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Well,its a known fact the lighter you are the easier it is to be accepted by society in general. People say "it not about the color of the skin,its content of character" but it ain't true,and there really isn't a reason to pretend colorism doesn't exist.
Wasn't there a study done before that basically said men who were dark skinned had received longer prison sentences than lighter ones for the same offenses?
There was another one done where it said the darker people have higher unemployment rates than light skinned blacks.
Now,most of these studies were done on black americans but dark skinned Australians,Jamaicans,Arabs,and Indians have similiar stories.
I mean,you could accept yourself as you are,but let's not pretend these things don't affect other areas of life like dating and employment.
Besides,as most people pointed out,dark skinned people often have uneven skin tones,so it isn't really for bleaching the skin but to even out the skin tone.
It is an unassailable fact that being overweight can and often does bring negative consequences to one's health. For better or worse, being overweight can also bring negative social consequences.
But skin color is something one is born with, something that indicates ancestral and/or cultural connections to certain equatorial areas of the world. Since when did lightening dark skin constitute an improvement in image?
Well,its a known fact the lighter you are the easier it is to be accepted by society in general. People say "it not about the color of the skin,its content of character" but it ain't true,and there really isn't a reason to pretend colorism doesn't exist.
Wasn't there a study done before that basically said men who were dark skinned had received longer prison sentences than lighter ones for the same offenses?
There was another one done where it said the darker people have higher unemployment rates than light skinned blacks.
Now,most of these studies were done on black americans but dark skinned Australians,Jamaicans,Arabs,and Indians have similiar stories.
I mean,you could accept yourself as you are,but let's not pretend these things don't affect other areas of life like dating and employment.
From my experience as a 300-pound black male, I don't think my skin color has done any more damage to me in terms of dating or employment than the fact that I'm just big and ugly. I am what and who I am, but I've survived just fine. The positive impact of my education, personality and talents far outweigh (ha ha) any negative impact my skin color may have - in fact, I don't believe my color has had any positive or negative effect on my life whatsoever.
Even if color for some reason did have an adverse effect, do you prefer damaging your skin - because that is what chemical skin lightening does - to accepting yourself the way you are?
It is an unassailable fact that being overweight can and often does bring negative consequences to one's health. For better or worse, being overweight can also bring negative social consequences.
But skin color is something one is born with, something that indicates ancestral and/or cultural connections to certain equatorial areas of the world. Since when did lightening dark skin constitute an improvement in image?
The same concept applies to the looks of Skin color.
Jerseygal4u has a point. There are jobs where you will be denied based on your weight.
Like I said earlier in my post that I was much lighter in my early teenage years until I played outside in the sun a lot.
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