Why is tan skin not considered attractive in Asia? (vs, interesting, people)
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Media/Ads is one of the most influential. They are only concern on money, how they will earn. Just one example ad from a beauty product is "Kutis Artista" that if you buy the product you'll get a skin of a TV personality. I don't blame the models as they are just working to earn money & the product owner's goal is to get money from the market & they are their target consumers. I guess we need advertisement that encourage the people to embrace their skin color more. I don't think this people wanted to look like European by getting lighter skin. If you say European or Caucasian looks then they have to change everything not just skin color. I guess light skin for them represent high class & beauty, being darker represent lower class & always get tease because of their skin color. These people need self esteem & they think buying these products is the solution that's how I see it not because they wanted to change their image because changing color doesn't change the formation of your face.
If anything, at least the colonial mentality hasn't carried over to Filipino Americans actually living in the U.S., at least from what I've seen. My grandma was obsessed with white skin, but no one I know, besides Michael Jackson, bleaches their skin, and I happen to think that I look better/healthier when I get some sun in me.
Darker skin on Asians indicates people who work outdoors for a living (farmers, was the typical image), and therefore are low class. If you had pale skin, it was proof that you weren't a common laborer, and could be of the upper classes. Darker skin in China also could indicate that one is of a minority population (also considered low-class), like a Mongol or a Tibetan.
In the West it also used to be de rigeur to maintain pale skin, and for the same reason. Then, sometime in the 20-s or 30's, the famous designer Coco Chanel took a trip to Italy in winter, and returned home beautifully tanned. Literally overnight, it became fashionable (in the US at least) to be tan, because tan skin became a symbol of leisure time and travel to sunny climes, and the money to be able to make it happen. So the symbolic imagery flipped, from pale skin indicating upper class status, to tan skin being a symbol of upper class status. Now tanning is so common among Euro-Americans, it's done purely for beauty reasons.
If anything, at least the colonial mentality hasn't carried over to Filipino Americans actually living in the U.S., at least from what I've seen. My grandma was obsessed with white skin, but no one I know, besides Michael Jackson, bleaches their skin, and I happen to think that I look better/healthier when I get some sun in me.
What Fil Am suffer from are a little different from folks back home, over here, it's an Identity crisis, they know nothing of their enthnicity, of its traditions, culture. If anything, they are rather embarrased until they get to a certain age and figure out that no matter how hard they try, they really cant change who they are, from there, they either loathe it more or learn embrace it. A good example is how they would describe themselves. Some would indicate their pacific islander instead of asian.
I find Filipino behavior very peculior to say the least, they're very passive group of people in general making them easy for manipulation. I think 400yrs of colonial rule is a testament to that. They liked it too much.
What Fil Am suffer from are a little different from folks back home, over here, it's an Identity crisis, they know nothing of their enthnicity, of its traditions, culture. If anything, they are rather embarrased until they get to a certain age and figure out that no matter how hard they try, they really cant change who they are, from there, they either loathe it more or learn embrace it. A good example is how they would describe themselves. Some would indicate their pacific islander instead of asian.
I find Filipino behavior very peculior to say the least, they're very passive group of people in general making them easy for manipulation. I think 400yrs of colonial rule is a testament to that. They liked it too much.
I agree to a certain extent, but having an identity crisis is a big part of what entails life as a teenager and young adult in general, especially for minorities. Granted, this isn't as much of a problem with Blacks, Latinos, Middle-Easterners, and other Asians, but it's fairly common among those groups, too.
Our identity crisis seems almost similar to that common with biracial persons, in that we're unsure of how it's supposed to reflect off ourselves as individuals.
What Fil Am suffer from are a little different from folks back home, over here, it's an Identity crisis, they know nothing of their enthnicity, of its traditions, culture. If anything, they are rather embarrased until they get to a certain age and figure out that no matter how hard they try, they really cant change who they are, from there, they either loathe it more or learn embrace it. A good example is how they would describe themselves. Some would indicate their pacific islander instead of asian.
I find Filipino behavior very peculior to say the least, they're very passive group of people in general making them easy for manipulation. I think 400yrs of colonial rule is a testament to that. They liked it too much.
I guess they don't know that Pacific Islander & Asian is just a geographical term not a race or ethnicity.
People are also based it through culture similarities. The other problem also is that people are always stereotyping Asian as a race.
I guess they don't know that Pacific Islander & Asian is just a geographical term not a race or ethnicity.
People are also based it through culture similarities. The other problem also is that people are always stereotyping Asian as a race.
It's a class thing. Females with dark skin that they see in urban areas are mostly from poorer rural areas or from Southeast Asian countries there to work as domestic helpers. Then there's oversea Chinese such as myself who shocked people when they hear me speak flawless Cantonese without an accent when I go back to Hong Kong. Oddly enough, males with darker skin than mine don't get pegged as being from mainland or from Southeast Asia.
most maids in hong kong come from urban manila and southern luzon...they not only have dark skin but have australoid like features.....
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