A Question of South Asian Coloring: International Blog Against Racism Week.
According to my mother, I don't tan the same way that real Sri Lankans, who grew up in Sri Lanka, do. When it's summer and my skin starts to darken, it goes reddish-brown-golden. If I had grown up in Sri Lanka, my mother says that it would just go browner. Darker. The additional color boost of red wouldn't be in there, since the red is the brown-
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And I have heard the Halle Berry thing before, too. Which, in a sense, I think sucks for those that are fairer skinned, too. At least for those that aren't "intentionally" making themselves that way (a la those creams; which are... wtf? o.o Sounds a LOT more harmful and unsafe then tanning which = not cool to me. Anything one does to their body that can be unsafe or unhealthy? Not cool.) As they have to proove that it's not just their skin that is gaining them the more popular views.
And, yeah, media has a tendency to NOT help when they COULD be the ones that make "all the difference"... Since we hear more often of those that are changing their body-type (as in weight, mostly). Though, there are a lot of those that tan, too, for the darker tone... I do think, though, that there NEEDS to be a variety of body-types (between size, skin-tone/colour - etc) in the media - more touched upon, more shown. More to show that it's OKAY to not fit a certain label. More of the different parts of the world that show that there's more then what the media originally offers.
Would be nice, at least. For everyone. *would use flag icon, but currently out of userpic usage AND is going to leave this journal soon anyways xD*
And yeah, not a large victory. I think it's a start, but a slow start at that ~_~; Pretty sad when people want to point out how "far we've come" on certain things and then take a step back and look at stuff like this. Not all that far, at all.
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