Discussion - Color Discrimination - Page 2

I think all of us in Asia ( and amongst Africans too i understand) are born to envy and desire the colour white . Its like all we hear is how we must protect out skin from going darker , or find ways to lighten it !!

I have had my experiences with my mom , and my in laws making a fuss about it . Now i am ashamed to say ,i am so concious , i am petrified of tanning . I'll do million things to run from the sun !! 😆 Gosh i hope i don't rub it off on my future generation !! 😡

A very good topic of discussion! I recently started watching Saath Phere and I was pleasantly surprised to see that the lead in the serial was not the usual, conventional fair skinned woman.

I think as a society we are giving out the wrong message to our future generations by agreeing with the mysnomer that fair skin=beauty. I mean look at the commercials on Indian television which promote fairness, it's just plain awful!

We as a society need to change our way of thinking because it can lead to many girls in particular having complexes about their skin colour.

Originally posted by: himaliv

I was darker than my younger sister. It was not easy growing up. I was constantly reminded how I will not be able to find someone to marry me. I was compared everyday with my sister. My aunt's and grandmother made my life a living hell. I had complexes, was so shy and full of anger. I hated it. I can so very well connect to Saloni. But now it all turned out for good. I got into University of Roorkee with a very good rank. Did my engineering in Computer Science and is very well settled with my husband who loves me dearly and has no problem with my color. The times are changing. People don't care about the color much these days. But I still hate my Nani and Mausi. I will never forgive them.

It is a common practice in India to say anything about a person without thinking about that person's feelings. One of my cousins is much darker as compared to her sisters and her mom always kept saying that it would be very difficult to get her married. My cousin grew up with a complex and settled for the first guy who agreed to marry her.

This is a great discussion topic! Society has a very biased view of externalized beauty.

I've had some African friends when I used to live in Africa, that felt inferior of White people due to the fact, that they felt inferior in the color of their skin. They thought their skin shade was a curse, and started putting on a persona of indifference and bheviors of White people, so that their skin color may not seem a big deal!

To me biases, stem from the fact, that the external look of a person seems to matter more than their internal innate goodness. People have always judged others on their outer looks, and I think that's terribly wrong. Because, they are not only hurting another person's feelings but also lowering themselves into cheapness of their minds.

Discrimination, is not only a terrible chapter of human personality in India, but also in other parts of the world as well.

I think it's not right to compensate or rather substitute just because you feel inferior of yourself. One should gather their courage and learn to state their thoughts and not submit to another's desires, because you think they are true because later on you might realize that you made a mistake by marrying someone only because people perceive your external side first.

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First of all I would like to say this is a very good topic! I believe, everyone has the right to discuss their own opinons and views. I am totally with anyone who says fair people and dark people should be treated equally. Why can't a person be treated equally just because their dark. First, of all every Human does human activties so does it actually make a difference if were fair or fark? We, all wake up,wash our teeth etc etc however, then if someone if fairer why don'tt hey do thingsd differently. If they are treated differently then their basically, is a flaw in them. However, do we see a flaw in everything they do. Then why do we discriminate them? I ain't exactly what anyone would call fair. I have a ok Complexion but, anyone who says Fair people are better then Darker people according to me are wrong. To be fairly honest (not pointing to one so please don't get me wrong) if one dark person had a really good personaility and the other fair person was extremely bad who would you choose? I would definitley choose the person with the better personaility because, I know the dark person might not be as good looking. However, that person has a pure and cleas hurt. No, person has the right to discriminate another because, that person is sayign he or she is the best. > According to the second commandment(I am not a christian but do study it) " Love your neighbour as you love yourself. Would you stop loving your brother or sister and start discriminating them just because their dark. Would you hate your brother or sister not find them equal just because of that? I think, anyone who finds another ugly just because, their dark is totally mistaken. In conclusion to this every dark person has the right to be treated fairly and equally.

i have to say that i am quite fair in colour, and have have never discriminated against those darker than me.

I cannot beleive some people are discriminated against being darker.

When I started watching saloni was shocked that this actually goes on.

I just want 2 say it is inner beauty that counts....and also saloni is so much preety than shubra....

i dont understand wat the big deal about having fair skin rather than dark skin is much better. just because u may have a darker complection does not mean that u are less beautiful or less of a person!

i really annoys me wen in india ppl hav these backward thoghts. they have no respect for the person they are critisizing and absolutly no idea of how the person may feel and wat they are going through. yet, like many hav already said, so many beautiful ppl in india have darker skin, ie rani mukherji, who i find very beautiful!

it is downright disgusting when ppl comment on how you should be, they should get it through their heads that if god made u this way, then god made u this way!

also, i 2 think that saloni is much more pretier than shubra. she has so many beautifyl features and is very greaceful. while on the other hand shubra only has her fair skin!(no offence meant to the actress) the more important thing is that ppl should stop looking at outer beauty and look at wat isk within the person. (this has been perfectly show with neel and nahar luving saloni).

i think this is a great topic and i applaude you for bringing it into notice 😊 👏
as someone has said before; i also believe that it is inner beauty that counts at the end of the day; no one can grasp their outer beauty forever but inner beauty is a treasure that one can hold onto for the rest of their life. also inner beauty is a treasure that rewards your sould while outer beauty is a treasure that sets aflame your over-confidence.

Like everyone else, I really can't fathom why fairer skin is considered to be the most appealing.But unfortunately, that's one of the challenges that we face in society today. I think it's sooo important that we as individuals find a way to embrace and love ourselves for who we are, whether we have big noses, small ones, darker skin, fairer skin, whatever. Prejudices exist everywhere, and it's up to us to overcome them.

This is the one thing about us Indians that I detest. Not only do we have to overcome the so-called racial prejudices from non-Indians, whether it be direct or indirect, we also have to overcome it from within our own communities. This isn't a new issue though is it? We talk about about the richness of our culture and how proud we are to be Indian or of Indian origin (directed at us pardesi lok). Yet our so called culture was founded on the basis that light skin is better than dark skin. How ironic is it then when we face racism from non-Indians, whether it be from white europeans, blacks, etc. (Face it, we've all been there) and pull the race card out and cry racist, when it is inherent within our own people.
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