Western Colorism vs Asian Colorism (Assist Cos JP product controversy)
If you're still on doubt on distributing the previous product, just sell it as shading foundation. It can serve as liquid contour as well as tanner and to even out some skin tone (LIKE I DO HAVE AS WELL AS MANY OTHERS).
Certainly MANY PEOPLE don't know how there are many other people (cue, Asians for one) that could benefit from that product, as how there are OTHER RACES that actually are able to sport 2-3 shades of skin daily, weekly, or even at the same time just because our skin's melanine is just THAT ADAPTIVE & FLEXIBLE.
I won't even start on how they keep mistaking and forcing context, history, and intention on us as if the existing (yet somewhat forgotten, other than for names alone) other races have not been enslaved, colonialized, killed, hunted down, bullied, for that as well; like we had suffer none and to speak on our behalf like they know better simply because we don't think the way they do, that something a big deal to them isn't one to us.
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Doubt they even remember how SEA regions span over the globe. There's a reason why there's hardly any SEA people in western mainstream media, idk if they're trying to forget us or what.
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You know, maybe you see it that way, but people here welcome just any products allowing darker shades to exist. It's a big development but it's still a step forward.
There are indeed Asians with more persistent genes that have darker skins that aren't as adaptive as others (my country got hundreds subraces, ...and perhaps due to colonialism by westerners way back some degree of colorism did develop, we do acknowledge the issue). The lighter ones always get more favored in media, but that's why these products (that is distributed in OUR market) are important to us for people (who got multiple shades range personally) to start choosing a few shades darker (instead of choosing their lightest personal shade due to the whitewashed standards).
From then the general public standards would gradually shift and more darker skinned people (especially those who skins aren't as adaptive) would gradually be seen more favorably until at last we are closer to balance.
That's why I said (amongst many things in my other comments) we got our own problem and different ways to take care of it with. Blackfacing isn't an issue here where the product is marketed. Our regions got widely different circumstances than yours where blackfacing originated (e.g. the existence of us Asians with highly adaptable skin shades, for one) that made how we deal, react, and take care of it to be different as well, and honestly isn't other people's right to judge and dictate. The problem might seem similar but it's not the same yet it exists here and it's OURS to deal with the way we do it. That's our REALITY that, just like blackfacing in it's origin places, are not for people to put blind eyes to.
That's why many people here kept on saying the product is not about blackfacing. The shades, to wear, are many people's born rights, in which wearing them are not meant to offend you in the first place. By forcing and dictating your views on this to us is basically taking our born rights as well for offense we never do simply because 'we feel so, what if we feel so'. Even the most basic logic can explain what that means to put crime on others that never did it (as it's never a case of ignorant bliss either) simply because you 'feel so'.
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Yeah, even they do that to be characters that aren't even Japanese or Asian either. They just generally do that to make sharp or slanted eyes (which we don't see as anything bad...but it seems they accuse us the ASIANS ourselves otherwise as if people trying to do that is bad, or a bad feature to have?)
We all see it as technical and dedication and they got mad thinking it as insensitive for our own features that somehow they see bad if replicated? Wow, just wow. I mean we know when someone is mocking (which they do, btw, by making these taped eyes mockery comments and thinking we'll blindly react) and that's not funny (or idk, even my Chinese friend sometimes think it's funny), but thankfully we can extinguish context well.
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The thing that annoys me the most tbh, is that just because it appears somewhat the same, they think it IS and SHOULD BE treated the same. It's like everyone born with certain skin ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD is automatically to be burdened with their own context and ignoring what the actual person actually go through.
IT'S THE VALUE THAT MATTERS, WHAT YOU WENT THROUGH, NOT THE VESSEL. What makes the context seem bad is not the dark skin itself, if we are about equality color-wise. It's the history, the circumstances that made things should be treated (or fixed) certain ways (like banning actual blackfacing). So why please tell, do these people automatically assume that just because someone, in other very different part of the world living a very different life, is born with similar dark skin that they have the right to push on their standards and contexts onto them while totally being blind if not denying said person's reality of what he/she/they actually went through and the ways seen fit to deal with such life?
Just because it LOOKS the same the value of the matter IS NOT. YES we might have some degree of colorism (that *cough* big part is caused by the same economy those people are relying on), but it's not THEIR kind of colorism. They went down differently and we see, react, and deal with it differently, so please don't ignore and be blind to the statements and informations we sent your way and claim things HERE with your standards originating somewhere else?? Our problem are as real as yours are, stop invalidating us AT LEAST on our grounds.
Certainly MANY PEOPLE don't know how there are many other people (cue, Asians for one) that could benefit from that product, as how there are OTHER RACES that actually are able to sport 2-3 shades of skin daily, weekly, or even at the same time just because our skin's melanine is just THAT ADAPTIVE & FLEXIBLE.
I won't even start on how they keep mistaking and forcing context, history, and intention on us as if the existing (yet somewhat forgotten, other than for names alone) other races have not been enslaved, colonialized, killed, hunted down, bullied, for that as well; like we had suffer none and to speak on our behalf like they know better simply because we don't think the way they do, that something a big deal to them isn't one to us.
-
Doubt they even remember how SEA regions span over the globe. There's a reason why there's hardly any SEA people in western mainstream media, idk if they're trying to forget us or what.
-
You know, maybe you see it that way, but people here welcome just any products allowing darker shades to exist. It's a big development but it's still a step forward.
There are indeed Asians with more persistent genes that have darker skins that aren't as adaptive as others (my country got hundreds subraces, ...and perhaps due to colonialism by westerners way back some degree of colorism did develop, we do acknowledge the issue). The lighter ones always get more favored in media, but that's why these products (that is distributed in OUR market) are important to us for people (who got multiple shades range personally) to start choosing a few shades darker (instead of choosing their lightest personal shade due to the whitewashed standards).
From then the general public standards would gradually shift and more darker skinned people (especially those who skins aren't as adaptive) would gradually be seen more favorably until at last we are closer to balance.
That's why I said (amongst many things in my other comments) we got our own problem and different ways to take care of it with. Blackfacing isn't an issue here where the product is marketed. Our regions got widely different circumstances than yours where blackfacing originated (e.g. the existence of us Asians with highly adaptable skin shades, for one) that made how we deal, react, and take care of it to be different as well, and honestly isn't other people's right to judge and dictate. The problem might seem similar but it's not the same yet it exists here and it's OURS to deal with the way we do it. That's our REALITY that, just like blackfacing in it's origin places, are not for people to put blind eyes to.
That's why many people here kept on saying the product is not about blackfacing. The shades, to wear, are many people's born rights, in which wearing them are not meant to offend you in the first place. By forcing and dictating your views on this to us is basically taking our born rights as well for offense we never do simply because 'we feel so, what if we feel so'. Even the most basic logic can explain what that means to put crime on others that never did it (as it's never a case of ignorant bliss either) simply because you 'feel so'.
-
Yeah, even they do that to be characters that aren't even Japanese or Asian either. They just generally do that to make sharp or slanted eyes (which we don't see as anything bad...but it seems they accuse us the ASIANS ourselves otherwise as if people trying to do that is bad, or a bad feature to have?)
We all see it as technical and dedication and they got mad thinking it as insensitive for our own features that somehow they see bad if replicated? Wow, just wow. I mean we know when someone is mocking (which they do, btw, by making these taped eyes mockery comments and thinking we'll blindly react) and that's not funny (or idk, even my Chinese friend sometimes think it's funny), but thankfully we can extinguish context well.
-
The thing that annoys me the most tbh, is that just because it appears somewhat the same, they think it IS and SHOULD BE treated the same. It's like everyone born with certain skin ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD is automatically to be burdened with their own context and ignoring what the actual person actually go through.
IT'S THE VALUE THAT MATTERS, WHAT YOU WENT THROUGH, NOT THE VESSEL. What makes the context seem bad is not the dark skin itself, if we are about equality color-wise. It's the history, the circumstances that made things should be treated (or fixed) certain ways (like banning actual blackfacing). So why please tell, do these people automatically assume that just because someone, in other very different part of the world living a very different life, is born with similar dark skin that they have the right to push on their standards and contexts onto them while totally being blind if not denying said person's reality of what he/she/they actually went through and the ways seen fit to deal with such life?
Just because it LOOKS the same the value of the matter IS NOT. YES we might have some degree of colorism (that *cough* big part is caused by the same economy those people are relying on), but it's not THEIR kind of colorism. They went down differently and we see, react, and deal with it differently, so please don't ignore and be blind to the statements and informations we sent your way and claim things HERE with your standards originating somewhere else?? Our problem are as real as yours are, stop invalidating us AT LEAST on our grounds.
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