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I had been upto my throat listening to little chinese claims on Indians want to be white/ fair complexion as Indians suffer from inferiority complex.
This is what I came across... such a hypocritical people can only be found in the `middle kingdon`
Read on --
What? You like old skin!?! a young Chinese guy exclaimed to me in English.
Old, was the word he used for dark. Im not sure if this was a language error or if it was a direct translation of some pejorative Chinese term for dark skin, but I answered in the affirmative anyway.
Yes, I like old skin.
Of course we were talking about Chinas deeply ingrained obsession with white skin. My companion then pointed across to one of his classmates and told me outright that she had dark skin and was not very beautiful. She agreed. I tried to disagree.
In your country people have lots of different color skins, he tried to justify my apparent tastelessness, so you think all color skin is beautiful. Here in China, everybody has yellow skin, so we think white skin is beautiful.
This was an understatement.
The Chinese and East Asians in general have an all out obsession with light colored skin. This isnt the direct result of Western influence dictated by Hollywood, advertising, hot Caucasian chicks, or anything like this. No, the people here are not trying to look American; their goal is to look like fair skinned Chinese people.
White skin is a very long-honed determinant of beauty in China, and spans back to a time long before the first white dude ever set foot in North America. To read through old Chinese literature youll find that skin tone is mentioned often and is usually used to reference class or character. In point, skin color is used to show where someone comes from and the type of life they live.
The feminine ideal during the Han period for women of the court was almost unearthly white, white skin. . . ran an article in the Global Post. (WTF so this has been continuing since han periods? and they cal us that we suffe from complexity issues ?.loll )
Unlike in the USA, skin tone in China has virtually nothing to do with race. Generally speaking, this is a culture that has been virtually mono-racial for large swaths of its history. In the West we use labels like black, white, brown, yellow, red to express race, but skin tone does not divide people up in China in the same way. With the exception the Uighurs in the west, most of the cultural sub-units in China are of Mongoloid stock. So when talking about skin color here its mostly a discussion of what shade someone is within the bounds of this broad racial grouping.
A woman should always have fair skin, a Chinese lady was quoted as saying in a NY Times article. Otherwise people will think youre a peasant.
Oh my babys skin is so dark, my babys skin is so dark, a concerned Chinese mother spoke. My baby goes out in the sun so much and plays. I cant take a picture of her now because her skin is so dark.
She didnt care that her baby had a big bruise under its eye and no hair, she just cared that its skin was dark. "Jeepers- creepers "
Skin whitening products
They have names like Extreme Bright Brightening Gel, White Swan, Snow White, and Fair and Lovely. They are skin whitening products, and its estimated that 50% of Chinese people between the ages of 25 and 34 have used them in some form or another. Needless to say, skin lightening in East Asia is a multi-billion dollar per year business.
白富美 White, Rich, and Beautiful
Living and traveling in China is to be brought face to face with the fact that skin tone is a major factor in determining beauty, class, and status. Though there are no hard coded rules here, social preferences err towards individuals with light skin, and the cultures ingrained outlook that white = rich and dark = poor is continuously self-fulfilled.
It was reported in the NY Times that two thirds of men in Hong Kong prefer fairer skinned women, while half the women who participated in the survey stated that they want their men whiter... lord almighty
Social ascension based on qualities of physical attractiveness is not something that is rare in any country in this world, and a cultures attractive genes are ever being pooled upwards.
China is a country that is now obsessed with wealth, power, social ascension, opportunity, and beauty. This entire packaged is often wrapped up in a single symbol:
White skin.
I bluntly questioned a young Chinese woman about her cultures white skin obsession. Why do you want white skin? I asked her.
She deferred to the translating program on her mobile phone, and after punching a few buttons a satisfied look crept over her face. She handed the device to me, and on it was written:
White skin removes all ugliness.
一白遮三丑
So next time a chinese tells you about skin colour just save this link and rub it in their face.
Source - White Skin: A Chinese Obsession - The China Chronicle
@HongWu @ChinaToday @Peaceful Civilian
Whats the truth here aye?
This is what I came across... such a hypocritical people can only be found in the `middle kingdon`
Read on --
What? You like old skin!?! a young Chinese guy exclaimed to me in English.
Old, was the word he used for dark. Im not sure if this was a language error or if it was a direct translation of some pejorative Chinese term for dark skin, but I answered in the affirmative anyway.
Yes, I like old skin.
Of course we were talking about Chinas deeply ingrained obsession with white skin. My companion then pointed across to one of his classmates and told me outright that she had dark skin and was not very beautiful. She agreed. I tried to disagree.
In your country people have lots of different color skins, he tried to justify my apparent tastelessness, so you think all color skin is beautiful. Here in China, everybody has yellow skin, so we think white skin is beautiful.
This was an understatement.
The Chinese and East Asians in general have an all out obsession with light colored skin. This isnt the direct result of Western influence dictated by Hollywood, advertising, hot Caucasian chicks, or anything like this. No, the people here are not trying to look American; their goal is to look like fair skinned Chinese people.
White skin is a very long-honed determinant of beauty in China, and spans back to a time long before the first white dude ever set foot in North America. To read through old Chinese literature youll find that skin tone is mentioned often and is usually used to reference class or character. In point, skin color is used to show where someone comes from and the type of life they live.
The feminine ideal during the Han period for women of the court was almost unearthly white, white skin. . . ran an article in the Global Post. (WTF so this has been continuing since han periods? and they cal us that we suffe from complexity issues ?.loll )
Unlike in the USA, skin tone in China has virtually nothing to do with race. Generally speaking, this is a culture that has been virtually mono-racial for large swaths of its history. In the West we use labels like black, white, brown, yellow, red to express race, but skin tone does not divide people up in China in the same way. With the exception the Uighurs in the west, most of the cultural sub-units in China are of Mongoloid stock. So when talking about skin color here its mostly a discussion of what shade someone is within the bounds of this broad racial grouping.
A woman should always have fair skin, a Chinese lady was quoted as saying in a NY Times article. Otherwise people will think youre a peasant.
Oh my babys skin is so dark, my babys skin is so dark, a concerned Chinese mother spoke. My baby goes out in the sun so much and plays. I cant take a picture of her now because her skin is so dark.
She didnt care that her baby had a big bruise under its eye and no hair, she just cared that its skin was dark. "Jeepers- creepers "
Skin whitening products
They have names like Extreme Bright Brightening Gel, White Swan, Snow White, and Fair and Lovely. They are skin whitening products, and its estimated that 50% of Chinese people between the ages of 25 and 34 have used them in some form or another. Needless to say, skin lightening in East Asia is a multi-billion dollar per year business.
白富美 White, Rich, and Beautiful
Living and traveling in China is to be brought face to face with the fact that skin tone is a major factor in determining beauty, class, and status. Though there are no hard coded rules here, social preferences err towards individuals with light skin, and the cultures ingrained outlook that white = rich and dark = poor is continuously self-fulfilled.
It was reported in the NY Times that two thirds of men in Hong Kong prefer fairer skinned women, while half the women who participated in the survey stated that they want their men whiter... lord almighty
Social ascension based on qualities of physical attractiveness is not something that is rare in any country in this world, and a cultures attractive genes are ever being pooled upwards.
China is a country that is now obsessed with wealth, power, social ascension, opportunity, and beauty. This entire packaged is often wrapped up in a single symbol:
White skin.
I bluntly questioned a young Chinese woman about her cultures white skin obsession. Why do you want white skin? I asked her.
She deferred to the translating program on her mobile phone, and after punching a few buttons a satisfied look crept over her face. She handed the device to me, and on it was written:
White skin removes all ugliness.
一白遮三丑
So next time a chinese tells you about skin colour just save this link and rub it in their face.
Source - White Skin: A Chinese Obsession - The China Chronicle
@HongWu @ChinaToday @Peaceful Civilian
Whats the truth here aye?
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