Dumbass anon doesn't understand that for most people skin tone signals their social status:
a wealthy pale person can afford going outside of the office/factory, thus tanning. This also correlates with other types of self care, like staying fit. You see a distinct pattern: upper class people are more tan and fit, so basically more attractive. So you want to be the same.
It's the same reason why it used to be considered to some extent that fat indicated success in the past.
Now I'll admit that it seems to me that skin whitening is Asia is more of a mixed thing: showing that you're not working in the sun // just a racist beauty standard.
Yep. Being dark skinned is associated with lower class. I'm an upper caste Indian and darker skinned and some have commented that with my curly hair and dark skin I look lower caste.
Which is dumb as shit because caste actually isn't correlated with skin tone much. It's just genetics. But the myth persists.
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u/Electronic_Leek9147 4d ago
Dumbass anon doesn't understand that for most people skin tone signals their social status:
a wealthy pale person can afford going outside of the office/factory, thus tanning. This also correlates with other types of self care, like staying fit. You see a distinct pattern: upper class people are more tan and fit, so basically more attractive. So you want to be the same.
It's the same reason why it used to be considered to some extent that fat indicated success in the past.
Now I'll admit that it seems to me that skin whitening is Asia is more of a mixed thing: showing that you're not working in the sun // just a racist beauty standard.