When white people tan, do they wanna get darker?

Question

Years ago, whites praised their pale peached/ red color and a few years ago tans has grown to become something popular. ..for the white population, asian, hispanic and light-skinned blacks. Why do they wanna get darker? Are they more intreged with darker colors, like tan, light brown and brown? Really it's not for health, it's for fashion. No one losses weight fot health but for better self-confidence. I'm I right?

Answer 1

You answered your own question, but I like to tan to look healthier. A richer skin color gives a healthy appearance to someone, as opposed to what I looked like in February with the flu. My skin was pale and my *** was dragging.

Answer 2

Back in victorian times, it was fashionable to be pale. It meant you were rich, you didnt have to toil out in the fields and the sun all day. Nowadays, its fashionable to be tanned for the reverse. Rich people can afford to go on expensive holidays to places like the caribbean, where they get sun tans, so a tan is an obvious sign of wealth. Being pale means that your poor. Secondly, the more tanned you are, the skinnier you look. If your pale, you look a lot more flabby. Also scars, spots and imperfections show up a LOT more easily. However, im pale, and i love it. I know if i wore fake tan id look a little slimmer, but im unique as more people are tanned than not. I have an instant halloween costume, i can be a vampire =P and also, i love history, so im with the victorians. Hope it answers your q!

Answer 3

That's not always the case. I know Indians (I'm not talking about Native Americans) who don't like to get darker. Also, in South America, the lighter your skin, the more you are respected and considered higher up in the social ranks. And if you've noticed anything about older caucasians, the ones who liked to be tan all of the time usually have the wrinkly, leather skin look. Only the teenage, twenties, maybe thirties crowd truly care a lot about their tan. Any older than that makes you look like cow hide.

Answer 4

Society has always equated looking pale with being sick or sickly. Therefore, tanning or having a 'glow' supposedly equals good health. Also, it hasn't hurt that advertising has absolutely blitzed newspaper, magazine and tv ads with toned and tanned bodies, as if this was the ideal to look up to. It's not that white people are fixated or intrigued with being darker - they're just programmed. And as for no one losing weight for health, that is dead wrong. Millions of people lose weight because of health related conditions they want to avoid (heart disease, diabetes, etc.). Increased self confidence is just a by-product of weight loss.

Answer 5

Yes i think so. Anybody will tell you white people look so much better with a tan as do light skinned non whites.

Answer 6

Honestly, you can thank advertisement company's for making people feel as if their naturally light skin is "unhealthy" and "sickly" looking, while these same corporations are telling naturally dark people that "light" skin is the way to go. It's all a ploy to get people to buy their products.

Answer 7

I tan.. I'm a really lightskinned black chick, and I think tanning is sexy! I have no desire to be dark skinned, I just want that "tanned" look. There is a difference.

Answer 8

People used to associate a tan with the lower classes, as they worked outside, but now it's associated with affluence (foreign holidays etc).

Answer 9

I like having a tan. Kind of coffee and creme color. White white people look like they are sick. Kind of scary looking.
ps - I'm white, but tan.

Answer 10

Brown skin looks healthier than milky white. End of story.