I just watched the trailer for the Ramayana movie, and NGL I only had two thoughts; One this looks like of awesome though cheesey, Two why is everyone so light skinned?
I’m a full Caucasian person, most of the cast looks lighter skinned than I do.
In Asia preference toward lighter skin tone existed before race idea introduced. Basically peasants working outside got tanned vs nobles staying indoors, it was class-based discrimination. It’s by no means pretty back then and later meld with western racism and got messier
Some Indians are racist as fuck to other Indians. They have a caste system essentially based on skin colour.
Holup
Caste system isn’t based on skin colour
Nope based on birth
Yeah, if that were the case, SRK and Karina Kapoor wouldn’t have had all those skin whitening billboards.
They might be referring to endogamy
*Colorism
Ya I think that says a lot about that society that they like a certain type.
Whitewashing/teaching that paler is purer and better on one side, and unfair representation so the Western audience with fucked education doesn’t get confused on the other. You know I was shocked at the lack of education I had on the region when I discovered that some African populations below Egypt are white. We didn’t get taught this shit
Sidenote: whitewashing comes from lime washing houses.
The meaning is: Whitewashing is the act of minimizing or covering up vices, crimes or scandals, or of exonerating the guilty by means of a perfunctory investigation or biased presentation of data with the intention to improve someone’s reputation.
I feel that annoyance. For example when people call middle-easterners “brown,” happens even on lemmy, but I think it’s used as more of a rhetoric device meaning “non-european” here so it’s not as bad.
I use it as a blanket term for the people Republicans are afraid of.
They think they’re all Muslims so they can’t be white. Which is funny for many reasons but also was true for parts of Europe that weren’t or were Catholic for a period of time.
Is the portrayal in non-Indian films bias or just a consequence of immigration patterns? The Indian immigrants that I’ve met in the USA have usually been relatively dark-skinned.
That you’ve noticed.
I have in mind the people I’ve worked with - I would have known where they were from even if they were lighter-skinned.
That still fits with what I was saying. I wasn’t assigning a negative meaning to it.
Whether conscious or not is up for debate but race is often used in movies around the world to show the contrast between good/attractive/wealthy (white) vs bad/ugly/poor (dark skinned) characters. Even within the same country, main characters are white and tall while servants and background characters are darker and shorter.
I know it’s not even about local populations in the US because a lot of immigrants in LA specifically are light-skinned but those actors usually end up playing white characters more often.
What you are saying is that by combining both industries all sides are represented? 🌈
With our Racism combined, I am Almost Appropriate!
Oh yeesh I don’t do appropriate. Can I show up for the 9PM racism so the kids are all in bed?
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