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Irishman:
The pale skin thing is weird. I was shopping for soap there and every one of them had "whitening" listed as a property (anotherwords bleach!) , in the end i just bough some Johnsons baby soap as i sure as hell dont need to bleach my laowai, whiter than snow, skin any more white!

Check out the amount of umbrellas in the picture below (at back entrance to Forbidden City, Beijing a couple of weeks ago) it wasn't raining by the way!

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Ling said she isnt bothered by this but when I took a photo of her with her friend and granny at her apartment, after we got back from Malaysia, the first comment she made was how dark she looked with dismay on her face.
Personally I love the darker skin but each to their own i guess.

David5o:
Ronan,

This thing about being light and dark skinned. This stems from the assumption that if your are dark skinned, you are associated as being a peasant, that works in the fields or being from a peasant family .

Now days even the peasants don't want to be dark, if you go out in the countryside you'll see all the field workers wrapped up to the nine's to stop them getting any darker. you've seen from the shops, just how far their prepared to go to keep there skin lighter too!! ...haha!!

It's exactly the same thing in most of the Asian, and South East Asian countries. Even here in Cyprus, we have Filipinos working out in the open, and even in 40c heat, you can't see a single area of skin, they even work in the darkest sunglasses you can buy !! ...hahaha!!

So there you have it, they don't want to be associated as being from a peasant family!!


David.....

ahkiwi:

--- Quote from: 'David5o' pid='14356' dateline='1251314150' ---So there you have it, they don't want to be associated as being from a peasant family!!

David.....

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It's weird isn't it, in the west being pasty white is a bad thing and "unhealthy" so everyone is try to get a tan, lol

Maybe if we told them "you look like a peasant" they'll cover up and stop getting skin cancer.

Humans, strange creatures

(we need a /facepalm icon :icon_cheesygrin:)

yoshiii:
Same in Japan. But mostly its the older women(40 plus who are paranoid about getting darker) that walk around trying not to become dark.

Do the women from the different parts of China have different shades of skin tone?  I have noticed that some of the pictures that I see of women from mainland seem to be darker compared to their pictures, where I have friends  that are from Taiwan  that are a lighter shade of the Chinese skin tone.  
It doesn't  matter to me about their skin color, but it is kind of odd that they are so concerned about whitening their skin.
It is backwards from the states.  
Here in Japan their is a difference between people from Okinawa and people from the mainland of Japan.
Most of the Chinese ladies that I see here are lighter in color.

David E:
mmmmmmmm.........
Dont get me started on this theme again...makes my blood boil. !!!!!
Their photos are "photo-shopped", back lit, and tone enhanced, often a wig is used to get more "curly" hair...and of course, a push-up bra is mandatory !!!.
As I was told by 2 Agencies...........it makes them fit more into what they think is attractive to western men.
What you see aint what you get.
If when you see her in reality and you think she is better than the photo...no problem.

But if not............cheated !!
I wish, I wish they wouldnt do it....but they wont stop, gets more EMF's that way
DavidE

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