Why Do Some Black People Want To Be White ?

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26691884

This singer called Dencia comes from the Cameroons. If someone told her that she had to take steps to look like a white girl, she would rightly be outraged. Isn't what she is doing, and profiting from it would seem, just exploitation ? And why does she have to wear sunglasses indoors ?

[jeffa]

She looks far sexier with normal skin colour. With white skin she looks grotesque.

[pixie373]

She's made her own choice, but it shouldn't be necessary.

[wolf63]

Her natural skin colour suits her- she looks like something out of a horror film with white skin. The colour is too white and makes her look thinner.

[pixie373]

I wouldn't say "grotesque", but she looks much better with her natural skin colour, imo.

[Psybbo]

Equally why do a lot of white people go to great lengths to get a tan (go brown)

[mikey4444]

Good point Psybbo ! I don't sunbathe myself, as I am afraid of skin cancers. Anyway, if I were to take my clothes off on the beach, people would gather around and start pushing me back into the sea, having mistaken me for a large white whale.

I think this silly and extremely irritating woman is setting a bad example to other black girls. And she appears to making a lot of money out of it as well. And I wish she would take her sunglasses off !

[Old_Geezer]

Whilst it seems a strange thing to waste money on, if it's what she wants ...

I think she looks good in both photos though. But I'm unsure about the pink lipstick.

[EDDIE51]

I lived in Zambia for 3 years and skin whitening cream was very popular with the local females, adverts for it all over the place.

[sandyRoe]

Michael Jackson must have used it too.

[sp1814]

My partner and I went to Thailand on holiday last year, and skin whitening creams are very popular there too.

It's a popular attitude - the lighter the skin, the 'better' you are. It's not necessarily to look white per se (because let's be frank, a black person or an Asian with very light skin still doesn't look like a Caucasian).

As to the 'why' - don't know. Perhaps it's a societal thing...there may still be the attitude that darker skinned people are less worthy.

An attitude which really needs to be left in the past.

[douglas9401]

As to your last question Mikey:

There are two kinds of people who wear sunglasses indoors: Blind people and assholes." -Larry David

[Cloverjo]

I don't like the skin-bleached look. Watching the T20 cricket today, there was a woman (possibly an Indian or Pakistani player's wife) who looked very bleached. She didn't look good like that.

[joko]

i have heard that about lighter skin being considered 'better' too - not really sure why, just a general society thing i suppose

kind of silly and weird but its so ingrained, it will be a long time before it disappears, sadly

i guess i can understand people with very very dark skin, the sort that genuinely is almost black in colour, wanting SLIGHTLY lighter skin - for contour, definition, tone, to make features more visible etc, but i'd think only a few shades, not whiter than most white people!

she does look weird in that pic - she has gone a bit far.


theres probably also something of the natural desire to want the opposite of what you naturally are - straight haired want curly, short want to be taller etc etc - grass is greener type of mentality

[youngmafbog]

Lighter skin better? Rubbish a good tan looks much better (although not Essex orange ones!)

[Old_Geezer]

I can see the possible desire to make features more visible. It is one of life's sad aspects it is less easy to make out the features of a beautiful black woman when seeing them across the street than the features of a white woman. But I still think someone who is "very very dark" should be expected to be proud of their appearance rather than wish for something different. I guess we all feel we could look slightly better if only something was different.

Having looked at the film clip now I see she doesn't actually look anything like either picture any more. I think the second at least, was 'touched up' to make her seem exaggeratedly light.

[whiskeryron]

I'm a whit guy & I say to you Dencia '' Black is beautiful don't spoil yourself girl''

[andy-hughes]

Dencia's explanation certainly didn't stand up - apart from the part where she said she was an adult and can do as she wishes.

As to wearing sunglasses indoors - I interviewed two musicians last week, both of whom were wearing sunglasses - a man and a woman. The woman advised it was because she hadn't finished her make-up yet, and the man said it was because he had bags under his eyes from constant lack of sleep caused by touring - both of which are fair enough explanations in my view.

He also added that it is a layer of 'insulation' between the musician and the large number of complete strangers he meets every day.

I found that one less believeable - of you don't want to meet strangers and look them in the eye - don'tbe a high-profile musician and tour the world!

[TWR]

Another idiot with too much £££££££££££££££ that does not know what to do in their sad life.

[RATTER15]

TWR, You clearly dislike the woman!

[TWR]

Its not the case of dislike Ratters, there are people out there with more serious problem than this, she wants to live in a real world, the world I live in.