Indians ashamed of their own skins?

IN India, there's a huge market for fairness creams. They all want to have whiter skins [most of them]. What can you expect from a country where people want to change the colour of their very skins? And then we say proud to be Indian?
Indians ashamed of their own skins?
Indians may say that they are not ashamed of their skins....but they are, really.Look at the advertisements in the Brides Wanted columns....everyone wants a fair bride....no matter how qualified the girl may be.She will never be considered pretty, let alone beautiful if she is not fair......and if she isn't, no one wants her as a wife/daughter-in-law.Little girls are told not to play in the sun....if they get tanned and their skin becomes dark they are told that they will never find husbands when they are older.Nowadays, it seems you do not even land a job of your choice if you are dark.....this may be the hype made by fairness creams that sell faster than hotcakes in the Indian market.....but it must be based on atleast a sliver of reality.Young girls are always taught to be paranoid about their complexion....but young men, too are facing the same problem.....if they are dark they may not get brides....after all one must think about their future children.....


Krishna bhagwan and Kali mata may be dark skinned but god help the mere mortal who is unfortunate to be so , too.
Indians ashamed of their own skins?
In fairness (sic), it's not just India. Skin lightening creams are hugely popular throughout Asia.
Reply:you are right i am black and everyone tease me black but i am proud that i am black what to shame about skin colour we should be good from in not out. Girls think they should be white though they should not think so the do not know that we should be what we are.
Reply:it is very UNFAIR to say that!!!!!!
Reply:I dont think so. Just because u want to be a lil fair doesnt mean that u r ashamed of ur skin colour.
Reply:I think its the residual effect of the cast system and the need to be considered as important or have a sense of self worth. your making a huge generalisation though. im indian and im fine with my skin colour. being indian i do understand what your talking about. i really think its just cos all the years in india it has been the social norm that the whiter you are the higher up in the cast sysytem you end up so people want to be seen as more worthy/valuable.
Reply:every man wants to make some alternation of his body colour,and other beauty making action.


here India is no exception, it is a universal habit, it stat from the stone age.
Reply:Indians never ashamed of their skin if Indians ashamed of their skin then certainly they use WHITE PAINT rather than Fairness Cream





Indian HINDUS also Worship LORD KRISHANA I think You better know the skin colour of LORD KRISHANA.


Indians Muslims never Paint Their GOD KHUDA in their stories like the skin of lord JISUS .





Some Indians who convert himself in Christian religion not due to lord JISUS white skin but due to some other reasons


while using fairness cream nothing wrong to say proud to be an INDIAN.
Reply:We are not ashamed of our skin colour.I think your thinking is a bit in a prejudice way.If at all anybody wants to be fairer, it is just his / her own thinking. No way it is concern with their Indianness. Don't be nervous, I hope the Indians will definitely act,in future, to their full potential. Whoever and wherever you may be, campaign for good ,value based and quality education. I think it will remove all the flaws in our thinking.
Reply:I think there is no metter of skin.
Reply:a debatable question..!!
Reply:i dont want to change the coour of my skin i m dark brown and oily it suits it seems very hot and sexy
Reply:This is a very tricky topic and I myself am lost as to where I stand. I used to think that the Indian obsession with fair skin had more to do with beauty as opposed to a feeling of racial inferiority. I also used to think that it was mainly women that were obsessed with fair skin.





However I know think that a feeling of racial inferiority does have something to do with it. It has nothing to do with the British but the last 13 centuries of living under foreign occupation. First the Muslims and then the British. Many Indians are not proud of being Indian. But I also think that the pro-left anti-Hindu media and the Bollywood movie industry greatly encourage this negative feeling towards everthing that is Indian and everything that is Hindu.





Moreover it absolutely makes my blood boil when Indians feel the need to lie about their ethnicity and try and pass themselves off as being Greek, Mediterrannean etc. If Indians themselves as a civilisation do not have any respect, pride and appreciation for their race, religion and ethnicity how can they possibly command respect from other races and civilisations.
Reply:I'm Punjabi so I'm fair anyway but all you south Indians are as black as s*it.





"Black people walk past south Indians and go damn that n*gga black"





Russell Peters joke lol funny. You should check him out.
Reply:To glamorise is not sinful or an inferiority complex. Nor it is a British legacy. Cosmetic industry is only thriving on the basic instinct of skin colour which is a phenomenon.