Al_Frazelle Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Check the shocking racism on display in this Colombian festival... Blacking up AND whiting up on the go! https://rossjardine.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/carnival-blancas-y-negros-whites-and-blacks/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kumnio Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 People in Indonesia use cream to make them whiter. Being white is apparently a sign of wealth. Very big in Thailand as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 I'm not a right-on tree-hugger, but... Surely the issue of skin lightening is completely different. The equivalent of palefaces getting themselves a nice tan. But it's nothing to do with parodying another race. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 (edited) Very big in Thailand as well. It is a local asian snobbery thing and not a white supremacist thing. If you have a labouring job in Asia, i.e. roads, agriculture, you are in the blazing sun all day long, big hat and robes accepted... You are well toasted and have that farmers look of being well sunned. Yon posh asian types in contrast are in the shade, lounging by their mansion lake or perhaps doing office work, in a (now) air conned building... So the the rich are associated with 'pale' and the minkers 'suntanned'. This pale/rich perception goes back a long time in asia I understand. Edited February 8, 2015 by thplinth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pool Q Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 'Blacking up' has such an unpleasant history (Birth of a Nation being a particularly nasty example) that it shouldn't cross the mind of anyone with a shred of sense or decency. Well said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotlad Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 It is a local asian snobbery thing and not a white supremacist thing. If you have a labouring job in Asia, i.e. roads, agriculture, you are in the blazing sun all day long, big hat and robes accepted... You are well toasted and have that farmers look of being well sunned. Yon posh asian types in contrast are in the shade, lounging by their mansion lake or perhaps doing office work, in a (now) air conned building... So the the rich are associated with 'pale' and the minkers 'suntanned'. This pale/rich perception goes back a long time in asia I understand. Interesting. That's almost the exact opposite of western culture, where a suntan is considered a sign of wealth, i.e. you can afford to holiday in some exotic foreign climb (even though you've actually obtained your tan via a sunbed in some manky high street "salon" and in the process increased your chances of getting skin cancer exponentially). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pool Q Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Go back to Victorian and Edwardian times and attitudes were similar. A tan was associated with manual, often agricultural, labour. Fair skin was prized, particularly amongst women. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auchinyell Sox Change Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Interesting. That's almost the exact opposite of western culture, where a suntan is considered a sign of wealth, i.e. you can afford to holiday in some exotic foreign climb (even though you've actually obtained your tan via a sunbed in some manky high street "salon" and in the process increased your chances of getting skin cancer exponentially).Origins of term 'redneck' stems from guys/farmers working in the fieldsUsually easy to spot these days dressed in hunting camo in the local Walmart Anyone see the mad men episode where Roger blacked up but some characters still uneasy with it I know it's make believe but they always tried to highlight the attitudes of the time correctly - hiring of their first black secretary etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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