INDIA ARIE ON EUROCENTRIC AESTHETICS AS MORE PALATABLE

Feeling Rebloggy
Songversation
2015

“It’s all based on Eurocentric beauty ideals: For example;  Straight, blonde hair, blue eyes, aquiline nose, thin limbs, lighter skin…. for many this is just considered ‘beauty.’ Why? 

Because eurocentric aesthetics are seen as the standard, and therefore are more palatable and desirable by the world as a whole.  The entertainment industries are no exception, they SELL this desire to the world. 

MOST  publications lighten darker people,  because lighter skin and hair reflect more light and are more eye catching, magazines are after all a business. BUT! For example:  Where ARE the cameras that make brown skin look amazing? Oprah has them I can tell you that! LoL! 

But in general, lights and cameras are ALWAYS  tuned for lighter complexions.  This is what institutionalized racism looks like. 

So, for musicians and actresses in the public eye, you are not just  selling your talent, you are actually selling yourself.  YOU become a product.  The less your product fits into conventional beauty ideals, the less MARKETABLE, and therefore, less safe of an investment you are.”

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An example of supposedly race-conscious person's hatred of all conversation-colorism


https://www.colorlines.com/articles/cocoa-butter-indiaarie-and-colorism-trolling-music-industry