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Tackling India''s ''Snow White syndrome''


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Madan Waghmare
Why all the fashion magazine are nudity biased???
by Madan Waghmare on Apr 16, 2010 06:22 PM

Why all the fashion magazine are nudity biased???
Should some magazine fill all the females with some colourful clothes


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Bamini murthy
Indian obsession with fair skin
by Bamini murthy on Apr 16, 2010 10:53 AM

I hope the Vogue which is one of the leading fashion magazine dispels that fair skin is beautiful concept. All matrimonial adv. modeling assignment vacancies in various fields opt for fair skin ladies. This is more in ladies than in gents. (India is a male dominated society) It really bugs me when they show fairness creams with result in 7 days. I know of people using it for n number of years with the same complexion. All you people in commanding positions in the field of advertisements, modeling, fashion shows, etc are in a better position to remove this OBSESSION.

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neelima d
Truth about India.
by neelima d on Apr 15, 2010 04:18 AM  | Hide replies

Biggest Racist in the world is our own country.

We discriminate not only on color but

1) Boy over Girl
2) North over South
3) Rich over Poor
4) Upper caste over Lower caste
5) White skin over Black skin

I believe we inheritedt his divide n rule policy from british.It will take ages to overcome this.

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Gaurav Kapoor
Re: Truth about India.
by Gaurav Kapoor on Apr 15, 2010 07:43 AM


neelima, at the risk of sounding "racist", I must correct you.

What you are listing are examples of discrimination.

But it is not simply a case of black and white. There are many shades of gray in between.

And BTW discrimination usually based on who is in majority.

Especially in the case of your North over South point.

South Indian are capable of the same discrimination when their numbers allow them to regardless of where they are.

I have witnessed many cases in North Indian cities where South Indians form groups of fellow South Indians in companies and create barriers to the entry of Non-South Indian.

And for your kind information we will never give up this tendency to discriminate. It is not inherited from the British. We have been like this for 5000 years!!

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sreedharan raman
Re: Re: Truth about India.
by sreedharan raman on Apr 17, 2010 11:30 PM
itna gussa kaisa aagaya bhai mere? waise bhi yeha bhi aisa hi kuch horaha hai. kudh ko bhi thoda dekh le?

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Sama Saymin
Re: Truth about India.
by Sama Saymin on Apr 19, 2010 08:51 AM
It called better 'discrimination'
on the basis of majority and minority! It depends for everything as religion,languages,power of money,power of locality,power of voice and power of politics, terrorism of strength!It happens all over India with Muslim vs Hindu/ Hindu vs Christian and all other minorities.THE BIGGEST MIXED & CULTURALLY BIASED country in this world.

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giveanid
Re: Truth about India.
by giveanid on Apr 19, 2010 08:48 AM
2) North over South????

Jeez! Who would ever do that? I thought it was South over North!

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deepak aggarwal
Re: Truth about India.
by deepak aggarwal on Apr 15, 2010 07:26 AM
Yaaa, You are quite right and I think it's all becs of the mentality we have from the time of before 1947.


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The Patriot
If color is not the objective
by The Patriot on Apr 15, 2010 01:40 AM  | Hide replies

why r fairness cream ads r shown and not ads on darkness creams????

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Gaurav Kapoor
Re: If color is not the objective
by Gaurav Kapoor on Apr 15, 2010 07:46 AM


Yes they do. Not in India but in the West!

These "creams" are called Spray-on Tans which makes pasty, albino white people look exotic in Summer!!

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ratish menon
M Jackson
by ratish menon on Apr 14, 2010 09:27 PM  | Hide replies

He sings '' It no matter if yur black or white '' - but I WONDER why he did plastic surgery to get his skin tone to white like a dough from black like a crow.

I personally think why noone likes black is because all ugly animals are black - Crow ( yuck ), Black Mamba ( Most posionus snake on earth ) and all sexy lookin creatures are white - blondes, love birds etc .....

Comments and views invited

Alvin Thomas/ Ritish Menon/ Mrs Mathews

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Arun
Re: M Jackson
by Arun on Apr 15, 2010 01:14 AM
love birds are white? lol... blondes aint have no brains... and so are mallus...

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Tamil Indian
Re: M Jackson
by Tamil Indian on Apr 19, 2010 08:52 AM
he had a skin condition - he did plastic surgeries to change his face shape

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vivek
Men almost always prefer looks over brain
by vivek on Apr 14, 2010 04:43 PM

I tell you the secret about men: We almost always prefer looks over brain.

Women almost always prefer abundance of resources over looks.

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Eknath
complexion
by Eknath on Apr 14, 2010 04:27 PM  | Hide replies

Yes of course.We have to do something to remove color prejudice, Include dark complexioned girls also for beauty contexts ,let them get the prize also.

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Sisir Biswas
Re: complexion
by Sisir Biswas on Apr 16, 2010 03:54 PM
There is no prejudice in selecting a dark complexion girl for the beauty queen. I know once a Nigerian girl with dark complexion won Miss world competetion. However, it depends on who is in the judge's seat. in Indian society, the women are the biggest enemy of women as far as the dark complexion is concerned. For a marriage of their son, the women in the family will first to object for a dark complexioned girl. It is the mentality of our society prevailing since more than 5000 years ago. It has no relation with British rule.

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gopal narayan
if someone wants white skin its their choice
by gopal narayan on Apr 14, 2010 04:25 PM  | Hide replies


if someone wants white skin its their choice,look at bollywook,katrina,kareena,
etc...

even the dancers in videos r white babes,and even ipl cheer leaders r white.

so we indians prefer white skin and so what ?

its a person's chioce,we cant dictate anyone.

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Arun
Re: if someone wants white skin its their choice
by Arun on Apr 15, 2010 01:15 AM
But who on earth considered to be white 'cos u r the fairer indian? you are a mere dark skinner in the west. So, stop living in fools paradise...

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Tessi Sherrin
Re: Re: if someone wants white skin its their choice
by Tessi Sherrin on Apr 17, 2010 07:16 AM
Just remember our ancestors are from Africa...so stop sweating about it

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Gautaman T
Fair is Fair?
by Gautaman T on Apr 14, 2010 04:00 PM  | Hide replies

It is mostly a media creation. Our movies and our advertisers have shown fair skin to be a desirable objective. We see very little movies in which the heroine is dark or brown, even though, according to the script, she is an orphan growing up in a slum! The media has to be pressurised to underplay the prominence given to fair skin. But who will bell the cat?

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Souvik Jana
Re: Fair is Fair?
by Souvik Jana on Apr 15, 2010 10:37 AM
Freida Pinto is dark skinned... and look where she is now...

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