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The mental colonized and the beauty standards. (xhslink.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml

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I find this video very interesting because it explains a certain phenomenon that I have seen repeated in plenty of topics and sectors.

Even though this video talks about the beauty standards, I also see this white supremacist thinking from people in the global south in topics such as:

Resistance: "The white man is always right and the resistance should always be doubted". You can see this when magically Trump turns into a trustworthy source for plenty of anti imperialist even though he lied too many times.
Geopolitical analysis and Western promoted OSINT. There is plenty of analysis that the mentally colonize overlook from Global South sources including the resistance.

The idea behind the video, which is the mental colonization and the white supremacist thinking shared by the global south, should be discussed way more.

Anyway, hope you like the video.

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[–] Kalashnikov@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Tanning is incredibly dangerous. It is literally burning your skin, destroying DNA in the process. It can give you skin cancer and ages your skin faster. It's a bad idea. I don't know how "skin-whitening", which is the first I'm hearing of this, works, but I wouldn't imagine it has no health disadvantages.

I have no idea why anyone would want to change the color of their skin. It is literally a completely meaningless property. It makes no difference whatsoever. The idea that one might want to is uncomfortable to me.

[–] chesmotorcycle@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 day ago

Skin lightening products can be very dangerous, depending on their active ingredients. A common side effect is dermatitis, or inflammation characterized by itchiness, redness, and a rash. Many more severe reactions are possible as well, as shown in the fourth column here.

[–] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

I'll second Che's Motorcycle's comment about the dangers of skin whitening.

As to the property of skin color, it's a generally considered to be an evolutionary adaptation to environments from a time when humans rarely traveled very far from their birth places. Paler skin reduced vitamin D deficiencies in lower light environments, and darker skin reduced melanomas in high sunlight environments.

Of course, in an era of suncreen and vitamin D pills, they are pretty much meaningless, though mid range skin tones have lower melanoma rates while retaining high likelihood of detecting melanomas early.