And there are a lot tanned skin people who looks amazing in the same way that there are a lot of fair skin people who are really ugly!

This is great. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for starting this FB group.

I’d like to invite you all to check out ‘Not Fair, Still Lovely’ at
http://www.facebook.com/Not.fair.still.lovely

It would be great if you could post your opinions/comments/thoughts/poems/articles or anything else on here so that those on this page can be inspired and encouraged to love the skin they’re in….no matter what beautiful shade of brown!

Also feel free to support the page by clicking ‘like’ and to share the link on your wall or with your friends.

I think the government is already doing that 😉

fair skinned north Indians=- I dont thbink so. yes thre are some. But I have travelled extensively in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh etc. Lots of people I met had brown n black skins. North iNDIAN have many colur gradients. People see ultra light skin Indian in Bollywood and think they are all the same

If you look at the North Indians, they have this stereotyping notion against their Southern counterparts(Sri Lankans included!), because at a glance you can see that the North Indians are very fair. This may be due to(as “Lankan Thinker” says)the traditional attitude towards the toiling, sweating, poverty stricken manual worker. And the working class people in India mainly belong(still so, to a large extent)to a lower caste of untouchables. Therefore the fairer high caste North Indians identify the darker-skinned South Indian races with the Kshudras or the untouchables! No wonder that there are so many “fairness creams” becoming sell-outs!

In Sri Lanka too, “Sudu Putha” and “Mage Sudu” are definitely preferred words over “Kalu Putha” and “Mage Kalu”!Sometimes the Sinhalese seem to consider themselves as “fairer” than the “Kalu” Tamils, and this could be one factor for the type-casting of Tamils as “inferior” by the Sinhalese! Unfortunately though, I am unable to differentiate the Sinhalese from Tamils based on their complextion! Did it all start after the arrival of the Western colonists? I doubt this contention, as there seems to be a natural bias towards the “white” over “black” in the human mind!(one may say that this is “conditioned”, but on the other hand , for something to be “conditioned”, there should be a reason for it be regarded “superior” in the first place!) If not why the hell do we identify ‘good’ with ‘white’ and ‘evil’ with ‘black’? It would be interesting to speculate how it would have been like, if a black race from Africa colonised us instead of the white Europians in the 16th century! Would we have equally aped them, the way we do now?

The fair skinned Chinese too are judgemental towards the African races based on their skin colour and this sometimes even surpasses the “white supremacist” mind-set of the Caucasians according to my experience!

Even among the African races the relatively fair skinned peoples seem to consider themselves with a sense of superiority. In Rwanda the Tutsis and Hutus(are said to have)had a slight shade of colour difference and this went on to become a major criterian in the genocide which took place.

My conclusion is that the human mind has a natural prejudice towards something “white” or fair over something “black” or dark! There may be exceptions like, “I like a black car” or “I like a black woman”, but on the other hand, how many of you would like to paint your house in black?