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Skin tone bias is independent of race, because it often manifests inside the race boundaries. Among Indians https://theconversation.com/bleached-girls-india-an

by Hitton 7y ago

Skin tone bias is independent of race, because it often manifests inside the race boundaries. Among Indians https://theconversation.com/bleached-girls-india-and-its-love-for-light-skin-80655 https://theconversation.com/bleached-girls-india-and-its-lov... Among African-Americans https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1988-35485-001 https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1988-35485-001 Among East Asians https://nextshark.com/east-asian-pale-skin-beauty-standard/ https://nextshark.com/east-asian-pale-skin-beauty-standard/ Difference Between Racism and Colorism: https://time.com/4512430/colorism-in-america/ https://time.com/4512430/colorism-in-america/

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benj111 7y ago
Ok fair enough, I was thinking about this from a western white person perspective. I still question whether this should be an ism though. The West kind of has/had these divisions. Pre 20th century having a tan was looked down on because it indicated you had to work in a field for a living. In the 20th century that kind of reversed because the rich could afford foreign holidays, now we have a situation where half of people wear fake tan, the other half look down on it. That all appears to be classism to me, rather than colourism? And if the colour difference is genetic, is that not racism? If I treat a black person differently it's racism, if I treat a person of mixed origin differently, that's also racism? If a black person treats a mixed origin person differently, is that not equally racism? It's tempting to think of all Indians or Africans as the same 'race' but I as a western European can be racist towards Eastern Europeans, and Jews, and Gypsies, if I were racist towards an Italian because they had a tan, that would be racism, not colourism? Is there something I'm missing?

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Skin tone bias is independent of race, because it often manifests inside the race boundaries. Among Indians https://theconversation.com/bleached-girls-india-an

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benj111 7y ago
Ok fair enough, I was thinking about this from a western white person perspective. I still question whether this should be an ism though. The West kind of has/had these divisions. Pre 20th century having a tan was looked down on because it indicated you had to work in a field for a living. In the 20th century that kind of reversed because the rich could afford foreign holidays, now we have a situation where half of people wear fake tan, the other half look down on it. That all appears to be classism to me, rather than colourism? And if the colour difference is genetic, is that not racism? If I treat a black person differently it's racism, if I treat a person of mixed origin differently, that's also racism? If a black person treats a mixed origin person differently, is that not equally racism? It's tempting to think of all Indians or Africans as the same 'race' but I as a western European can be racist towards Eastern Europeans, and Jews, and Gypsies, if I were racist towards an Italian because they had a tan, that would be racism, not colourism? Is there something I'm missing?