Question: Why do you care about skin color?
What kind of emotions do you feel when you see the color black? What kind of emotions do you feel when you see other colors? If you feel a particular emotion when staring at a black color, do you also feel the same emotions when looking at a black car, a black person or the black sky at night? Today, I am briefly wondering about the idea of caring about your own skin color and the skin color of other people.
Why do you care about people of a certain skin color?
Why do you tend to care more about people of certain color when they appear on TV? Why do you feel unsafe around people of a certain color? Would you have watched “The X-Files” if both the actors were of a different skin color? Would you have cared as much about the destruction in Haiti if it was a city in Sweden and everyone suffering was solely white?
How can the same human body evoke such different emotions based on the skin color, when the skin color was not under the control of that particular human being? Why is there an influx in black characters appearing on TV now, only after the election of President Obama? Would we have seen the same trend if John McCain had won the presidency instead? Why or why not? Did you support or disapproval of President Obama have anything to do with his color? You may answer that last question with a “no” in public, though you already know if the real answer is “yes” deep within you.
Which skin color affects you the most? Why?
What is it about the skin color that matters so most? Is it the looks, that looking at something very yellow results in you throwing up? Is it the complexion, that standing under sunlight makes the black skin look uglier to yours? Is it the fashion, that someone with purple skin looks stupid in a red dress? Or is it the comparison of colors standing side by side, that makes you feel that the brown looks better with white than with black? We do not have to look at TV or in the popular culture. We have to look at ourselves. Imagine sitting in a coffee shop, drinking coffee at 11pm, an hour before the shop closes. The entire coffee shop has only you as the last customer, and the coffee shop staff is busy cleaning things in the back. Now imagine a new customer walking in. Which skin color of that new customer would make you feel safe? Which skin color would scare you? Which skin color would evoke no reaction within you? Why do you think such reactions exist?
We can blame everything on TV. We can also blame all our life events and actions on TV too.
Thanks for reading. I really appreciate it. Time for me to go heat some food: I like my food to be of all colors, if possible. [except green!]
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( January 29th, 2010 at 5:46 am )
I believe people focus on skin color so much because of attraction most of the times. Even when someone is off the opposite skin color or a slight variation of are own, we tend to take interest in them either you believe it or not.
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Twitter: @farooqwani19 :
( January 29th, 2010 at 2:34 pm )
well its simple!
its presentation!
its how u look! Your colour will make a difference infront of people who take it as branding stratgy, some classify people fr colour!
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Twitter: @makuahine :
( January 30th, 2010 at 8:01 am )
Q: Why do you care about skin color?
A: I don’t.
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Twitter: @makuahine :
( January 30th, 2010 at 8:01 am )
I didn’t put my Twitter name in but apparently your site remembered it but can you remove it because I deleted Twitter. Thanks
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( January 31st, 2010 at 6:33 am )
This article is an eye opener for everybody. It is really sad that we tend to put people in boxes. I said “we” because I couldn’t be guiltier about this. If people will only stop being so judgemental at one glance then the world may actually be a friendlier place to live in. I know it’s easier said than done but it is not impossible. You were right on to say that we can blame everything on TV but needless to say our life experiences add up to it as well.
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( February 4th, 2010 at 10:55 am )
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Twitter: @dwhitetweets :
( February 4th, 2010 at 4:02 pm )
Does it matter what color skin we are? What matters is the color that makes us all the same…red, the color of blood, the life giving essence which all humans share.
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( February 5th, 2010 at 12:57 pm )
People usually like the people with fair color rather than dark color, well it is the nature of the human beings.
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Twitter: @nuhomesource :
( February 7th, 2010 at 3:57 pm )
I agree with Wendy. It is all about presentation. No if and or buts
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( February 8th, 2010 at 3:01 am )
thanks you very mach
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( February 8th, 2010 at 9:29 am )
I don’t associate the color black with black people. I don’t associate white with white people either… Also, I don’t have the same stereotypes about foreign black people as I do American black people.
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( February 13th, 2010 at 6:55 pm )
It is really sad that we tend to put people in boxes. I said “we” because I couldn’t be guiltier about this. If people will only stop being so judgemental at one glance then the world may actually be a friendlier place to live in. I know it’s easier said than done but it is not impossible.
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( February 18th, 2010 at 3:24 am )
Great color combinition. I am also working on my new website design. It will surely helps me on that
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( February 19th, 2010 at 1:26 am )
@androidity, for example at http://www.androidity.com/labs/seo/numbers2/ or http://www.androidity.com/labs/seo/numbers/
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( February 22nd, 2010 at 11:59 pm )
actually, we don’t call skin color. it should be called completion color.
Q: why we care about completion color.
A: just b/c it will you to realized who you are…
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( March 3rd, 2010 at 1:48 pm )
It is a pretty intersting question you bring up. Why are we so concerned about the color of skin? Great post.
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( March 9th, 2010 at 3:08 am )
May some body color of skin is very important because some time skin reflect what kind of environment they have.
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( March 11th, 2010 at 1:20 am )
I cleanse, tone and moisturize my skin regularly but I`m still finding no. of spots on my skin. is there anything I can do to get rid of my spots?
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