<p>Asians in Asia are focused on pale skin because historically, poor Asians are tan, and wealthy Asians are pale. Almost all Asian societies started as agrarian societies (some still continue to do so), with numerous farmer-families paying taxes to the few nobles. Thus, by way of sun tan, social class can be discerned. The field workers are tan, and the nobles are pale from gloating in their luxuries. </p>
<p>Modern day Asians continue to attach the poor, uneducated, unsophisticated stereotype to other dark skinned Asians. A tanned Asian to another Asian would be seen as someone who could be a bum, a farmer, or someone uneducated. Modern day movies depict the bum is frequently depicted with a tan, with the wealthy families depicted with very pale skin color.</p>
<p>I never understood why whites like to sit in the sun all day or go to tanning salons to make themselves burnt orange. Its freaky looking in my opinion.</p>
<p>i used to have a huge problem with redness (also a glowing white boy). i would use sunscreen to protect my face everyday, but i figured out that the sunscreen was worsening the redness. now i use this stuff:</p>
<p>my skin reacts poorly to synthetic or acidic/caustic products and this stuff is all organic. i had acne for 3 years and it took about 2 weeks of using this stuff for my skin to clear up and it's been clear ever since. best of luck to you!</p>
<p>It's not just Asian that had issues with skin tone. It's very much prevalent across cultures, portrayed especially so in modeling careers.</p>
<p>If anyone watches "America's Next Top Model" or the "Tyra Banks Show", many beautiful women come up who are so self-conscious and self-deprecating because of their darker skin tone. Why? Because most cultures have again and again portrayed that lighter skin tone is beautiful. Whether this has anything to do with prior white supremacy, I don't know. I don't really want to touch that topic. But it is true. In India, the gorgeous super models and idols of beauty have very light complexions (in addition to usually blue, hazel or green eyes). In Asia, almost all beauty products are advertised to whiten your skin, so perhaps I can guess that if you don't have white skin, you may not be trying hard enough, you may be too poor to afford those beauty products, or something along those lines? Even in African(-American) cultures, many girls have issues if their skin is too dark. Yes, the argument that "Black is beautiful" is there, but the reality is, idols like Naomi Campbell or Tyra Banks (large icons of successful African-American beauties) all have lighter skin.</p>
<p>Personally, I wish I had lighter skin, but I'm not going to go to extreme measures to achieve it. If it's who I am, I'm going to just work with it.</p>
<p>Pale = housebound loser; geek who plays WoW all day
Tan = party-hopping beach bum who lives a glamorous lifestyle</p>
<p>Rest of the world:</p>
<p>Pale = leisurely lifestyle spent indoors mostly; modern and fashionable
Tan = unsophisticated farmer or labourer; backwards and not with the times</p>
<p>why would a farmer or laborer be unsophisticated? do you look down on them because they aren't doctors and lawyers. Give me a break, farmers and laborers are a lot more important than doctors and farmers and to call them unsophisticated with there years of experience that has been passed down is ridiculous. I don't like doctors and lawyers I actually think they are sick ****ing apes. if you look down on people because there job looks less important, your only fooling yourself. The people who make our lives possible are the real commendable ones. The truth is I live in a Irish Immigrant neighborhood in the Bronx and most of those laborers make more than general practitioners. and they deserve it they have harder lives.</p>
<p>What you are claiming is that a Doctor(or some other sophisticated profession) is more important than a fireman/ems or a police officer or even a garbage man. Thats just insane to think that. Doctors are by far the most useless being on our planet.</p>
<p>half the people on this board never go outside anyway so its "pale all the way!"
i myself hit the tanning bed once a week during the winters to keep up the tan i get during spring/summer/early fall from the beach/sports/work</p>
<p>i know, i should lock myself in my room all day to protect myself from cancer</p>
<p>at any rate, welcome to America, where a tan is attractive to the opposite sex (or same, if need be)</p>
<p>Hrrrm... -----, you cannot think in terms of anything you experienced as an Irish immigrant. It's completely different in Asia. In the perspective of modern equalitarian ideals, Asian farmers have been exploited in every way possible for thousands of years. The wealthy and politically influential (because not all politicians are wealthy) sections of society have always created many social stigma's in order to confine their power within themselves (IE White-Black racial stigma in America is similar to this). Skin darkness has always been used by the upper class to separate social class. </p>
<p>I don't think this has anything to do with importance. It's just the way society evolved.</p>
Doctors are by far the most useless being on our planet.
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<p>If you think saving people's lives is useless, sure. And if you never get cancer that could be oh so easily cured with a little radiation. Or strept-throat that could kill you if you didn't take a few antibiotic pills.</p>
<p>If you get sick you are supposed to die, doctors dont really save lives, at least i think of them as disposable. Ive never ever even been to a doctor and Im fine, Neither has anybody in my family and we have a average lifespan of 90+, we are doing swell.</p>
<p>I've been gravely sick once. I should be dead by now, but thanks to a Doctor, I could live another good 50-60 years. Doctors are important to many people, and some people are lucky enough to not need them.</p>
<p>Of course they don't have common sense. Their sense, is a specialized sense that takes years of medical education to acquire. Doctors maybe wrong at times, but we'll err even more when faced with the decisions Doctors make. You're seemingly marked by a limited, and maybe isolated incident that has created this odd stereotype that doctors are lesser than the commoner. How can the average person treat, diagnose, or analyze an ailment without knowing physiology, anatomy, urology, neurology, etc.?</p>
<p>If you believe that Doctor's have no common sense because they try to delay death, then it is you who are without common sense. </p>
<p>The bottom line: Nobody cares about who should or shouldn't be dead! They only care about what can actually be done about delaying death. </p>
<p>Even though I should be dead, I received medical attention. Why should anyone choose death if they could live longer? If you have the opportunity to gain something, why not gain it?</p>
<p>So I guess when you get hit by a drunk driver, you really deserved to die, instead of getting doctors to help save your life.</p>
<p>So I guess when you're an innocent victim of a gunman, you really deserved to die, instead of getting doctors to help save your life.</p>
<p>Really now. Why don't you stop your self-righteous act, and take a look at what they really do? Sure, media and Asian parents have overplayed their importance and meaning sometimes, but they deserve respect at least as much as, if not more than, any other hardworking citizen does.</p>
<p>Or perhaps you're so important and right that you can't see beyond your own eyes.</p>
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why would a farmer or laborer be unsophisticated? do you look down on them because they aren't doctors and lawyers. Give me a break, farmers and laborers are a lot more important than doctors and farmers and to call them unsophisticated with there years of experience that has been passed down is ridiculous.
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<p>Um, where are all the soap operas about farmers?</p>
<p>i think a lot of people wish they were tan, but i have no problem with pale people as long as they dont look unhealthy. i have olive-ish skin and get tan after 10 minutes in the sun and i acutally love that i dont burn. but in the winter, i skip the tanning (unlike a huge amount of people around me) and just let my paler skin stay natural. </p>
<p>my moms side of the family is plauged with skin cancer, my mom got it at 45, uncle had it, and grandpa had tons of it. thank god i inherited most of my dads skins or i would be in bad shape. anyway id rather be pale in the winter then get skin cancer.</p>
<p>one of my best friends is the palest person youll ever meet without being albino but it fits her. she doesnt tan at all and would look rediculous if she tried to tan. whatever is right for the individual</p>
<p>When I tan I look hispanic, or at least half(on the first day of Span 3 my teacher asked me which one of my parents was latino). Usually I get mistaken for Italian or Greek though. My family is entirely of german/irish decent so no idea where its from. And my bro is one of the whitest kids I know, so no one thinks we're related. It's fun to never burn at the beach though, and laugh at all the red people.</p>
<p>i get mistaken for italian all the time, becasue a lot of people in my area and they figure i am too. but im actually brazilian/hispanic/portuguese and my dads really tan so i get that crazy tan in the summer. but my moms really pale so i lose most of my color in the winter.</p>
