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06-08-06, 09:16 AM
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I agreethat the tanning may be to copy a Mediterrean look, but the lip plumping andbum enlargements is probably something they picked up from blacks. You forget thata lot of these fadsstarted in Americawhere whitesand blacks have been living along-side each otherfor a very long time.When different cultures live close to each other, they tend to rub of, of each other. And white people are just as subject to this as everyone else. This is why everywhere I turn, I see a white person with dreadlocks and sometimes white women with braids.
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I think rap musicmight have something to do with the big ass thing because rappers just can't seem to talk about anything else. And you know that whenpeople hear something long enough, they start to believe it. As for the big lips, as far as I know whites have been talking about thatfor sometime. Iknew this white girl who would find some way to bring out howshe wanted "pouty" lipslike mine no matter the conversation. She acutally made me feel quite uncomfortablebecauseI'm not usedto females talking aobut my lips. Lol. Anyway,other white girls I know also talkabout Angalina Jolie's andRenee Zelwegger's lips.
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Thething I find with whites, is that they look for "ethnic features" amongst their own peoplebefore they'll accept it as attractive.They arenot like us whopredominately look for non-Africanpeople to find attractive features.If they cannot finda specific featureamongst themselves, they will not be able to pretend thatthey are not seeking another race's look. Therefore, they will not promote it. They also like touse"code" words for these featuresin order toseparatethem fromtheirethnic status and makethem more European.For example,they use such words as "pouty" when refering to big lips and "bronzer" when refering to products whichare essentially intended togive them brownish skin.
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Anyway, I don't think this is going to stop any time soon. White companies make a killingfrom instilling insecurities in white women andall women. Theycannot make money if they sit around and tellwomen tobe happy with the way they are. Theylook at what is considered desirable in each culture and then proceed to marketit,especially if it is something that the majorityof the women of that culture do not have.They'll market lighter skin for black women, daker skin for white women,bigger eyes for Far East Asian women and so on.And what's really sad is thatno matterwhat they do,many of us will fall for it.
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Butthis is not to say that white people suffer from the same insecurities as us. All thisis justa fad for them, while for us it is cultural. White people, like I said, go with whatever their media tells them, and their media changes very quickly. We on the other hand, have these problems deeply ingrained in our culture and it much harder to changethese norms than media influenced ones.
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African heart, African mind
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