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[SURYADEV]

LOL
it even turns your hair blonde - 2in1 bargin for the girl who likes to travel light!

Is this obsession with turning white any different from europeans who want to turn darker - and risk skin cancer too!
I see it as simple as 'the ladoo in the others thali looks tastier than your own'. We all desire what we have not got. Its just that the makers of this ad don't seem at all sophisticated enough in thier game.

[dalsingh101]

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Is this obsession with turning white any different from europeans who want to turn darker - and risk skin cancer too!
I see it as simple as 'the ladoo in the others thali looks tastier than your own'.

I think you've got it wrong. A lot of Europeans who seriously tan still look down on genuinely brown people as beneath them. They don't have that adulation thing going on. If someone (for instance) said "You look like a Pakistani!" they are unlikely to see it as a compliment.

In contrast tell a white wannabe they look English (for example) and they are likely to gush.

Edited by dalsingh101, 13 December 2010 - 10:48 PM.

[Mithar]

LOL this was so funny!!! But it's so true.

Apne have such a bad inferiority complex. An example of this is a distant relative of mine. She is a young girl(24) who was born and bred in Punjab. Then some NRI man from America came to India and married her. She had a light brown skin colour and when she was married she had this beautiful long braided hair. Within a year of coming to America, she cut her braided hair (guth) to her shoulder length. She died her hair blond and started wearing blue contact lenses even though she has brown skin. She even began to try to speak with an American accent very strangely by speaking through her nose. All she accomplished was to be laughed at behind her back. Sadly this type of inferiority complex is very common amongst all South Asian people.

[SURYADEV]

dalsingh101, on 13 December 2010 - 10:25 PM, said:

I think you've got it wrong. A lot of Europeans who seriously tan still look down on genuinely brown people as beneath them. They don't have that adulation thing going on. If someone (for instance) said "You look like a Pakistani!" they are unlikely to see it as a compliment.

In contrast tell a white wannabe they look English (for example) and they are likely to gush.

you've got a point there dalsingh.
I tend to have a feeling that this inferiority complex mainly comes from the Indians back home rather than the ones in the west, or at least they make quite obvious to note.

[kdsingh80]

jattboot, on 14 December 2010 - 06:04 AM, said:

you've got a point there dalsingh.
I tend to have a feeling that this inferiority complex mainly comes from the Indians back home rather than the ones in the west, or at least they make quite obvious to note.

Those who live In Big Indian cities very well know That deep down in upper middle class and rich class there is White in Every Indian.It is not only obsession with skin .It is with everything.You can easily found gang of girls with western clothes chatting in English.parents speaking in english with their small children
Not only this If you speak english and you can't even solve simple maths sums ,you are considered as educated on the other hand if you are not good in English but you are damn good in Maths ,People still consider you as some type of Ganvaar ,pendu.In job market almost every candidate for good job have to go through GD and interveiew which is held in English.Many candidates that very good computer progamming or in their respective fields are booted out for not speaking fluent english in interviews.On the other hand many Girls who wear western clothes do make up and have modern hairstyles make through in companies even if their academic record is terrible
The biggest challenge small town or rural student face in cities is to sharpen their english ,because that is their only way to success.Now is it any wonder that Indians are obsessed with being White or western culture.

[Xylitol]

Many asian countries have an inferiority complex and some degree of adulation for the race which has the most power. In Japan, one of the most popular surgeries is a cosmetic surgery used to widen the eyes of japanese so they look more ''American''. A friend of mine who travelled in Japan to teach English told me that white people are treated very well there, but non Japanese asians are most definitely not. Same story for a friend of mine who travelled through China. His white friend was fawned over, while he (an Indian) was treated as being far less important.

[dalsingh101]

I think there is very often a strong relationship between how a group of people value each other and how they come to be valued by outsiders.

Indians obviously are somewhere towards the bottom of the barrel in this respect. I mean when a Brit or Yank dies abroad, look at the usual fuss made. Compare that to an Indian reaction.

[dalsingh101]

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