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Black and Asian women desparate to be white?

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  • #2
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    Only a committed AH'er could feel that the topic is about feelings of entitlement. Oh and look its a Daily Mail link.... :rolleyes:


  • #3
    bluto63
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    I couldn't finish reading that, I just thought it was ridiculous :rolleyes:


  • #4
    segaBOY
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    DeCoR18 wrote: »
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1225895/YASMIN-ALIBHAI-BROWN-Why-black-Asian-women-desperate-white.html

    The sense of arrogance and entitlement that comes across in that piece is pretty shocking.



    Perhaps in Nigeria or India or China they could dictate the terms of beauty there instead of having a problem with what white people find beautiful:rolleyes:

    They have skin lightening cream in a lot of those Afro-Caribbean shops around the country. Heard of a woman who got really bad burns from using it and her face was destroyed after it :( Apparently the cream hasn't passed any tests to be on the market and there was a crackdown by the IMB about a year back.

    Hits it home really.


  • #5
    Louis Petite Tenure
    Posts: 6,645 ✭✭✭ Louis Petite Tenure


    DeCoR18 wrote: »
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1225895/YASMIN-ALIBHAI-BROWN-Why-black-Asian-women-desperate-white.html

    The sense of arrogance and entitlement that comes across in that piece is pretty shocking.



    Perhaps in Nigeria or India or China they could dictate the terms of beauty there instead of having a problem with what white people find beautiful:rolleyes:

    I find it incredible that what you got from that article was 'a sense of arrogance and entitlement'.


  • #6
    DeCoR18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 403 ✭✭DeCoR18


    brianthebard wrote: »
    Only a committed AH'er could feel that the topic is about feelings of entitlement. Oh and look its a Daily Mail link.... :rolleyes:

    Interesting that my very basic point went over your head.

    I never said the article was about a sense of entitlement, I said the sense of entitlement displayed, which I demonstrated by her wanting billboards of ethnic minority models.


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  • #7
    segaBOY
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    [quote=[Deleted User];62907660]I find it incredible that what you got from that article was 'a sense of arrogance and entitlement'.[/QUOTE]

    Yeah I thought it was more condemning this stupid "phenomenon" if anything? :confused:
    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


  • #8
    Stercus Accidit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭Stercus Accidit


    tl;dr

    especially seeing as it is the daily fail


  • #9
    ZzubZzub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 444 ✭✭ZzubZzub


    Quite an interesting thread on it in TLL
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055729425

    It's quite sad really, that these people don't feel comfortable with their own ethnicity.


  • #10
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    DeCoR18 wrote: »
    Interesting that my very basic point went over your head.

    I never said the article was about a sense of entitlement, I said the sense of entitlement displayed, which I demonstrated by her wanting billboards of ethnic minority models.


    What do you think 'the sense of entitlement displayed' means, other than that the article is at least in part about a sense of entitlement?


  • #11
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    Cleeo wrote: »
    It's quite sad really, that these people don't feel comfortable with their own ethnicity.

    I think it has more to do with feeling marginalised in society tbh.


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  • #12
    DeCoR18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 403 ✭✭DeCoR18


    brianthebard wrote: »
    What do you think 'the sense of entitlement displayed' means, other than that the article is at least in part about a sense of entitlement?

    Ok misunderstanding I'll clarify, I perceive instances where the author displays a sense of entitlement hopefully thats cleared up so we can deal with the actual topic.


  • #13
    Kold
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    And white women are desperate to be orange. Look, there's something to be said for the idealisation of women in the media. It's strange that the ideal black beauty seems to be light skinned women like Beyoncé who essentially looks like a white woman with a bit of 'flava'. But social pressures don't cut it as an excuse for the crazy lengths women go to to look a certain way in my books.
    The money spent, the painful procedures, the social pressure, that's all the woman's f*cking hang up and I'm sick of hearing about it. Nobody is asking you to do this except for your stupid magazines. Looks play a part but in the end, personality is incredibly important and I find women obsessed with fashion and that take ages to apply their make up, for the most part, boring as f*ck. Sure put a little make up on, it does look good, but changing the colour of your skin? What's that sh*t about?
    I reserve the right to find some women attractive without feeling f*cking guilty about some girl who doesn't fall within the perameters.


  • #14
    cmpunk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 289 ✭✭cmpunk


    But there all pink on the inside


  • #15
    McArmalite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭McArmalite


    I don't know why an Asian woman would want to change her appearence, I LOVE Asian chicks. Here's my favourite UFC ring girl Arianny Celeste

    http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=MultiMedia.GalleryImgDetail&gid=140&aid=24471&return=fa%3DMultiMedia.GalleryImgList%26gid%3D140


  • #16
    ZzubZzub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 444 ✭✭ZzubZzub


    brianthebard wrote: »
    I think it has more to do with feeling marginalised in society tbh.

    I agree. Because they are feeling marginalised, they feel that their features, their eyes, nose, skin etc means these people feel that they aren't beautiful because they aren't white. Making them uncomfortable with their ethnicity!

    I just kinda summarised a wee bit. :)


  • #17
    Kold
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    McArmalite wrote: »
    I don't know why an Asian woman would want to change her appearence, I LOVE Asian chicks. Here's my favourite UFC ring girl Arianny Celeste

    http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=MultiMedia.GalleryImgDetail&gid=140&aid=24471&return=fa%3DMultiMedia.GalleryImgList%26gid%3D140
    Looks white.


  • #18
    ZzubZzub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 444 ✭✭ZzubZzub


    Kold wrote: »
    Looks white.

    That's what I thought!


  • #19
    DeCoR18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 403 ✭✭DeCoR18


    McArmalite wrote: »
    I LOVE Asian chicks.

    Don't know why, they seem to have very childlike bodies. As a white man white women are the most beautiful in the world for me. Especially blonde hair blue eyes since they are the rarest features in the world.

    No offense is intended to anybody with that above its just my own view.


  • #20
    sock puppet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭sock puppet


    DeCoR18 wrote: »
    Don't know why, they seem to have very childlike bodies. As a white man white women are the most beautiful in the world for me. Especially blonde hair blue eyes since they are the rarest features in the world.

    No offense is intended to anybody with that above its just my own view.

    Eh? Loads of Irish people have blue eyes. And in Irish people I'd also say black hair is much rarer than blonde.


  • #21
    DeCoR18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 403 ✭✭DeCoR18


    sock puppet wrote: »
    Eh? Loads of Irish people have blue eyes. And in Irish people I'd also say black hair is much rarer than blonde.

    I meant globally :)


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  • #22
    Thirdfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,105 ✭✭✭Thirdfox


    Give me a cute Asian girl any day ;) - but then again I'm an Asian guy :P

    Here is a childhood crush (Lin xin ru - Ruby Lin):
    http://tvmagazine.net/news/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/rubylin3.jpg
    http://www.asian-ent.com/gallery2/d/522-2/Ruby+Lin+%232.jpg

    And, to be fair I haven't read the article - but having pale skin is an exotic thing - goes back to class issue - peasants/workers are in the sun all day so having pale skin means you're a white-collar/aristocrat. Similarly over here having a tan means you can afford to travel to warmer climes.

    A big thing in Asia is to have the "double-eyelid" - two folds of skin above the eyes is seen as being pretty. Personally I don't really care.


  • #23
    D-Generate
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    Ah the good old Ponds White Beauty cream ads from India.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJhSogkI284

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJFITz-edLY


    Who would have thought that a former Miss World would have to use skin whitening creams to whiten her natural dark skin so that she can win back her old boyfriend!


  • #24
    Captain Havoc
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,393 Mod ✭✭✭✭Captain Havoc


    I was with an Indian girl for a while, never bothered me she was a babe.

    https://ormondelanguagetours.com

    Walking Tours of Kilkenny in English, French or German.



  • #25
    sock puppet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭sock puppet


    jerseyeire wrote: »
    I was with an Indian girl for a while, never bothered me she was a babe.

    Well it should bother you ya sick paedo:mad:


  • #26
    Captain Havoc
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    sock puppet wrote: »
    Well it should bother you ya sick paedo:mad:

    What, am I missing something here?

    https://ormondelanguagetours.com

    Walking Tours of Kilkenny in English, French or German.



  • #27
    Jesus Wept
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    They all have lovely bootys.


  • #28
    DeCoR18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 403 ✭✭DeCoR18


    jerseyeire wrote: »
    What, am I missing something here?

    Presumably my comment that Asian women have extremely childlike bodies.

    Although I suppose I should of said east Asian as thats what I was talking about. Obviously Indians aren't east Asians and I have no comment on their body shape as I don't know enough about them to make a generalisation.


  • #29
    sock puppet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭sock puppet


    jerseyeire wrote: »
    What, am I missing something here?
    DeCoR18 wrote: »
    Presumably my comment that Asian women have extremely childlike bodies.

    Although I suppose I should of said east Asian as thats what I was talking about. Obviously Indians aren't east Asians and I have no comment on their body shape as I don't know enough about them to make a generalisation.

    No it wasn't that. I just read it first as "it didn't bother me she was a babe" as in a baby. I thought it was mildly amusing.


  • #30
    brianthebard
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    DeCoR18 wrote: »
    Presumably my comment that Asian women have extremely childlike bodies.

    Although I suppose I should of said east Asian as thats what I was talking about. Obviously Indians aren't east Asians and I have no comment on their body shape as I don't know enough about them to make a generalisation.

    But the billion or so people in the East Asia region is up for grabs when it comes to generalisations?:rolleyes:


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  • #31
    DeCoR18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 403 ✭✭DeCoR18


    brianthebard wrote: »
    But the billion or so people in the East Asia region is up for grabs when it comes to generalisations?:rolleyes:

    Yep.


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