Let this video do the talking:
And believe me, I've seen even more pompous crap like
this. Ever seen something soo retarded that you stand there looking all awe-struck? Not sure about you but me, plenty. I mean..what's wrong with being brown?
Does being a few tones fairer make you better all of sudden?
And what's the deal with always picking the most fairest people for these ads? Do they really thing think that we're THAT gullible?
Here's a another piece of stupidity:
The idea is that "If your not white enough, the man of your dreams will never love you".
Despite the fact that the main role is played by Miss World 2000 Priyanka Chopra, the ex-boyfriend still can't get over her icky-browness and takes off his sun-glasses and stares at her for a few seconds to take it all in.
It's a 4-Part series so the girl eventually wins him back though use of her new Ponds 'whitening product'. I'd like to think that the antagonist wins him back again by further whitening her skin. Funny, how in the next episode the women in the advert becomes newly confident (all thanks to her new 'fair' skin of course).
The South-Asian fairness Industry is worth millions of dollars and it's growing (sadly). Matrimonial ads always include long descriptions of a potential mate's complexion.
It's almost racist the way this is being treated though, a history peppered with colonization by lighter-skinned invaders from the west, inequalities introduced by the caste system and 200 years of British rule this obsession had to come from somewhere.
It's almost racist the way this is being treated though, a history peppered with colonization by lighter-skinned invaders from the west, inequalities introduced by the caste system and 200 years of British rule this obsession had to come from somewhere.
