Why people give preference to skin colour?

anjeev Gupta wrote:
suni51 wrote:
Bruce Lee wrote:
In case only white was the preferred color I would not support Venus and Serena as my favorite players.

Then you must be in the area where white people is living so you even cannot touch the black people.

I cannot imagine any Indian living any where in India can even think so. This is not good on our parts to think that way. Color is gift of God.

But people don't understand it they should understand that its a God gift and being fair color or dark color is not a parameter to measure beauty. :blink:

Now tht is not my fault, I can only state as per my own feelings.

Yes we all live with our own feelings. But must adjust to nature.

anjeev Gupta wrote:
suni51 wrote:
Bruce Lee wrote:
In case only white was the preferred color I would not support Venus and Serena as my favorite players.

Then you must be in the area where white people is living so you even cannot touch the black people.

I cannot imagine any Indian living any where in India can even think so. This is not good on our parts to think that way. Color is gift of God.

But people don't understand it they should understand that its a God gift and being fair color or dark color is not a parameter to measure beauty. :blink:

Now tht is not my fault, I can only state as per my own feelings.

Yes we all live with our own feelings. But must adjust to nature.

I appreciate your concern for human values and discrimination based on color. I am also against all discrimination. It is also true that skin color and facial beauty is natural and there is no personal merit or demerit in this. What matters is qualities of head and heart.

However, beauty is not something related to thoughts. What appears beautiful to you is beautiful. Facial beauty, voice and many other attributes are gifts of nature. But one definitely gets benefits of gifts and is at disadvantage for adverse qualities even though natural and no personal fault. For example Lata Mangeshkar has a very good voice, which is nature gift. So, she is a good singer. This goes to her credit that she selected good field appropriate to her natural talent. If she had selected acting, she would be a big failure.

We must evaluate ourselves and find beauty- in looks, color, voice, other attributes. It is possible to enhance the good qualities and make use of those. We must also recognize our natural ugliness and demerits and not fight against nature. To elucidate, if you feel that you will do well in music but your voice is not good, go for instrumental music. If your figure is not good and body not attractive, do not go for dancing but may do well as dance composer.

anjeev Gupta wrote:
suni51 wrote:
Bruce Lee wrote:
In case only white was the preferred color I would not support Venus and Serena as my favorite players.

Then you must be in the area where white people is living so you even cannot touch the black people.

I cannot imagine any Indian living any where in India can even think so. This is not good on our parts to think that way. Color is gift of God.

But people don't understand it they should understand that its a God gift and being fair color or dark color is not a parameter to measure beauty. :blink:

Now tht is not my fault, I can only state as per my own feelings.

Yes we all live with our own feelings. But must adjust to nature.

I appreciate your concern for human values and discrimination based on color. I am also against all discrimination. It is also true that skin color and facial beauty is natural and there is no personal merit or demerit in this. What matters is qualities of head and heart.

However, beauty is not something related to thoughts. What appears beautiful to you is beautiful. Facial beauty, voice and many other attributes are gifts of nature. But one definitely gets benefits of gifts and is at disadvantage for adverse qualities even though natural and no personal fault. For example Lata Mangeshkar has a very good voice, which is nature gift. So, she is a good singer. This goes to her credit that she selected good field appropriate to her natural talent. If she had selected acting, she would be a big failure.

We must evaluate ourselves and find beauty- in looks, color, voice, other attributes. It is possible to enhance the good qualities and make use of those. We must also recognize our natural ugliness and demerits and not fight against nature. To elucidate, if you feel that you will do well in music but your voice is not good, go for instrumental music. If your figure is not good and body not attractive, do not go for dancing but may do well as dance composer.

But sir, do you think some of the most beautiful girls are African based and people are mad about their beauty. I can name a thousand right now. They are not only earning very good money but are leaders in their fields. I am talking about beauty and fashion world. For instance Shakira, Halle Barry there is a whole list and not to forget the top athletes of the world whom you would see after five days in LONDON.
I am myself a Punjabi and belong to a comparatively fair colored area according to Indian standards but I appreciate natural beauty and talent rather than skin color. For me beauty is not skin deep, thanks. Just have a look
http://www.womentribe.com/entertainment/top-10-black-beauties.html

anjeev Gupta wrote:
suni51 wrote:
Bruce Lee wrote:
In case only white was the preferred color I would not support Venus and Serena as my favorite players.

Then you must be in the area where white people is living so you even cannot touch the black people.

I cannot imagine any Indian living any where in India can even think so. This is not good on our parts to think that way. Color is gift of God.

But people don't understand it they should understand that its a God gift and being fair color or dark color is not a parameter to measure beauty. :blink:

Now tht is not my fault, I can only state as per my own feelings.

Yes we all live with our own feelings. But must adjust to nature.

I appreciate your concern for human values and discrimination based on color. I am also against all discrimination. It is also true that skin color and facial beauty is natural and there is no personal merit or demerit in this. What matters is qualities of head and heart.

However, beauty is not something related to thoughts. What appears beautiful to you is beautiful. Facial beauty, voice and many other attributes are gifts of nature. But one definitely gets benefits of gifts and is at disadvantage for adverse qualities even though natural and no personal fault. For example Lata Mangeshkar has a very good voice, which is nature gift. So, she is a good singer. This goes to her credit that she selected good field appropriate to her natural talent. If she had selected acting, she would be a big failure.

We must evaluate ourselves and find beauty- in looks, color, voice, other attributes. It is possible to enhance the good qualities and make use of those. We must also recognize our natural ugliness and demerits and not fight against nature. To elucidate, if you feel that you will do well in music but your voice is not good, go for instrumental music. If your figure is not good and body not attractive, do not go for dancing but may do well as dance composer.

But sir, do you think some of the most beautiful girls are African based and people are mad about their beauty. I can name a thousand right now. They are not only earning very good money but are leaders in their fields. I am talking about beauty and fashion world. For instance Shakira, Halle Barry there is a whole list and not to forget the top athletes of the world whom you would see after five days in LONDON.
I am myself a Punjabi and belong to a comparatively fair colored area according to Indian standards but I appreciate natural beauty and talent rather than skin color. For me beauty is not skin deep, thanks. Just have a look
http://www.womentribe.com/entertainment/top-10-black-beauties.html

Beauty does not consist of color only. There are other physical features like body curves, way of movement etc. But white color is generally considered as more beautiful. There is also difference between beauty on screen and that in real world. The celebrities on screen are aided by many beauty and fashion experts who ensure that the actress/ model looks pretty on screen.

Incidentally, I also liked many black girls. If a girl appears beautiful, she is beautiful. Her facial and other body curves, voice, manners all go to make or unmake a beauty. I may repeat that white color is generally more beautiful but this is not the only aspect of beauty. Overall beauty includes many things.

anjeev Gupta wrote:
suni51 wrote:
Bruce Lee wrote:
In case only white was the preferred color I would not support Venus and Serena as my favorite players.

Then you must be in the area where white people is living so you even cannot touch the black people.

I cannot imagine any Indian living any where in India can even think so. This is not good on our parts to think that way. Color is gift of God.

But people don't understand it they should understand that its a God gift and being fair color or dark color is not a parameter to measure beauty. :blink:

Now tht is not my fault, I can only state as per my own feelings.

Yes we all live with our own feelings. But must adjust to nature.

I appreciate your concern for human values and discrimination based on color. I am also against all discrimination. It is also true that skin color and facial beauty is natural and there is no personal merit or demerit in this. What matters is qualities of head and heart.

However, beauty is not something related to thoughts. What appears beautiful to you is beautiful. Facial beauty, voice and many other attributes are gifts of nature. But one definitely gets benefits of gifts and is at disadvantage for adverse qualities even though natural and no personal fault. For example Lata Mangeshkar has a very good voice, which is nature gift. So, she is a good singer. This goes to her credit that she selected good field appropriate to her natural talent. If she had selected acting, she would be a big failure.

We must evaluate ourselves and find beauty- in looks, color, voice, other attributes. It is possible to enhance the good qualities and make use of those. We must also recognize our natural ugliness and demerits and not fight against nature. To elucidate, if you feel that you will do well in music but your voice is not good, go for instrumental music. If your figure is not good and body not attractive, do not go for dancing but may do well as dance composer.

But sir, do you think some of the most beautiful girls are African based and people are mad about their beauty. I can name a thousand right now. They are not only earning very good money but are leaders in their fields. I am talking about beauty and fashion world. For instance Shakira, Halle Barry there is a whole list and not to forget the top athletes of the world whom you would see after five days in LONDON.
I am myself a Punjabi and belong to a comparatively fair colored area according to Indian standards but I appreciate natural beauty and talent rather than skin color. For me beauty is not skin deep, thanks. Just have a look
http://www.womentribe.com/entertainment/top-10-black-beauties.html

Beauty does not consist of color only. There are other physical features like body curves, way of movement etc. But white color is generally considered as more beautiful. There is also difference between beauty on screen and that in real world. The celebrities on screen are aided by many beauty and fashion experts who ensure that the actress/ model looks pretty on screen.

Incidentally, I also liked many black girls. If a girl appears beautiful, she is beautiful. Her facial and other body curves, voice, manners all go to make or unmake a beauty. I may repeat that white color is generally more beautiful

but this is not the only aspect of beauty. Overall beauty includes many

things.

True, BTW I happened to be in different parts of the country(and here I am limiting my travels to our own country for the time being) and happened to come across top actress of our film industries from Bollywood, Tollywood, Collywood or whatever wood we have, I was surprised to see the top heroins of our films who look so gleaming and fair colored were not as they are shown. They were too below an average Indian. But that's right they are made-over so heavily to look the way they look. I have nothing against that. As far jobs etc are concerned, overall personality has nothing to do with skin color but total talent. This I can say as an ex marketing head- who never selected any one based on his color of skin.

Natural beauty depends not only skin.Natural beauty is beauty but artificial is not permanent.

Color give smart look to the person and good feature without color also gives a smart look

I don't think there is any thing without color in this world. The topic is dark or fair, both are equally good depending on overall look.

The skin color of Hemamalini is not white but is she not looked nice?
Skin color is not everything,structure and personality also needed.

Color give smart look to the person and good feature without color also gives a smart look


Some persons also look attraction in their face even they look black.

Color give smart look to the person and good feature without color also gives a smart look


Some persons also look attraction in their face even they look black.

You mean African beauty, :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

As of now also people keep in mind the colour of a girl before marrying her. :evil: Recently one of the guy in my neighbor did not agree to have an arranged marriage with a girl and declined just for her colour :evil: though the girl is well educated and doing a good job.What do you say about this? :blink:

So, here the skin color choice applies only to the female gender, not the men ! Men can be dark but they still prefer a fair skinned girl and of course a fair skinned man will probably be offended if anyone suggested a dark girl for him...We fought for nearly 50 years to throw the white skinned Britishers out of our country and now our entire lives revolve around the color" white "... :dry: :huh:

because they get attracted to that only

As of now also people keep in mind the colour of a girl before marrying her. :evil: Recently one of the guy in my neighbor did not agree to have an arranged marriage with a girl and declined just for her colour :evil: though the girl is well educated and doing a good job.What do you say about this? :blink:

So, here the skin color choice applies only to the female gender, not the men ! Men can be dark but they still prefer a fair skinned girl and of course a fair skinned man will probably be offended if anyone suggested a dark girl for him...We fought for nearly 50 years to throw the white skinned Britishers out of our country and now our entire lives revolve around the color" white "... :dry: :huh:

Well said Usha! We are still slave of their color!! :angry:

As of now also people keep in mind the colour of a girl before marrying her. :evil: Recently one of the guy in my neighbor did not agree to have an arranged marriage with a girl and declined just for her colour :evil: though the girl is well educated and doing a good job.What do you say about this? :blink:

So, here the skin color choice applies only to the female gender, not the men ! Men can be dark but they still prefer a fair skinned girl and of course a fair skinned man will probably be offended if anyone suggested a dark girl for him...We fought for nearly 50 years to throw the white skinned Britishers out of our country and now our entire lives revolve around the color" white "... :dry: :huh:

Well said Usha! We are still slave of their color!! :angry:

The preference for white or fair skin did not begin with British rule. This was always there. However, there was no racial discrimination in such preference.

As regards color of men and girls, here is gender bias arising out of double standard. A woman has always been considered an item of consumption and a decoration item. Hence she should be beautiful. a man is master of household and he is the bread winner. so, his capacity to earn more and education count more than physical beauty. For centuries. women have been groomed as such. That is why women education was also neglected.

In case of arrange marriage, complexion, talent and education becomes very important. Many people prefer fair complexion woman. It is their mental setup and choice. Moreover, many people has notion that if after marriage, child has dark complexion then it creates problem during their marriage. Therefore man generally look for fair complexion woman.

Gulshanji has written very strong reason behind this. I duely agree with this. I have heard this from my parents also.

Gulshanji has written very strong reason behind this. I duely agree with this. I have heard this from my parents also.

Let me add something from Lord Krishna childhood. Krishna was black whereas his brother Bbalram was white. So many teased Krishna saying that he was no yashod's son but had been picked from street. In the movie, Satyam shivam sunderam, the song wording are 'Yashumati se poochhe nand lala- Radha kyon Gori Men Kyo Kala' (Nand's son asks Yashoda- Why i am lack and Radha white).

I think present society is not so keen about skin colour as...as they now are more interested in money..

As of now also people keep in mind the colour of a girl before marrying her. :evil: Recently one of the guy in my neighbor did not agree to have an arranged marriage with a girl and declined just for her colour :evil: though the girl is well educated and doing a good job.What do you say about this? :blink:

So, here the skin color choice applies only to the female gender, not the men ! Men can be dark but they still prefer a fair skinned girl and of course a fair skinned man will probably be offended if anyone suggested a dark girl for him...We fought for nearly 50 years to throw the white skinned Britishers out of our country and now our entire lives revolve around the color" white "... :dry: :huh:

We are still slaves of whites by thinking. You see a tourist from a European country with white skin attracts a lot of attention. I can see people still feeling as if they were our bosses. I am surprised to see that even educated persons thinking this way where as more than 90% people in our country are average colored.