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It is an established fact that companies manufacturing / marketing fairness creams in India are registering a steady growth in their business turnover. The sales of some well known brands like Fair and Lovely...
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Delia Rose is mad as hell. In her usually lighthearted and witty blog, Impeach the Muffins, the L.A. teenager is calling for a boycott of Unilever. The reason? The skin-whiteners that the corporate behemoth distributes and promotes in Malaysia and other Eastern countries…
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A recent study says that skin tone affects earnings in the U.S. The darker the skin is, the higher the chance to get paid less than the counterparts with lighter skin do. The study looks at legal immigrants to the U.S. from around the world.Several other findings from the study:
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1 black and white dark and fair -what a world this is when amongst your own kind your own people discriminate; and they look at you,especially if you are a woman,and take note if you are dark or fair
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India as a nation is one of those entities that never rests and is never content with its achievements. It always strives for more, something beyond..
Sixty years may have passed since the end of the Raj, but "whites" continue to colonise India’s hearts and minds. Few things reflect this better than the unremitting mania for fair skin.
www.outlookindia.com | Simply Not Done. Of Elected Cliques, Fairness Creams And Other Things We Do T
'Cry, My Beloved Country' is an expression which comes to mind when we think of some facets of the Indian condition, such as that section of our population which lives on Rs 20 a day; farmers who have committed suicide; the hundreds of families who have lost their kin to the violence all around us; ...
Kurinji Thakkar http://www.indianeye.org/2008/01/12/unfair-and-lowly-fairness-creams-and-racist-tones/
http://www.indianeye.org/2008/02/05/unilevers-response-to-the-fair-and-lovely-blog-post/
Unfair and Lowly – Fairness creams and racist tones | Indian Eye: Perspectives on Marketing, New Med
If you've been following the game of cricket, you've probably heard of the Harbhajan-Symonds controversy. Apparently, Harbhajan Singh called Andrew Symonds a
Complications of fairness creamsaround the world tremendous amount of fairness creams are produced under different trade names. With the current trend many people tend to use these products irrespective of their sex. But the fairness effect does not come alone. fairness creams do have other complica...
Raghuram Kalletla Just came back from a trip to Kenya. I couldn't believe what I saw advertised on one of the hoardings in Nairobi - an ad for a skin cream to make one's skin "silky smooth" and it featured a black model. These companies will go to any length to make useless crap and market it.
Ashish Grover Indians saale gora hona chahte hain and the Whites wanna get tanned...WTF is wrong wid this world... and i'd also like to say that there was a time and there are still places where a Black girl in this country could not find a groom without getting rejected abt 5 to 10 times.. i totally feel their pain but fuk it coz t...
Ashish Grover Why can't Indian fucking get over it...u are meant to be black or brown or any shade if u are born that why....every time i see an add i think to myself....how big is this fair and lovely market....it's pretty damn big since every cream manufacturer has come down to making their own versions of fairness...i just feel I...
Nikhil D. Thiyyar http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/international/in-black-and-white
another example of the rampant colonial hangover in india
Residents of Delhi beat up some Nigerian nationals recently, accusing them of ‘eating babies’. The harassment of Africans by Indians is all too common. When will the law catch up w
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In a rebuff to the society often seen to reflect a bias for "fair skin", the SC has sentenced a man to jail for driving his wife to suicide by his taunts over her "dark skin".
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I become so disturbed when marriage ads in Indian papers specify skin color (not that I often look through marriage ads :). Several dating sites do it to. If I catch one of my parents make a comment about fair skin being desirable in a mate I chastise them vociferously. There are very few things ...
Vaseline's new Facebook app marks a shift away from the shame of "fairness" creams
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The presence of Caucasian models in Indian advertisements has grown in the past three years, industry analysts say. The trend reflects deep cultural
<img border="0" hspace="5" alt="" vspace="2" align="right" src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/pspauld/BlogPix/Headshots/skin-facebook.jpg"><A HREF="http://www.newsoxy.com/technology/skin-whitening-facebook-13778.html" TARGET="_blank">I'm so sick of this sh*t</A>....
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Shahid Gorabankar, a 23-year-old unemployed MBA, proved to be a total disaster in his fourth job interview this year when he, filled inexplicably with over confidence and uber coolness, acted like a complete jerk in front of his prospective employers. Shahid, whose first interview this year was for ...
Most of the Indians, especially those living in rural India, were shocked to see urban men and women applying fairness creams and trying different brands of innerwears for over five hours in an annual ritual practiced here for ages now, an exercise that is supposed to fill them with confidence. What...
Christopher Paparis Love your mocha lips and dark chocolate bodies!
We The People: Is India a country of closet racist? Even today, are we obsessed with fair skin? A debate.
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As both an A-list Bollywood actor and the host of India's answer to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Shah Rukh Khan sets hearts aflutter for all manner of reasons. Now, however, he has been accused of peddling a dream too far - in an advertisement for skin cream.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1518684/pdf/pmed.0030316.pdf .
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Sandeep Anirudhan hey folks, good to see all of you doing a great job at opposing these racist products.......... there's a new petition all of you could sign on change.org against the maker of the mother of all fairness creams: 'fair and lovely' .... http://www.change.org/petitions/view/unilever_please_stop_marketing_racist_products ...
Unilever markets some gruesome brands such as "Fair & Lovely" and "Vaseline Me...
Kurinji Thakkar http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/beauty/Addicted-to-fairness-creams-Not-fair/articleshow/5973021.cms
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With fairness market booming, with men too now wanting to become 'fair and lovely', wonder if anyone stopped to think of its side-effects!
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