Videos about skin whitening on YT have 30+ million views

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Yeah, it's weird, especially if remember that white want to have brown skin.

>Different cultures, different ideals of beauty.

More like the universal ideal of beauty is someone "slightly tanned" (so when you're a whitey after tanning salon or an Indian/Black after home-made skin whitening)

The tanning salon fad is dead in most of the US now.

Caste system has nothing to do with skin colour. It's based on your parents profession. There are light skinned lower castes and dark skinned higher castes.

Bollywood and Indian TV industry casts very light skinned actors and actresses and most Indians try to emulate them.

Nah, Indians have very different ideas about what's attractive compared to us and it goes beyond skin colour. Same for Africans

>Bollywood and Indian TV industry casts very light skinned actors and actresses

but why

They find it beautiful.

Look up the trailer for an Indian/Australian movie on YouTube called UnIndian. 95% of the comments are people calling the lead actress ugly because she has dark skin.

Fair skin is seen as more attractive, I can't change that notion either, I always find lighter skinned girls prettier. It could have something to do with the caste system, but in much of South India, even upper caste people tend to be dark-skinned. Even though a vast majority of people are dark, films and movies tend to use a disproportionately large number of fair-skinned actors, particularly for female characters.

>though a vast majority of people are dark, films and movies tend to use a disproportionately large number of fair-skinned actors, particularly for female characters.

It's the same in Turkey or South America, so must be a universal thing.

>They find it beautiful.

Ok, so is it common than dark-skinned upper-caste people marry low-caste, but light-skinned girls?

It's not just India. All over South East Asia, the girls usually wear long sleeve clothes when they go out because they want to keep their skin pale. Conversely, Western women seem to love getting tanned (either real or fake tan). Rather than people wishing they were a different race, it's probably more to do with wanting to stand out from people around you.

I don't think it's standing out at all, most girls do it because every other girl does it here

lol

I imagine the general idea is that they think it makes them look exotic, although, ironically, the fact that every girl does it means it does the exact opposite. It's like how young adults like to go travelling because it makes them look cultured and sets them apart from their peers, but since lots of people do that it doesn't actually make them seem unique at all.

No, intercaste marriages don't really happen.

Light skin female even with little education= easily married
Dark skin female even with very high education= hard to get married

>Light skin female even with little education= easily married

even by upper caste people?

even if a girl is pretty and light skinned?

aren't your all bollywood movies about love between an upper class guy and lower class girl?

Bollywood is a fantasy realm, love marriages are extremely rare.

Are young people trying to change that?

even in cities?

>white countries people, especially women, want to have darker skin, they go to tanning salons etc
Different levels of development. In the west, being tanned means you have enough free time as to go to beaches. However, in less-developed countries, a tan is a mark of a lowly labourer.

We can't really do without it, to be honest, due to most males having very limited contact with females, and lack of a concept of "dating" in society.
Less rare in cities. My own parents had an inter-caste love marriage.

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stop with the white worship india, this is retarded

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Becausr they are bullied for being brown.

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>may whiter skin help you in life in India?
Not for long.
youtube.com/watch?v=Xl0b2LGf9jM

>make their life better
because light skin is considered a sign of status and beauty in india.

>My own parents had an inter-caste love marriage.

So which caste do you belong to now? And how does it affect your life?

>a sign of status

but why if it was said that the caste division doesn't have anything to do with skin color?

its the next form of colonial conquest of yurope...their fake "degrees" in computer engineering + white skin pajeet thinks yuropoors wont mind them shitting on their streets.

Question you should be asking is why us "whites" shouldnt be googling how to darken our skin and lower our IQs and infiltrate their nigger societies.

I inherted my father's caste.
There is a greater prevalence of fairer skin among upper castes.

>I inherted my father's caste.

It's the better or worse one? And what does it even mean "inherited", how does it work? There is some kind of a commission that rules on whether the child of a mixed couple belongs to one or another caste?

I'd really love to know how this thing works irl. Do you have different lines in shops for different castes? Is it like apartheid in South Africa? Are you asked about your caste during a job interview? Or when you want to go to a better school?

because it doesn't, i'vd literally never heard of people whitening their skin because the brahmin was fair, it's because it looks good to us and shows that you can afford grooming yourself. pajeets who are dark as fuck don't go for skin-lightening, it's the guys who get tanned and have naturally light skin.

quora.com/Can-I-change-my-caste-category-from-general-to-OBC-I-really-do-belong-to-OBC-but-my-class-10-certificate-has-general-written-on-it

>Can I change my caste category from general to OBC? I really do belong to OBC, but my class 10 certificate has general written on it.

lol, I thought this caste shit is just only about traditions/religion but it seems these castes are legally recognized, so it's like apartheid indeed

why isn't India internationally isolated like South Africa was then?

Be nice to Pootlantis, dey literally dindu nuffin.

its more like affirmative action than apartheid.
you get more gibs from the government the lower you are on the hierarchy.

I tried to read something about it but it's really complicated.

As far as I understand, the "worst" castes are SC, ST and OBC (but it's more an official division than the religious one) and the best castes are called "general".

But who decides whether you belong to a certain caste? I mean, if you go to an office and tell them that you're SC, but you're in fact "general", do you have to prove it in some way or they will just accept what you said? What if you're an atheist and you simply don't care about this caste shit? Or you're from an immigrant family (white British, let's say),do they also get a caste?

We also had a similar, very strict division between nobles, city dwellers and peasants but it had disappeared by the end of 19th century.

idiota

>It's the better or worse one?
My mother's caste is higher.
>And what does it even mean "inherited", how does it work? There is some kind of a commission that rules on whether the child of a mixed couple belongs to one or another caste?
Not so sure. In my case it is the same as inheriting your father's surname.
>Do you have different lines in shops for different castes?
No.
>Is it like apartheid in South Africa?
In rural areas, yes. I have heard about caste discrimination in rural areas, but I can't say for certain how prevalent it is.
>Are you asked about your caste during a job interview? Or when you want to go to a better school?
Yes. Castes that are categorised as OBC (other backward castes) and SC/ST (scheduled castes/scheduled tribes) are given affirmative action.

>I mean, if you go to an office and tell them that you're SC, but you're in fact "general", do you have to prove it in some way or they will just accept what you said?
You have to bring a obtain a caste certificate that certifies that you belong to do and so caste and you are entitled to affirmative action. I'm not so sure how it works.
>What if you're an atheist and you simply don't care about this caste shit? Or you're from an immigrant family (white British, let's say), do they also get a caste?
In all these cases you are default "General" category. Also I don't think "atheist" is legally defined in India, but anyway, if you don't want to identify as a part of a caste, you are default General.

This goes back thousands of years... Aryan Invaders were tall, fair-skinned and pale-eyed. They created the caste system to maintain racial purity. Did not work and there was an insane amount of racial mixing with the Aryans bleaching the native women.

Eventually, the mixing stopped and self-segregation came back. North-West Indians retained most of their ancestral Indo-Aryan DNA while Central Indians became a mutt race & South Indians stayed Dravidian.

Ideal beauty standards = caucasian features & fair-skin. So the caucasian part of the population gets movie/TV roles and is overrepresented in culture.

In 2018, a combination of caste/race/ethnos/beauty-standards leads to fair-skin being extremely prized in India. Has nothing to do with working outside or staying inside lol.

i'll take ur dark skinned qts off your hands

Are there people who live outside the caste system in India? I'm not talking about the lowest caste, but people who simply don't participate in the system at all.

Also, how strange did you find it when you first found out that that many countries don't have caste systems?

CJ
I gotta whole lot going on, and
I'm tired. I'll catch ya'll later.

>but people who simply don't participate in the system at all.
Caste system is not prevalent in certain regions in India like Kashmir and Northeast. Incidentally, these regions also have active separatist movements.

Many non-Hindus and people of tribal communities are caste-unmarked.
>Also, how strange did you find it when you first found out that that many countries don't have caste systems?
I don't think I knew what caste was until I was eight or nine, and it must have been introduced to me as a concept exclusive to India. I was surprised later to know that caste systems exist/existed outside India as well (Bali, Latin America etc.)