.
I'm from poland . Everyone, especially the boys, made fun of me because I'm too white. In Europe, white is ugly. Everyone wants to be dark
@@ewagierlak7842 but not too dark either, because they are racist against black people too! It's sad that you can't be different. I think people who make fun of you for being too dark or too light are insecure about their appearance.
That is sad to hear,having dark skin is better for living in a hot country like Malaysia yet they hate dark skin tone
FOR REAL. You'd think being in a country with diverse skin colour from Indian, Chinese and malay would make them less hypocritical of people skin color but NOPE. Malay, Chinese, Indian all have the same "white skin = beautiful" beauty standard.
Kinda f me up as a child because I got my father "tan malay skin" meanwhile my brother go the "white Chinese skin" from my mother. My mother was half Chinese and half malay so she got really upset when I didn't got her "Chinese white skin" (especially for being the only girl)
I am Chinese, and I have darker skin than other Chinese, while my grandparents have very fair skin (like paper white). When I was a kid, my grandma would laugh and say that I was like a little black briquette, but it didn't matter because dark skin means healthier than others. So I never feel inferior. I think it really depends on family support.
Love to grandma :) I have freckles, and so many people tried to put down my freckles, but I'd been taught by my grandma that every spot on my skin was a kiss from the sun. Grandmas can be everything.
Darker skin ages better too. So we win
@@dondieseliman654 all colors are beautiful, it is not a matter of winning
Promise u chinese people ALL will turn dark exposed to the sun, its natural procedure. Even blond people from north europe do, and they are nordic folks. No exception but albinos..
Whose family support did you have? It doesn't sound like your grandmother was very supportive, or helpful!!! Glad that you found some people who are far more understanding----b/c certain words, even "jokes", esp. from family and peeers, , can completely destroy one's self-esteem!
It is so sad that people don’t love who they are and worry about other people not loving their skin. I am brown skin and either people want to be like use or hate us, which is crazy. Whether people love me or not, I think I am beautiful in my skin. Just love yourself.
This is so scary and weird. I knew that many K-drama actors seem to prefer a lighter skin tone, but for some reason I always thought that it was because they wanted to stay healthy and stay out the sun not to be exposed to sunlight and radiation. And also not to have too many tanning streaks to cover up when filming. 😉
But after seeing this…😮😱
And what’s even weirder is that in Europe it’s the often the opposite. Being tanned is sometimes a measurement of being successful. It means you’re rich enough to have the money and time to go on holiday trips.
As you mentioned, it’s strange how so many always seem to want the opposite of what they have. Confusing really…🤔😕
Btw, interesting video. Thanks for sharing.
What I’ve noticed in kpop is how common colorism is, and in addition to that, how fans love to say that it’s not that serious. That fair skin is “just a beauty standard”. And that “they just don’t want to get skin cancer from tanning too much” But it is so much more than that. Artificially lightening your skin can/will also lead to skin cancer. They just love defending colorism.
Colorism should be taken more seriously bc it is extremely toxic and harmful.
And while I can’t put all of the blame on the idols themselves, people need to understand that the platform these idols have is massive, and they have a LOT of influence. Making colorist comments is very irresponsible. Even if the ideology is ingrained.
I think the fans don't speak it because the majority of those fans are not Asian or Korean. The who crowd say don't speak over others so in this situation they don't be hypocrites and they stay quiet because this isn't for them to talk about. The idols themselves are very hard to blame because of how ingrained these beauty standards are in society and culture, that it's second nature, it's like telling someone breathing is wrong, you do it every second without a thought, so suddenly being told to stop will seem alien to them. People need to consider other people's perspective and see the world through their shoes, quite often people live an entirely different life than you do
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we cannot reduce everything to cultural relativism though. Just because something is a part of someone else's culture doesn't mean its not to be subjected to criticism and is not problematic. The fact is in East Asia colorism is so prevalent and normalised it is ingrained in them by years of conditioning so it it will be extremely hard and it will take probably years for cultural norms to change.
@@ElshiBumcfksz waay longer than that maybe a century or two our cultures in Asia are very very stubborn and resistant to change
@@ElshiBumcfksz 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 EXACTLY my point. I'm from India(Asian country as well) and we have so much bs traditions in name of culture that are straight up misogynistic and insensitive to a large group of the society. Thankfully many of these are changing now. You cannot justify a bad influence and action by saying "it's culture" like these kpop Stans will defend their idols to no extent. I'm sorry but they are the ones with huge influence and maybe they can throw some shade on this colourist behaviour of mass as well?
Something I've noticed too is fanbases literally going in and editing their favs' skin tone to make it whiter and it's crazy when you look at a picture like that and then look at a non edited picture!
I'm an army (BTS fan) and i used to see this alott especially with V and Rm even though they're not dark they just have more of a honey skin complexion, I've seen people even edit suga that way who's extremely fair with no editing 💀
Although whitewashing has declined allot in the last 4 to 5 years and the fandom actually praises their natural complexions now some people still do it and it's more prominent in other groups and the message that sends to fans really upsets me ngl
Historically, Europe used to do this as well, though only the higher class did it. Their whitening products were just straight up lead.
Tanned mean lower class, tan means nowaday you don´t have mony for sunny vacation it´s just sick .
Your voice is very soothing to me for some reason.
The black bear and white bear add is wild. As a black person, it kinda hurts. The fact that whiter skin means higher chance to have a better life is true and hurtful. Am I the only one who laughed slightly when I learned the models weren't even indians?
As a rather pale person, who gets sunburned quite easily, I really do not want to imagine how bad chemically lightened skin must react to sunlight 😭 it’s such a risk for your health, it breaks my heart that so so many people are pressured in changing to fit the general opinion of a society.
+ eczema...
Same. I usually burn before I tan 😂
being dark is ugly we bleach to be good model citizen !
Skin lightening in Africa is even wilder to see because people look so strange a lot of the time because of how extreme the lightening is. Some lightening or darkening can even out your tone but to take it super far is just sad.
They look Grey at times. Like the bleaching strips their undertone and they look dead
Where I'm from, you're able to tell someone who's bleached their skin due to the differences between their face and other parts of the body, especially the hands. The face tends to be unnaturally light while the hands retain the darker tone.
Where I'm from, they look red and somewhat burned. It's not a good look.
It's so terrible to see country with darker Skins try to fight for achieving lighter skin. I'm a brown girl. I think my skin is pretty the way it is. Gold vibes tbh. But the way I've been insulted by my own teacher for my skin colour is scary. Said that I look like "negro people". 1) what's wrong If my skin is similar to the skins of African people?
2) I'm not like super dark. I have a golden brownish skin
3) my teacher is like 10 shades darker than me. How tf does he think he can make fun of my skin
@@do_haegh6178 I think your teacher is projecting. He doesn't like his own skin tone, so, he might resent people who don't appear to mind their respective tones🤷♀️
Something that he views as undesirable is something that another person may appreciate.
On a different note, I don't understand why people are obsessed with skin tone.
It's not like association with people of different skintones will somehow affect/change your tone.
It is not as though skin color determines how intelligent or interesting a person can be.
Even bearing a preference for a particular tone shouldn't make you a colorist.
I'm a vegetarian but I'm not advocating for the death of meat eaters.
The point I'm attempting to make is...
extremism is unnecessary.
Acknowledging and accepting differences is a step in the right direction.
I had a friend who was pale af. She was so pale that she looked sick and you could see her veins. People called her awful things such as ghost, demon, zombie, goth, ect.. ig it depends where you're from because in the US being darker skinned is the ideal beauty standard
Not if you're Black American. We're still hated for our dark skin no matter what.
@@Mooniestarry where u get that information from? that's such a lie.
@@gummiiiworm That has been my experience and the experience of those in my community. You shouldn't invalidate the experience of others, that's weird.
@@gummiiiwormNot a lie at all. For anyone that knows the past and present America and still say it's a lie is nothing but a demon.
Do you mean being a darker skinned white person? Because that last statement is not true at all. Darker skin is not the ideal standard in the US.
I used to be a makeup artist. I was working for a birthday party, and the girl's mother kept telling me to put lighter foundation on the kid. She wasn't lighter. I told her I could do it (I am trained to make special effects), but I needed to also put makeup on her ears, neck, and any other visible part. They told me to stick to the face only, give her a "natural look", with gold colors and light skin. I stopped working in makeup not soon after.
Black people have to deal with similar colorism. In the US, lighter skinned Black people are generally viewed more positively than darker skinned people and it really can impact all aspects of life. Even though I see more and more Black folk appreciating darker skin, the lighter is better standard is very much still applied to Black people from greater society, ESPECIALLY Black women.
Facts
The fact most of this was caused because of European colonization
Really? Tbh no one really cares, I been among other cultures in America too and I’ll just tell you man, everyone sees you as black and don’t really care what shade
If anything I seen it’s other black people who are obsessed with light skinned blacks and whites. Some whites even fall victim to this
Mf’s talking about caramel babies and hoping somehow they get the white partners eyes. It’s seriously creepy af how genetically obsessed people still are in 2022
Mayne because they look better
@@alecgurney9305 both looks good but one's closer to white so people think it's better, slavery mentality
I think the scariest thing I saw growing up in korea was 백옥주사 which is an injection with a side effect of stopping melanin production for skin whitening. It's rumored to be popular with idols :(
.... it's sadly true....
That is so creepy! and sounds very unhealthy
Lisa definetly takes them
it can literally cause cancer!
So they want to be albino… because even the palest ppl have melanin just very little.
If they want to stop melanin they want to look like the actually have a diseases. I saw a show where a Korean albino didn’t have any friends because ppl were afraid of them cause they “looked scary” gosh you really can’t win.
I work as a sales associate in a makeup store. I could never understand why people from different countries in Asia would always want to buy foundation that was too light for their skin tone. This video really explains it well.
This is also a problem in the Caribbean too
ugh thank you for speaking on this, i feel like colorism is such a big thing in our community and it's just so ingrained... i noticed that when i went back to vietnam to visit and the korean wave hit, almost every woman/femme i saw tried to adopt the "lighter skin, red lip" look and it was so unnatural to me. as a young person, i was so impressionable and bc i loved kpop too and wanted to be pretty like the idols i saw on media, i even tried to buy skin lightening soap... 😬
i'm just glad i'm in a better place mentally now and am accepting my medium skin tone. lol
You go girl!
Love this video 😂
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skin lightening in Asia isn’t getting any better, only more excessive. And the amount of East Asian influencers who white wash them selves with filters is so unnecessary. When their real skin tone/complexion is tan and looks so much healthier and beautiful!
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It usually spreads the message of having darker complexion isn’t beautiful/desired.
I think it would be helpful if more was done technology wise to make darker skin tones as vivid on video as they are in real. It would take decades but I think there are women out there already who are loud and proud of their natural healthy skin, it is just very hard to show it as well. I think we all see advice on how to look overall better in pics and vids, but it is intended towards perfect light of a white person- so unhelpful toward wast majority of Earth population.
I always thought that for East Asians, the darker the skin tone, the more wealthier you looked or assumed to be. It looked like you traveled a lot and have been out in the sun often.
@@MrTobi013 no, its the opposite here
peasants are the ones working 24/7 getting dark while nobles stay inside
@@MrTobi013 and, atleast for me and my classmates, we try to avoid the sun cause it gets us tan
so yeah, the richer you are, the more you stay inside
Thankfully some idols are posting more and more pics in their natural skin tone
If not all the time at least a comfortable amount. BTS are the best example but I noticed idols like Seulgi will sometimes just throw out a non white washed pic. Actually I noticed she if anything is more likely to post all natural than washed lately and I’ll tell you.....that’s hot 👀