skin colour ???

Question

I think that its mad that ethnic minorities are bleaching their skin in order to be fair skinned, while there are loads of white people are all out to get a tan. Both of these methods damage the skin, in one way or another. Why cant we all just be happy with the skin colour that we have. If your pale are dark, why cant people just be happy with what they have?????

Sorry I prefer to say ethnic minorities instead of people of colour. It just reminds me too much of the cheesy speah Halle Berry gave at the Oscars (not really to do with the question but just thought I would Comment)

Answer 1

I agree but society seems to dictate & stupidly people listen!
For Instance do you straighten your hair?
would you go out with an afro?
Would you wear a bikini without any hangups? (maybe not!)
and why? because society tells you its a problem & then we spend our lives trying to solve it. So im with you on this & refuse to conform to what society dictates.
Peace out!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

unfortunately, that's just the way people are.
a lot of people ARE happy with what they have, but then there are just those who aren't, and that is something that we will NEVER have an answer to.
it is impossible to find out why, as a lot of people mask the true reasons behind their actions.
being unhappy with light skin, dark skin, or whatever else, is sometimes rooted from traumatic incidents in a persons childhood, or something a person experienced during a vulnerable time in their life, which in turn results in trying to change what they think makes them unacceptable.
not all people are like this, but it is just another problem in the world that wont change, in my opinion, because i feel it is not so much being unhappy with what you have, but a more deeper issue that people just may not want to confront.

Answer 3

It does seem strange that the paler you are the darker you want to be and the darker you are the paler you want to be. Its like people who have curly hair always want straight and people with straight always want curly.

I think we should be happy with what we've got - its a shame I cant follow this: I straighten my hair and dye it so its different from my natural colour. I also go and get a spray tan every so often to make me look tanned (i have given up the sunbeds because they are so bad for you)

Answer 4

You've taken those words right out of my mouth!
PS. However, 'ethnic minorities' is not a term I would use to describe people of colour. A 'white' person can also be in an ethnic minority.

Answer 5

I truly understand what you are conveying to us all.
However, I'd like to point out that we are only humans.
As humans, it is natural for us to want things that we do not have.
It is not just with the colour of our skin but other parts of our bodies too.
That includes hair, nose shapes, face formations, breasts and so it goes on.
Could it be that you may not fully understand the human complexity as is.

Answer 6

Many people, of all colors and ethnic groups, reject discrimination and would like to see a society free of prejudice. Unfortunately, it is common for those who seek to eradicate bigotry to share some of the outlook of those they oppose, both in their view of differences between people and in the means they favor to eliminate ethnic inequity. They tend to share an unwillingness to see others as individuals instead of members of groups and both camps favor the use of government action and coercion to promote their agendas. Until such attitudes are replaced with a commitment to individuality and a rejection of force, efforts to create an equitable society are doomed to failure.

Whether assigning people to groups is done with the intention of discriminating against or helping someone, classifying individuals based on the color of their skin or their parentage conflicts with the individualist idea that each person is unique. People's beliefs and behavior are not determined by such superficial traits as ethnicity or primary language, and to assume that they are can only lead to misunderstanding. Individual personalities, desires, and habits are the result of an enormous number of different influences and people shortchange others when they try to reduce them to simply a sample of a larger group.

Viewing people as representatives of some ethnic "community" instead of as individuals leads opponents of inequity to support solutions to discrimination such as affirmative action. In such schemes, diversity is seen as more important than individual merit or fitness, and in order to make the ethnic numbers look good, institutions like colleges and corporations will give people "points" for their skin color when making admission or hiring decisions. Once upon a time, "tokenism" was looked down upon as a misguided "liberal" attempt to mask systemic discrimination, but now when a law school seeks out black students as tokens representing other black people so that the resulting ethnic mix "improves" the educational environment for others, it is seen by many as virtuous. If affirmative action programs focused on improving the lot of capable individuals by eliminating discrimination in hiring and admissions decisions they would be a worthy endeavor. Instead the emphasis is on how many tokens of how many different groups can be added to the mix to produce the right percentages to qualify as "diverse."

The problem with such programs is that when someone is helped by assigning value to physical characteristics, others are necessarily disadvantaged. Discrimination is discrimination, and when people are judged and rewarded differentially because of their ancestry, not because of something they have done or achieved, a sort of injustice has been done. And anyone who holds an individualistic or any other humanistic outlook cannot but oppose such essentially illiberal behavior.


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Answer 7

I totally agree with you. I like my skin tone. I don't know why everyone is trying to be something that they are not. It's weird, but hey, look at Michael Jackson.

Answer 8

I'm VERY proud of the colour that I am. Wouldn't want to be anything else.

Answer 9

Yeah, we are what we are. I know a girl with perfect yellow hair, she is planning to dye her hair into plain black.
And brown eyed people always dream of blue or green eyes.
Hard to believe...

Answer 10

i totally agree with u ...ppl are actin the opposites ..dark ppl are gettin fairer ..fair ppl gettin tans...... i wish ppl cus pay more attention to others personalities than their color of skin