Skin Complexion? a 'Must' for marital life?

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Why are Asian people of the sub continent so conscious and fussed about skin tone?
I have read in several journals, newspapers that Indian women of Dark skin complexion is highly unlikely to get married because of skin colour , grooms were apparently wanting to marry lighter skinned girls, or ask more dowry towards dark skinned girls, is this true?
If so, who is to be blamed for creating such stereo typed point. Indian women spend most of their money on skin lightening product, thanks to ‘Fair and lovely’, which never works and promotes skin cancer
In the west it is the other way round, they spend loads and loads of money on tanning products, they even have tanning ‘pills’ to make you brown !!! brown is considered to be beauty in the west and ‘ugly’ in the sub continent countries.

Why do we make such a big deal about skin complexion ?

See this link below, what are your views on this ?
http://current.com/news/92337092_sal...-coca-cola.htm
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/St...ct+bride?.html

where are we heading ?

[Stiglitz]

Only for the extreamly shallow. I find darker women to be more sexy.... Caucasians pay to darken their skin a bit. I find it kind of weird and one of those Creepy Accepted Things in Society. Creepy because it's so wierd morally and psychologically, but it's been accepted, and doesn't even seem weird or strange.

When people use these creams, they're accepting that darker is uglier. They're putting themselves down, and making it worse for themselves and other dark ppl.

[app_engine]

The cancer connection to non-dark skinners:
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/skincancer/facts.htm

[ajithfederer]

A fair and lovely ad.

[rajraj]

Paramashivan: Here is a song for you:

karupputhaan enakku pudichcha 'color'u ava(n)
kaNNu reNdum ennai mayakkum 'thousand' 'watt'u 'power'u

[ajaybaskar]

Complexionnaale adhu skinkuthaane?

[Lambretta]

Actually its more to do with the fact that no one is happy with what they naturally got.
You got curly hair, you make it straight. You got small b***s, you get implants (a la Pam Anderson! :P)
You're even on the borderline between slim and overweight, you strive to get slim.
Same goes for skin colour, whites want tan, tanned want white.....as th character Mirabell says in William Congreve's drama, "'tis the way of the world!"

SimBLe!

[Hulkster]

I think there are two rational explanations for this topic. One is if you look at the by-blood way where humans naturally tend to look at lighter-skinned people as blissful and more heavenly. In other words humans have a tendency to identify people different from themselves in a order of which lighter skinned people tend to be in the higher order, like that from GOD. E.g. Brahmins. This belief also spreads around in terms of facial features.

Secondly could be the rare-species thought, since in the south we are normally dark-skinned people, light-skinned people are seen to be a rare "occurrence" and hence their "value" seen as more precious compared to dark-skinned people due to us being used to seeing people of our color type frequently. Its vice-versa for light-skinned people(caucasians).
Its the same analogy as you always keep red marbles until you come across a golden marble and cherish that one more as it appears rarely and is more captivating.

[Hulkster]

However when it comes to marital life, Skin complexion is a surface factor meaning it forms part of the physical appearance but may not bear any impact on your love life which is what your marriage depends on.

If the light-skinned person happens to have the character that you co-exist with then it would be positive for you otherwise thats the end of it. Actually all this light-skinned complexion and other physical features are related much more to lust than love/marriage cause it forms a immediate attraction within us the moment we see this.

[Stiglitz]

Here's an Uncomfortable Observation:

I've noticed that light skin does make a person look more attractive to the human eye.

I've been attracted to many Caucasian Girls...but when I imagine them with the same features, with the skintone of an african american, it doesn't seem that attractive anymore. Not because of the color, but maybe white skin is just more suitable for many features?

For Ex: Imagine Kareena Kapoor with dark skin. Why did ppl think she was hot? The skin changed and her appearence is completly different. Some ppl look good in all skintones like Katrina Kaif or Deepika Padukone. Even if they were from Nigeria or The North Pole, they'd still be hot. :P But the Lighter Skin is a Big Boost for some also.

So maybe it's not JUST a Psychological Phenomenon. :P

Even in Popular Culture who are the known Black women who are thot to be hot? For Ex: Beyonce, Rihanna. Both who don't look have the typical skintone for their ethnicity.