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Edgar Reyna
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Escritor y traductor para Fusion en español

Yeah, this is a big problem with deep roots among Latin American societies. You can get a different (better) treatment in a lot of places if your skin is lighter than the average. It can get uncomfortable. Read more

A page like this could be useful — if it were, say, to help calibrate cameras, to get better results when taking portraits of models with different skin tones. It’s known that film chemistry was biased towards caucasian skin tones, which made taking photos of POC extra challenging. Read more

That’s fair, however I thought the actual intent from the page owner was to show the ridiculousness of the stereotypes whereas Trump going into office shows that people support all of those things. Read more

From what I have read (and we have the same experience as Indians) is it is an extension of rich vs poor. The rich have lighter colored skin since they don’t have to labor in the sun. After a while just having lighter skin was a bonus. Read more

How do you explain the difference from the person with the same skin tone as you? It’s cosmetic. Genetically we are all the same. Genetically there are physical traits associated with peoples of different ethnicity the people of most ethnicities have without any genetic markers that show they came from the specific Read more

It’s a sad truth, you’ll see, i’m lucky that my parents never used classist or racist comments and jokes when i was growing up and first i was in a private school then they switched me to a public elementary school. There i became very confused because even the teachers called me güerito (it means blond or light Read more

I live in Latin America, can confirm. But it seems that the meme was precisely pointing to that inherent racism instead of reinforcing it. I know I’ve been treated in a favourable way because I’m white and my eyes are green. My wife is dark skinned and she has lived discriminations from her peers, even when we both Read more

I used to work at a company where we manufactured glass sample vials for perfume and cosmetics companies. There was one job we would get from time to time that was a mystery to most of us because the print on it was entirely in Chinese characters (could have been Japanese, the characters are the same). I finally Read more

I’m actually surprised this isn’t a Desi page. Is that racist of me? Read more

Pretty sure organ donor suitability has more to do with genetics (relatives being the best matches), health, blood type and economic class than some vague notion of inter-”racial” incompatibility. Read more

Then it must be regional because the whitest of the white all the places I’ve been drink Pabst Blue Ribbon, Coors, Michelob. Read more

Yeah, that’s in the states mainly because of surfers and dude-bros. Modelo tends to be more expensive than Corona in Mexico and so darker folks drink the cheaper beer is the implication. Read more

=\ the exported stuff is usually the best of the barrel Read more

Gotcha .. I guess it’s just weird trying to view Bud as beer. Read more

What’s the deal with Heineken? I was under the impression that it sells itself as a premium Euro brand. Read more