It just seems like a double standard.
I personally am kind of the same way.. I don’t understand why anyone would want to bleach their skin, but I know people that tan, and it doesn’t seem like such a big deal.
Why do the skin bleaching creams tend to inflame our indignation more than tanning and spray-tans? They’re both changing your appearance artificially?
Why do so many Americans take offence to the skin bleaching creams sold in China and India and ignore tan?
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December 13, 2009 at 5:21 pm
This is the first time I have heard about this issue and I could not possibly care less.
Jenny
December 13, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Yeah it makes no sense to me – if skin bleaching is wrong, racist and an insult to your heritage (I mean look how much Michael Jackson was criticized for it), then so is spray tan.
Vanessa
December 13, 2009 at 6:43 pm
I don’t “take offense” to either, but I do think that people should accept who and what they are and stop trying to change their skin tone. I’m going to venture a guess, though, and say that people probably get more indignant about bleaching because tanning is a natural process that happens to people’s skin in the sun, whereas bleaching is forcing your skin to change color with harsh chemicals. I don’t know what to say about spray tans — I personally don’t tan at all. And if I had dark skin, I certainly wouldn’t bleach it.
allperils2050
December 13, 2009 at 7:26 pm
You live in your own World.
Please do not speak on behalf of all 300 million Americans with your nonsense.
Also, you have no right to speak on behalf of us 1.3B Chinese as well.