A glance at the Indian newspaper and this is what it read.
Matrimonial Advertisement
Wanted bride – very fair and beautiful…………………….
I thought in my mind – “If the guy maybe as good as tar, the bride should have fair skin”.
After N years of marriage you hear the mothers comment on the not so good looks of the daughter-in-law but she can easily overlook the fact that her son is as dark as coal and a good for nothing.
The lighter your skin, you are considered pretty. It may look like an idea conceived by the media but it really comes from within you and your community. When you see a light skinned person getting preferential treatment and the dark skinned being ignored you realize, we ourselves have defined it. This obsession has got its widespread rotten roots in most Indian minds. India’s ugly secret is its discrimination against dark skinned folks. In the West, there is a transformation in the concept of beauty-but for we Indians, colour is the most indisputable winner.
How would you define the Indian mentality towards colour - “passive racist”?
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its the law of selection , when looking for mates one looks for the best features so nothing wrong with selection of fair men and women. in the south of the vindhyas dravidian people arent so obsessed with fair skin and their dark choclate colour is cherished and beautiful too. its when the dark skinned women herself starts thinking of herself as a lesser being then the problem starts. society is what we make of it. better to talk about content of character than the colour of the dermis......
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