Why this obsession with being gora!?!?!?

You could have an absolutely beautiful woman but if her colour is tiny bit dark and people will focus on the colour not the beauty. Being fair and ugly (inside and outside) is okay but being dark is the worse thing you can be? Why is this? Even in the south where people r of a darker complexion but they also discuss on minute differences in skin colour.

😆 It's such a unfortunately common issue with South Asian people! I guess fair is considered to be beautiful rather than dusky which is considered to be ugly. My best guess is that I guess many South Asian families are stuck in the colonial times where young British women were considered beautiful because of their untouched and pure pale skin. And I believe, being dark or dusky is NOT a bad thing... if we want to be more scientific about it then it's really about how much melanin your skin produces. 😆

lol okay there was a guest aunty in my home...and she is what 26 years old? but she is so obsessed with the fair skin! she has a 5 years old son and 7 months old daughter...my entire family was so annoyed by her habit of picking up everyone based on their skin color...well, in my family no one is actually dark-skinned even though my dad is comparatively dark-skinned...so she used to comment about my dad only...but she left nobody else...I was like "okay aunty, what will you do if your son falls in love with a dark-skinned girl? would you not let him marry her just coz of her skin?" and she hardly had an answer...and once, she picked up on a 8 years old kid as well (whom I love so much)...I wasn't present at that time but my mom got so annoyed that she literally told her ki she is obsessed with fair skin!!! from that day she at least couldn't gather up the courage to pick on ark-skinned people in front of us😕😃😆...such pathetic people still exist in our societies and I don't think it has to do with the generations...I mean she is just 26 years old and yet is so narrow-indeed regarding the skin color!!

@desigirl

Originally posted by: Shell16

@desigirl

I agree this is left over colonialism but it has been prevalent in society across the board and goes back very very far back in history. It is a way to keep the separation in the classes and actually oppress people. In the US during the time of slavery ...as children were born of landowners and slaves ..as they started to get lighter and lighter the more acceptable they become in society. In North African countries cases of skin cancer are increasing as women are using skin lightening bleaching creams. We know about India and the subcontinent. I have seen advertisements for skin lightening creams on Chinese channels as well. My Japanese friend doesn't find Koreans and Filipinos attractive the main reason is that they are darker.

This obsession with being gora and that white is better than everything and everyone exists in all cultures and societies. This is sick! Why do people still accept it and carry on this? Everyone on Indian TV is 100 times lighter than people walking on the street.

I still don't get it.

my cousin was 12 when she was gifted fair-skin cream and she isn't even that dark!

Nice post Shelly ...

Originally posted by: brainychild92

my cousin was 12 when she was gifted fair-skin cream and she isn't even that dark!

when i was born, the first question my aunt asked my mom was if the baby (referring to me) was gori or kaali.

some people are just too much!