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PastorYoon
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Location: Sea of Japan
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| You can easily tell when Koreans wear whitening cream. They usually don't put it on their necks, so you can see the contrast between the yellow skin on their necks, and the suddenly white skin on their faces. |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Miss Milk! |
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PastorYoon
Joined: 25 Jun 2010
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| Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| NYC_Gal 2.0 wrote: |
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Who is Miss Milk? |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
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| Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Ah just something I think when I see the white end at the neck. |
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PastorYoon
Joined: 25 Jun 2010
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| Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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Kind of looks like powdered milk when it starts flaking.  |
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Caffeinated
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crito03
Joined: 30 Jun 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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Sure it was/is "an American thing" as long as we include Central and South America too (and the Caribbean). I can't really speak about Canada beyond anecdotal stuff.
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Most Africans think darker skin is better.
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I don't think you are black, but my family from the Caribbean, and their extended friends do not hold such an idiotic idea.
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Travel Zen
I am West Indian(ethnicity) and lived there until I was twelve. I can tell you without a doubt that this phenomenon (commonly know as shadism) exists in many forms in the Caribbean.
I can't speak for Africa or Africans but maybe you should ask your West Indian family more about it. There is even a brief write up on it in Wikipedia here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadism. There have been a fair bit of academic discourse coming out of the West Indies over the years regarding it. |
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Squire
Joined: 26 Sep 2010
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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Is this part of the reason for face masks and those hats with brims? I work on an island, so bad air can't be the only reason for people going about their business every day with a face mask on.
As an aside, I prefer light skinned Asian women. |
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PastorYoon
Joined: 25 Jun 2010
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| Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 7:03 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, the face masks, hats with brims, and whitening cream are so that the people here can have whiter skin. |
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travel zen
Joined: 22 Feb 2005
Location: Good old Toronto, Canada
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| Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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I am West Indian(ethnicity) and lived there until I was twelve. I can tell you without a doubt that this phenomenon (commonly know as shadism) exists in many forms in the Caribbean.
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Places like Guyana and Trinidad, there have been race riots between "african" and 'indian' peoples. I wouldn't doubt skin shade/race is a problem there.
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Mariella713 wrote: when I was growing up because they said I had "such nice white skin"...even now when I visit, kids in the street shout out how pretty my skin is (BTW I am about Jessica Alba's colour, perhaps a little lighter so I'm not even that white)...so yes, I would say lightER skin is seen as quite desirable by some.
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So sad. In Nigeria? Sad my friend. When I go down in a few months, I'll get to the bottom of that, you wait.
When I returned to the Caribbean at 9, I was shades lighter than most people and was called 'red' by the older ones. I was cute... but not dark enough  |
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