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As a white man in Asia, women regularly come up to ask how I got my skin and hair color. I'm ghostly pale and have brownish/reddish hair. These features, so have I been told repeatedly, match the platonic ideal of feminine beauty in most of East Asia. I'm never sure how to answer, and it makes me uncomfortable to see the emotional distress caused by these beauty standards. But it's not my place to lecture others on their cultures ideals or their personal beauty regimen. So I just smile and say thank you. Also, the practice of skin bleaching in Asia effectively mirrors of tanning culture in the west. White people getting uncomfortable about the former is just as stupid as claiming the latter is cultural appropriation.
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Sep 26, 2016 04:34
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