Thai racist skin whitening commercials

[En_Sabah_Nur 9,359]

5 hours ago, RAMROD said:

Similiar but not the same. South East and East Asians have obsessions with fair skin. Because it is considered as pretty and high class. Especially the women. It is rooting wayyyy back, hundreda of years ago, where many people who lives in palace are all having fair skin while the peasants are yellow skinned. Every literature coming frim this age would mentioned it as well. It is nothing to do with race, in the West we use labels like black, white, brown, yellow, red to express race, but skin tone does not divide people up in Asia in the same way. 

Instead of indicating race, skin color is directly connected to class. If your skin is dark it is like you work in the fields. Working in the fields = poor.

While in the West, people obsessed in being tanned simply because it's exotic and nothing to with class or anything.

Oh really!???  So how do you explain this Chinese ad then, which is now going viral on FB??  

 

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5 hours ago, Derpplause said:

Michael Jackson had a skin depigmentation disease, vitiligo, which made him obsessed to even out his skin by using make up. A lot of people have this disease, some very subtle and some very extreme like Michael. Even Michael's oldest son has it 

Michael Jackson

Michael Prince Jackson

Chantal Brown Young

 

 

Chantal's case of vitiligo is WAYYYYYY worse than Michael's was, and I'm still laughing at the fact that people still believe that Prince Michael or any of his children are Actually his biological children.!!!  Lmao 

 

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If Africa was the richest continent then Asians would be dying their skin black. I don't think Asian racism is on the same level as Western racism. Very few Asians have ever seen a black person, so their disdain for dark skin is likely just a "fear of the unknown", or simply ignorance. So I believe Asian racism is more classism. Whereas Western racism is more about prejudice. It's more complex and has links with slavery and colonialism.

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6 hours ago, Sexxx said:

Yeah basically

Fair skin is celebrated in Asian countries

Yeah. My grandmother (who is Filipino) and all her friends told my sister that she's pretty much on par with the "Mestiza" (sp?) models in the Philippines because she (and I) are half white and are a tan/olive-skin tone, lighter than many Filipino people (my dad is full-blooded Filipino and he's as dark as some black people lol)

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1 hour ago, En_Sabah_Nur said:

Oh really!???  So how do you explain this Chinese ad then, which is now going viral on FB??  

 

 

I have already did, read again. Black skin regardles where they from are deemed low class and not pretty in Asia, and most people there sought to be fair skin. Women especially want to be fair skin because no men will date them if they are tanned. They don't get the concept of racism. This ad for them simply to symbolise that the detergent is so powerful and are cleaning out the dirt it that turns dark skinned fair.

The fact it went viral, it because some one uploaded it online and all Westerners who get the concept of racism watched it and think it is racist. But none of their people there think it is.

 

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3 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

 

I have already did, read again. Black skin regardles where they from are deemed low class and not pretty in Asia, and most people there sought to be fair skin. Women especially want to be fair skin because no men will date them if they are tanned. They don't get the concept of racism. This ad for them simply to symbolise that the detergent is so powerful and are cleaning out the dirt it that turns dark skinned fair.

The fact it went viral, it because some one uploaded it online and all Westerners who get the concept of racism watched it and think it is racist. But none of their people there think it is.

 

They couldn't have just gotten a dark skinned Asian person then??

 

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6 minutes ago, En_Sabah_Nur said:

They couldn't have just gotten a dark skinned Asian person then??

 

I believe they would if they can find one. But they might not able to since the beauty standards are so high. There are Uighur people but majority of people there didn't fxck with them. Besides getting foreign people to starred in their product ads are all about prestige down there.

 

 

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1 minute ago, RAMROD said:

I believe they would if they can find one. But they might not able to since the beauty standards are so high. There are Uighur people but majority of people there didn't fxck with them. Besides getting foreign people to starred in their product ads are all about prestige down there.

 

 

Hmmmmmmmmm  

 

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Just now, En_Sabah_Nur said:

Hmmmmmmmmm  

 

Really, I don't think all these Asian ads and TV shows that depicted foreigners in the most stereotypical way was done under racism. Even in anime these days, there are still so many of it, Caucasian characters with blonde eyes and big pointy nose, African characters with fat lips and braids and listen to hip hop, Tribal people with tribal attire and cannibalistic, and all that. That just what they know. They are simply uninformed since Asian countries are very one dimensional.

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13 hours ago, En_Sabah_Nur said:

Chantal's case of vitiligo is WAYYYYYY worse than Michael's was, and I'm still laughing at the fact that people still believe that Prince Michael or any of his children are Actually his biological children.!!!  Lmao 

 

yeah I know prince michael is most likely not blood related, but I wanted to showcase that people of all skin complexions can have vitiligo. Eitherway you say Michael's vitiligo wasn't worse than Chantal, but it actually was, there are multiple documentary where it was mentioned that during the late 80s/ early 90s he seemed to have the majorty of his body being depigmentated by the disease. The reason he walked around with an umbrella later on was to prevent his skin being exposed to the UV rays of the sun (to prevent skin cancers, etc)

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23 minutes ago, Derpplause said:

yeah I know prince michael is most likely not blood related, but I wanted to showcase that people of all skin complexions can have vitiligo. Eitherway you say Michael's vitiligo wasn't worse than Chantal, but it actually was, there are multiple documentary where it was mentioned that during the late 80s/ early 90s he seemed to have the majorty of his body being depigmentated by the disease. The reason he walked around with an umbrella later on was to prevent his skin being exposed to the UV rays of the sun (to prevent skin cancers, etc)

So you mean to tell me vitiligo turned all of his body porcelain white???

 

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6 minutes ago, En_Sabah_Nur said:

So you mean to tell me vitiligo turned all of his body porcelain white???

 

Some people have a severe condition of vitiligo, I'm not sure if Michael had that, but I think he had the extreme condition. During the late 80s up to the late 90s  he used  a combination of makeup and some skin whitening creams to even out the blotches that weren't depigmentated, I'm not sure if over time he was completely depigmentated. I think for aesthetic reasons/ image reasons he wanted to evenout his skin to be fair instead of it being irregularly blotched. 

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9 minutes ago, Derpplause said:

Some people have a severe condition of vitiligo, I'm not sure if Michael had that, but I think he had the extreme condition. During the late 80s up to the late 90s  he used  a combination of makeup and some skin whitening creams to even out the blotches that weren't depigmentated, I'm not sure if over time he was completely depigmentated. I think for aesthetic reasons/ image reasons he wanted to evenout his skin to be fair instead of it being irregularly blotched. 

Hmmmmmmm

 

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It blows my mind how this stuff is still acceptable in modern society, even in more traditionalist settings like Asia. Political correctness has its downsides but it has its upsides too and one of them is that we don't get s**t like this in the West but it clearly hasn't translated elsewhere. Although we still get the occasional surprise in the West, it's just more subtle. And why people of colour want to be a part of it is beyond me. The advert about the black man and the balloon is one of the saddest ads I've ever seen and it's shocking how that kind of imagery (being compared to nothing more than an identity-free black slab) still isn't seen as offensive in some cultures. The multi-billion dollar skin bleaching industry in Asia is also terrifying. Is no one over there aware of the cancerogenic nature of that stuff?

16 hours ago, En_Sabah_Nur said:

Oh really!???  So how do you explain this Chinese ad then, which is now going viral on FB??  

 

 

This was a copy of an existing ad from Italy several years before. Just shows that racism plays out in different ways all over the world: