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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] [IMG]http://www.boylogrorecipes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/CRISPY-CATFISH-WITH-PINEAPPLE.jpg[/IMG] Crispy Catfish with Pineapple _________________________________________________ http://www.answerbus.com/why-korean-people-obsessed-with-being-fair-cWEtMjAwOTA1MjQwMDI4NDFBQUkxaXJY.html Question: Why are korean people obsessed with being fair? Generally speaking, not saying every korean - why are they so obsessed with being white/fair? it's quite apparent in the photos they take on the internet, like they do all these pouts and photoshop the crap out of their photos? Answer: one word - "media" 95% of the portrayed celebrities and models have fair skin korea's ideal women would be double eyelid or huge eye, small nose, small lips, straight hair, slim, and tall... which most cultures do.... people in asia think that white skin hides imperfection. It's not just in Korea, it's in China, Japan, Thailand, Laos, Philippines and Cambodia too. For example, I'm a Cambodian girl and people over there worship white skin. In my culture, dark skin indicates that you're 'farmer'. I think all skin tones are beautiful and everyone should appreciate what they have. The trend you refer to is called baek-saek-mi-in (백색미인 or 白色美人). What is considered "beautiful" and "ugly" in a country is generally based upon the way that most upper class/lower class people look. For example, in Korea, the high-class people spend most of their time indoors. They have very light skin because they don't tan. Therefore, Koreans want to have light skin to look like the high-class people. People with tan skin look like they might be farmers, construction workers, or parking lot ajeosshis. Therefore, dark skin here is associated with low income and status. It used to be like this in the United States. In the United States, people used to try to keep their complexions light, because people with tans were like the farmers and parking lot ajeosshis of Korea today. However, as the United States became a post-industrial society, most people worked indoors, and tans became the fashion because only the upper class had enough leisure to spend enough time outdoors to have tans. On a similar note, being plump in some East Asian cultures (especially China, and old Koreans sometimes still think this way) is still considered a good thing. It's healthy for child birth. Since poor people in China (and old Korea) are almost never plump, being plump was associated with status and health and childbirth capability. So basically, in the end, beauty is determined by how the upper classes look. The standard of beauty is generally determined by how the upper class people look. I predict that in Korea, tans will become fashionable within about 10 years. Korea is becoming a post-industrial society. Some of my evidence of this is in Japan. Japan became a post-industrial society a while ago, and at that point, the white-skinned geisha ideal waned and now many attractive Japanese women have tans because, similar to the change that American fashion went through, as Japan has become a post-industrial society, more and more people are working indoors, and a tan is a sign of class. Korea, when it reaches full post-industrial status like Japan, will also consider tans trendy. Light skin is a sign of wealth. Wealthy Koreans stay inside more often and are fairer skinned. Dark skin is considered the skin of the working class and farm laborers. It is part of their Confucian/feudalistic society. If you are light skinned then you are superior to someone who is dark skinned. They may just as well ask you: Why are Americans obsessed with being tan? In Asia, the geisha is the symbol of beauty. Geisha's made a living off of their beauty and grace. These are just cultural differences. A hundred years ago, it was far more attractive to be pale even in America. In Africa, it is attractive to be overweight. Actually, fairer complexion being attractive makes more sense. Tan skin (as in not natural, from tanning) is far less healthy. They wear cream to make their skin lighter, we wear bronze and spray tans. Fair skin indicates upper class and it gives a cleaner look in Korea. It means beauty Being fair is beauty - Korean's view. ______________________________________________ ^^^ not really, look at how beautiful that Ethiopian man is [/QB][/QUOTE]
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