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If you are dark skinned in these countries, they tell you 'you have little chance of being married'.]]>Jul 30th 2009 3:24PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/07/30/the-quest-for-porcelain-white-skin/http://www.luxist.com/2009/07/30/the-quest-for-porcelain-white-skin/Jul 30th 2009 4:40PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/07/30/the-quest-for-porcelain-white-skin/http://www.luxist.com/2009/07/30/the-quest-for-porcelain-white-skin/
Probably the same explanation could hold for the Greeks. I'm richer than you, I can afford to stay inside all day.

Interesting question is how did this get reversed in the US? Was it an industrial society affect -> everyone works inside. I'm tan, meaning I'm rich enough to spend time just lying around sunning myself, or playing on the golf course?

I'm in CT. Curious if being tan is a status symbol in the South.

]]>Jul 31st 2009 12:16AMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/07/30/the-quest-for-porcelain-white-skin/http://www.luxist.com/2009/07/30/the-quest-for-porcelain-white-skin/In India and most of Asia where people are naturally darker skin, they have the kighter skin = better.
In Africa this is compounded by some weird beleive that lighter skin people have white people's blood in their ancestry which makes them better. Which is crazy IMO but people will beleive the weirdest things...
Saw a documentary about white skin/dark skin obsession worldwide couple of f years ago.


The more people I meet the more I like my dog...]]>Aug 3rd 2009 4:22PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/07/30/the-quest-for-porcelain-white-skin/http://www.luxist.com/2009/07/30/the-quest-for-porcelain-white-skin/Aug 8th 2009 8:32AMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/07/30/the-quest-for-porcelain-white-skin/http://www.luxist.com/2009/07/30/the-quest-for-porcelain-white-skin/
But interest in skin lightening/paleness is also shared by other ethnicities, including blacks. In fact, this is an area of prejudice within the black community, where the degree of blackness, or relative lack thereof, is very ingrained in their perceptions and consciousness, with "high yellow's", mulattos, and others on the pale side often taking great pride in their lighter complexions. Bleaching creams, e.g., Ambi, are popular for this reason. Also, this is why blacks don't understand it when whites say blacks "look all the same", because that's one of the first things they notice about one another - skin tone. ]]>Aug 18th 2009 12:04PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/07/30/the-quest-for-porcelain-white-skin/http://www.luxist.com/2009/07/30/the-quest-for-porcelain-white-skin/Jul 31st 2009 11:21AMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/07/30/the-quest-for-porcelain-white-skin/http://www.luxist.com/2009/07/30/the-quest-for-porcelain-white-skin/White folks wanting darker skin,and non whites wanting light skin.
If they were born with that i'm sure they would want to change it too.
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Being white or lighter skinned in the Philippines is the goal of a lot of women. They associate this with being rich. It's not desirable to be dark because they associate this with being poor, because poor people work in the fields.

I went back to the Philiipines after 6 years of stay in the States, I was darker because I love gardening and was mostly outdoors. When my relatives saw e, they said that I looked like I was a farmer. That was funny. I told them that I could care less because I love working outside. They said, you don't look like a Nurse. So I educated them the way it is is in the U.S. People don't think that way and that women love to have a nice tan.

Another misconception in Asia is that if one is fat and has a big stomach, they think that the person is rich and that means he has a lot of food to eat.. It's funny how many cultures differ. If one is thin and trim, people in the Philippines would think that the person does not have anything to eat.]]>Aug 11th 2009 7:09AMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/07/30/the-quest-for-porcelain-white-skin/http://www.luxist.com/2009/07/30/the-quest-for-porcelain-white-skin/
I believe in Nigeria and the rest of SSA, status is conferred to being lighter simply because the lighter the more you stand out in an otherwise dark skinned population. Even with the history of colonization, I don't feel it has much to do with Euro imperialism on a day to day level. Also noteworthy is that distinct lighter skinned populations (non-mixed Igbos; Arab-mixed Fulanis) existed in Nigeria pre arrival of the Europeans. ]]>Aug 13th 2009 6:47AMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/07/30/the-quest-for-porcelain-white-skin/http://www.luxist.com/2009/07/30/the-quest-for-porcelain-white-skin/Aug 19th 2009 2:38PM