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Post by milkman's baby on Aug 26, 2010 22:42:53 GMT -5
I don't know if SE Asians have it any worse than NE Asians. All these lightening creams and bleaching crap is sold outta China, SK, and Japan, so clearly people out there have their brain hung up on this crap too. While I'd like to say it's not any different or more harmless than these white chicks that go tanning, the fact is it does differ. There is a deeper history to Asians' desire to be light than white people's longing for tan skin. I've never heard of white people discriminating and looking down on another white person for being pale. Tanning, although people have made it so fake today, has always been natural by working hard outside and staying in the sun. But there has never been a healthy, natural, and effective way to lighten skin. I try not to always accuse Asian girls of wanting to look white but I've gotta admit, it's hard for me not to think that there isn't an inferiority complex present when these girls get eyelid surgery and invest in this skin bleaching junk. I have no problems with taking measures for your own vanity to satisfy yourself, but when you are mutilating your body like that you have other things that need to be fixed (not physical). generally, not generalize, but people who generally use skin lighting skin are from lower socioeconomic and with a darker tan. South East Asia has it just as bad, ifnot even worse, their complexes is even larger. In south east countries e.g. Philppines it's not just about been light skinned, but there is also a deep complex merely being light skin. But they are also trying to achieve to be Cauasian, this is so set deep into their mentality that it has turned into an ideology. Their "goal" is to wipe/hide their asian heritage, this is another level in what they strive to achieve. What Philppines idealize is to be Caucasian looking but with a "filipino" culture. This is just one of the common mentality in the Philppines but of course it doesn't apply to everyone, but it's a inferior complex that has been passed down for generation. So that is pretty missed up. Not saying all filipinos don't have pride, but alot of filipinos have what has been termed "blind pride". What they say always contridicts with their prideful comments in being Filipino....funny, it's always seems to be double standard to everything they say. This is just an example. NE Asians have another level of inferiority complex, but I'll write about that another time. I agree that all of those elements exist but I still think the NE Asians have it just as badly and the same type of complex. It's an epidemic that's been in all of Asia for quite some time. No other race has an inferiority complex quite to the disturbing point that Asians do. I hate to say it, but it kinda makes me ashamed to be half Asian. I don't want to be associated with people like that. I've already had people comment on how they're surprised I don't wear loads of makeup and bleach my hair like "most Asian girls."
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Post by okay on Aug 27, 2010 6:42:42 GMT -5
generally, not generalize, but people who generally use skin lighting skin are from lower socioeconomic and with a darker tan. South East Asia has it just as bad, ifnot even worse, their complexes is even larger. In south east countries e.g. Philppines it's not just about been light skinned, but there is also a deep complex merely being light skin. But they are also trying to achieve to be Cauasian, this is so set deep into their mentality that it has turned into an ideology. Their "goal" is to wipe/hide their asian heritage, this is another level in what they strive to achieve. What Philppines idealize is to be Caucasian looking but with a "filipino" culture. This is just one of the common mentality in the Philppines but of course it doesn't apply to everyone, but it's a inferior complex that has been passed down for generation. So that is pretty missed up. Not saying all filipinos don't have pride, but alot of filipinos have what has been termed "blind pride". What they say always contridicts with their prideful comments in being Filipino....funny, it's always seems to be double standard to everything they say. This is just an example. NE Asians have another level of inferiority complex, but I'll write about that another time. I agree that all of those elements exist but I still think the NE Asians have it just as badly and the same type of complex. It's an epidemic that's been in all of Asia for quite some time. No other race has an inferiority complex quite to the disturbing point that Asians do. I hate to say it, but it kinda makes me ashamed to be half Asian. I don't want to be associated with people like that. I've already had people comment on how they're surprised I don't wear loads of makeup and bleach my hair like "most Asian girls." this is just a sterotype....of course not all asians have an inferiority complex. And no NE/SE asians does not have the worst inferiority complexes.....Blacks, latins, indians all have it just as bad, what you are saying is not completely true. I would says some NE/SE asians do have inferiority complexes but it's only a population that has been magnified to the extend that it seems relates to the whole population. A few negative sterotypes that legitmatize the everyone, which is completely untrue. People need to use there common sense, but unforunately e.g the mass media populates the whole unlying text of suggestive characteristics to be "inferior". Of we know not all NE/SE asians feel like that. If you look at indian culture, you can say it can be far more extreme, not only your skin colour dedicates your status and your future. A caste system that has been for generations which almost seems impossible to break away from. Where blacks(American or African) would prefer to go out with someone with a light shade of brown. This is no different from the Asian mentality. There is nothing to be a ashamed to be half asian, so I see what so different being half asian, your just another person.
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Post by javen on Dec 10, 2010 9:39:00 GMT -5
im guessings tht its from the ancient days in asia tht the people in china/japan/korea/maby siam and vietnam that when they traveled south thy thought of the darker philipinos/malays as primitive people and assoiated dark skin with low class i think that every culture (xcept for guidos) in the world think lighter skin is beautiful wow and you assume the CJK would think SEAsians were primitive..you do know China and Japan traded heavily with kingdoms and sultunates in Philippines and Malaysia during ancient times....lol nm...Im probably not going to get through your Japan is great and everything else is s*** attitude anyways
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Post by Starburst on Jan 2, 2011 18:42:25 GMT -5
I think people mix up that the northeast Chinese look the whitest and the northwest is more Mongolian looking but still white if you go far north enough maybe. I think the closer to the water, the lighter the skin. I saw a picture of someone from the Taiwan province of China, and she had like white skin. I think Asians just uphold their ancestry in the midst of the popularity of things like the U.S. I am not sure why Asians cling to the past after knowing about the western world. I don't think I look that Chinese, though, just because I'm 1|2 and not more. You can still be European and look Asian, but I just don't.
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