I
am married to a beautifully tan petite goddess and my two boys are a wonderful
shade of golden brown. I especially love it when we've just come from the beach
and they're all a deep shiny dark tan color (Except for my daughter and me, we are both pale-skinned and we both come off as red as lobsters). That's why I will
never understand the national obsession with having skin as white as driven
snow.
Why a person who's already a nice tan color would want to look like someone who's been indoors for six weeks is beyond me. We're supposed to be brown. There's a reason why we're the shade we are. We do after all live in the tropics, we as a people get more sun than say Europeans or people who live farther away from the equator, that's why we've developed a darker skin color, its nature's way of protecting us from too much sun. Evolution has made us this color. God painted us this way.
Tisays
and tisoys are beautiful as well of course and believe me I have no quarrel
with pale-skinned people, after all I'm sorta one of them. Plus, I love looking at
tisay beauties as much as the next man, if not more so. What I cannot fathom is
why people who are already a beautiful brown color would want to change the way
they look through artificial means. They use skin creams, lotions, tablets, chemicals,
poisons, hydroquinone, glutathione etc, etc. It's like there's a national
insecurity with the way we look, an insecurity that's being exploited by
cosmetic companies to the tune of a billion pesos a year. What cosmetic
companies and their advertising agencies would like to sell us on is that if a
person has paler skin than most then the heavens will open up and pave their
path to success with gold nuggets, boys or girls will fall from the sky and
immediately become their boyfriends and/or girlfriends, they will suddenly
become famous/movie-tv stars/celebrities and of course they will live happily
ever after. WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP! Personally I would like to believe that
people are only as confident and/or as successful as they make themselves to be,
success and happiness should never be based on skin color.
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