• @saltesc
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    516 months ago

    Their cultural obsession with white skin has always been weird/cringe to me.

    It’s like they got these people but the other way around…

    • @Cypher
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      296 months ago

      It’s because historically dark skin meant you worked in the fields and were extremely poor.

      Light skin meant you did not perform any manual labour and was a sign of wealth.

      The blonde hair part is the weirdest bit to me.

      • @[email protected]
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        116 months ago

        That was the stereotype in the west too, it only reversed when having a tan meant you were wealthy enough to have been on a summer holiday somewhere sunny!

        • Sam, The Man
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          86 months ago

          We had Japanese students over in 2008 and they said the Ganguro were already quite old :( we might be very out of sync

    • @Starkstruck
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      136 months ago

      People want what they don’t have I guess

    • edric
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      36 months ago

      That’s Asia in general. Grass is greener thing, with the west being the opposite (obsessed with getting a tan).