• saltesc@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Their cultural obsession with white skin has always been weird/cringe to me.

    It’s like they got these people but the other way around…

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      7 months ago

      It’s because historically dark skin meant you worked in the fields and were extremely poor.

      Light skin meant you did not perform any manual labour and was a sign of wealth.

      The blonde hair part is the weirdest bit to me.

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        7 months ago

        That was the stereotype in the west too, it only reversed when having a tan meant you were wealthy enough to have been on a summer holiday somewhere sunny!

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        7 months ago

        I googled and apparently the ganguro style has died out which makes me feel old.

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      7 months ago

      That’s Asia in general. Grass is greener thing, with the west being the opposite (obsessed with getting a tan).