When I lived in the Philippines, I saw that skin whitening products were popular, as if having a darker skin color was not as acceptable as being a lighter hue.
I found that a sad trend when I imagined a little girl growing up thinking because her skin was darker than white, that she was somehow less attractive and less valued.
To me, the darker skins of some women in the Philippines made them more exotically attractive and natural compared to wearing false skin whiteners.
Yet, despite my take on this, it is sad that we live in a world where some people believe right or wrong that the color of their skin makes them more acceptable or less acceptable.
Sadder still that in some countries that is, or has been, a discriminative norm instead of, to borrow from Martin Luther King, valuing people by “the content of their character.”
Bob Boyd