I live life by recognising three things we all share in common…
- We had no say in being born
- We had no say in what vessel we’d get to live in
- We had no say in the conditions we’d be born into
Anyone that can’t acknowledge this has long since been able to acknowledge themselves. They are so lost that they will never find happiness.
On the night she died, Kishandas had brought a plastic bottle with a brown liquid - he said it was a medicine to make her skin fairer.
According to the statements, he applied the liquid to her body and when she complained that it smelled like acid, he set her on fire with an incense stick. When her body started burning, he poured the rest of the liquid on her and ran away.
Kishandas’s parents and sister took her to hospital where she later died.
WTF is the obsession with being light skinned. Even Vietnamese people are like this.
Two reasons:
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Internalised oppression. Because of European colonisation, white skin has been equated to beauty and higher status in former colonies.
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However, even before European colonisation, fairer skin has always been seen as a status symbol. Fairer skin means someone wealthy enough not to work outside being exposed to the sun.
It is not one or the other explanation by the way, these two coalesced. But in some countries that were never colonised by Europeans, the answer for obsession with lighter skin is number 2.
Edit: I should also mention, Europeans used to be obsessed with light skin for the precise reason as number 2. European nobility powdered themselves white. The obsession with getting tanned only came much more recently, because getting tanned implies one can afford holidays and thus a sign of status symbol, at least in Europe.
I thought people valued hard work, why would they idolize a symbol of being lazy?
I think the obsession with hard work only came much more recently in history. I’d say we can blame the North European Protestant work ethic for that one.
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In India, skin color may also have to do with caste level.
Right? I am pale as snow and man I envy people who can just throw on shorts and walk outside without concern because I am an absolute reflective hazard. I could blind someone!
Grass is always greener, I guess…
JD Vance: “Well there goes my exit strategy…”
I skim read the article but I tried to look if the marriage is arranged although it did not mention it. Because I am thinking, if the man is not even attracted to the wife, why marry her? It is likely that their marriage was arranged.
Most marriages in India are heavily arranged. Misogynism is so horribly entrenched, what with reportages of abuses and death levied against women.
Death penalty is too lenient for this scumbag.
