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Me and my siblings are all lighter-skinned by Punjabi standards, and growing up we've always heard things like 'you guys don't really look brown'. My younger brother gets it the most since he has coloured eyes. I chalked this up to standard colourism but my cousin who's more of an average skin tone for a Punjabi got the same comment for losing a bunch of weight and putting on muscle, and going through a growth spurt.
By all means, I'm not complaining or trying to brag here, but does anyone else think it's odd we immediately associate anything deemed 'attractive' with 'not looking Brown/Desi'?
It's OFFENSIVE. Just compliment someone and leave the race part out of it. The white fetishization is pathetic.
My cousin was born with coarse curly/kinky hair and decided to go natural. She was told to straighten her hair by Indians because curly doesn't look good. She asked that aunty why. That bitch aunty told her that when she let's her hair go natural she looks black.
Wtf is wrong with that? I know many beautiful black women.
A black woman with a nice body, smooth, clear healthy dark skin and curly hair is not beautiful according to desi standards.
Then take a fair-skinned woman with pimples, dull skin and straight hair and her skin is considered beautiful over the black woman's skin. Just on the basis of color NOT overall looks
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