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10-06-2011, 05:52 AM | #1 |
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I have come across in today's Guardian, interesting article about social problems of black people with the darkest shades. This subject has been mentioned a few tmes on here- shadows of skin among black people and its influence on social life.
The article draws a brief history of the phenomen and its various sides. Shadism |
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10-06-2011, 05:55 AM | #2 |
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10-06-2011, 06:04 AM | #3 |
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Is it like the house negro v field negro phenomenon? I have noticed that 'successful black men' in the USA (and to some extent in the UK) are usually lighter as opposed to darker people of the same ethnicity. |
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10-06-2011, 06:12 AM | #4 |
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Is it like the house negro v field negro phenomenon? I have noticed that 'successful black men' in the USA (and to some extent in the UK) are usually lighter as opposed to darker people of the same ethnicity. I can imagine one aspect- visual or esthetical- for an average non-black obviously lighter blacks or mixes are less 'weird' by the look, compared to very black and nagroid people (probably the same applies to Indians or East Asians). It is nothing wrong, as long as it is this are of taste or familiarity. Different thing is social discrimination, not only between races, but within too. |
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