One instance that comes to mind is from America's Next Top Model, Cycle 7. Anchal Joseph ( i met her once!!!) is originally from New Delhi, India, but has lived in the US since she was 6.
POINT IS: I remember an episode where she was telling Tyra how in her culture, the lighter-skinned girls were "beautiful" while the darker ones generally were not. She said this as a darker-skinned Indian. She also used to put lighter eye color contacts, to make her super dark brown eyes blue, to try to be lighter.
That's just one example that immediately came to mind, but it directly relates to the question that Sonya brought up.
well this is true. the differences within the light indians and dark indians are there. Even with the color of your eyes..from dark brown to being light brown!!! Then the question arises as to how can a dark indian have light brown eyes!! I mean as if to say that dark girls are doomed! Alot of people have changed and excepted that people are different but it's within the culture that this still is an issue!
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