A British company has today launched a skin-lightening lotion targeted at black and Asian people. Is this sick

I was astonished to read the press release from this company. It's marketing this stuff to "the Black and Asian community as a most effective skin lightening cream". I thought this kind of thing had gone out with the ark and that nowadays people with dark skin were proud of how they look.

A British company has today launched a skin-lightening lotion targeted at black and Asian people. Is this sick
wha !!!!!!!!!!





I love love love my chocolate skin. Not trying to be lighter. It's what I was born with, and it's what I will die with.
Reply:according to me colour doesn't effect
Reply:Unfortunately, people still fall for these things. Especially here in Asia, they see light skin as a good thing---you see women walking with umbrellas in the summer because they don't want the sun to tan their skin. I play tennis all the time, so imagine my Chinese grandparents' reaction when they saw MY skin---I don't think any skin-lightening lotion could've done me justice!
Reply:This is nothing new. As far back as 50 years ago there was plastic surgery to change the way Asian eyes look, so they would look more Anglo. There have long been creams to lighten skin tone.





There is no reason to be ashamed of one's ethnic identity. If some people want to change themselves, this isn't new either. It is up to the individual, I suppose. People do as they like.





They want to force change to the shapes of their bodies, and body parts through extreme diet and exercise, how is that different from a lightening cream? People bake in the sun and go to tanning salons because they want darker skin. Is that better or worse?





If you look at it as just another way to look the way one wants to, is it still sick?
Reply:There are many beautiful Black ladies in Jamaica who choose to use these potentially harmful preparations in an attempt to lighten their skin tone. Nobody forces them. Many Black men encourage it because the majority of dark-complexion men prefer a lighter-complexion woman. Speaking as a white guy who has been with Black women for 32 years, I believe that the dark-complexion woman possesses a beauty and elegance that the lighter-complexion females lack. If a British company has indeed launched such a product, it will be competing with many similar such products on sale throughout the world.
Reply:Why should it be sick? Caucasians use artificial sun tanning lotions in an attempt to look brown, do you condemn that practice equally?
Reply:Maybe it is not what you think.


Maybe some people want and/or need it.


Just think of how hot people that are really really black get! Not being mean or racist, just somethings I can think of that they might consider making this product.


It is definitely odd, why would they want to darken?


Well, maybe it is the same as white people wanting to tan............


Just something that might have to do with it...................





And why would this be any different from white people using tanning lotion?


Are you only bringing this up because


1. It is new


2. It is for black people?


Sounds like it.
Reply:I thought skin bleachers were illegal!


I think it's a case of the grass being greener, whites want to be dark, dark skinned people want to be white. It's quite vain really! I'm a pale and interesting red head...and proud:)


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