Skin-whitening creams: worthy of anger?

**rory_20_uk** · 07-19-2010, 12:43

No, it's a pile of crap. No one is forced to buy or wear it. People choose to. It's popular in Africa / India and China. In all three areas (as well as Japan), whiteness has been preferred often way before "whiteys" turned up.

People from Essex / Cheshire pain themselves orange and this is not racist.

Rich, American women have been cutting themselves up, breaking their noses and a myriad of other things and this is almost viewed as "normal". Most people have something they'd like to improve. This is no better or worse than others - as long as they avoid the brands that contain Mercury.

I have wondered if there is any skin tone that everyone in the world is aiming for or whether it is truly dependant on the culture and varies tremendously.

**Fragony** · 07-19-2010, 14:19

Ya a light skin is prefered in almost every culture, rediculous to assume they want to be whites they just want a light skin. Ironically the people who get worked up over this are the real white supremacists they just don't understand that. Soooo patronising I would be seriously offended by such a suggestion if I was Indian/Asian/whatever.

**Hosakawa Tito** · 07-19-2010, 15:21

And then there's the orange people...

**gaelic cowboy** · 07-19-2010, 17:53

^^
What eejits are they Hosakawa

**Rhyfelwyr** · 07-19-2010, 18:55

I think they go by the name of douchebags. I saw one in RL in Glasgow recently, he was bright orange and had hair all white and spiked, plus he looked about five feet tall. As close to an oompa loompa as you could ask for.

**Megas Methuselah** · 07-20-2010, 03:04

Originally Posted by Fragony

Ya a light skin is prefered in almost every culture, rediculous to assume they want to be whites they just want a light skin.

Haha, not in my culture. This is why I go out to get a tan. Too damn pale. It's the Metis blood.

**The Spartan (Returns)** · 07-19-2010, 19:49

Originally Posted by rory_20_uk

No, it's a pile of crap. No one is forced to buy or wear it. People choose to. It's popular in Africa / India and China. In all three areas (as well as Japan), whiteness has been preferred often way before "whiteys" turned up.

It's popular in all of Asia as well as South America.