Steak Barbie Doll
What do these two images have in common? Not much in itself, but in fact it is what I have to look into the eyes of most Filipinos when I pass (and it must be the same for all the white girls ...).
How to describe this strange feeling? Hard to say, it does not necessarily make it account the first time, these are just the aftertaste left in thoughts, in small steps.
First, these huge billboards everywhere with beautiful models, they might as well be in Europe or the U.S., as women or men who are represented are not of here, or at least does not look like people you meet on the street. Why? They are just too white!
With the strong sun of those latitudes, normal people (I mean, not vampires, or in this case, people who leave de chez eux pour entrer dans leur voiture, qui les dépose à 2m de leur destination, pour les récupérer au même endroit avant de rentrer à la maison, cela sans approcher la lumière du jour), sont bronzés ici.
Mais les mannequins des panneaux publicitaires sont aussi ceux qu’on retrouve à la télé ou dans les magazines people, ceux qui ont réussi, qui sont riches, ils sont blancs.
Alors, complexe d’infériorité, occasionné par des siècles d’invasion occidentale, ou volonté d’ascension par l’apparence ? On ne le saura peut-être jamais.
Toujours est-il that girls and boys, Filipinos, will try to stay as white as possible, or to become one.
And all means are good, starting with sun protection. It's a good thing you'll tell me, but when it turns to obsession (not to exit the air in day care, I could tan), it becomes worrisome. The worst is yet to come.
Indeed, how do all these people that they have no drivers or can not afford to take a taxi? Those who work outdoors? Well, cosmetics and pharmaceutical lab always have a solution: the soap / cream / powder bleach or whitener, innocent form, a simple soap, is a stick of dynamite, toxic wish (not for everyone, but what sells on the street should not be certified AB ...), carcinogen; based papaya, or glutathione, or even protein placenta, everything is good to be white.
It's true strafing advertising! Be white, become white, stay white, white is beautiful!
is considered almost being tanned is dirty ... and that will ruin nutritional supplements whitening will get rich later ... it depresses me deeply!
If we fight to kick out the anorexic models in Europe, it also makes clear out the dummies too white here!
is considered almost being tanned is dirty ... and that will ruin nutritional supplements whitening will get rich later ... it depresses me deeply!
If we fight to kick out the anorexic models in Europe, it also makes clear out the dummies too white here!
But what does a person really white, like me?
First we look at all the time, almost everywhere .... So we must learn not to pay attention, not to watch people. It looks at different ways:
- what is a white girl doing here? AND kind
- Whaa too good, and there two types of reaction:
==> if it's a girl, she'll be laughing to himself, without one really understands why, with the impression she makes fun of you, but it's not even that ;
==> if it's a boy, you will feel to look like a piece of meat, like a sex object, and you will feel you very very very bad, especially if the guy in question is old and ugly or that you're all alone in a subway train and everyone is watching you!
So lessons learned:
- do not walk around in tank tops or shorts too short, even dressed as a big bag of potatoes, you will still be a bomb,
-Do not give your phone number / email / facebook that is bound to ask you, because this is the end of the peace (this is not Marie Laure).
-and learn to refuse (maybe next time), or be fake!
Despite this and any inconvenience this may cause, it's still interesting to see how we can move from a country where the alien is regarded almost as a nuisance or to another, where it is if it does is admired, at least watched with interest and curiosity! Last
small detail: we must learn to ask, because wherever you go, the gens demandent (ou prennent sans demander même parfois), des photos, avec eux ou juste nous ! Je pense que je vais commencer une carrière de top model ici, haha !!
First we look at all the time, almost everywhere .... So we must learn not to pay attention, not to watch people. It looks at different ways:
- what is a white girl doing here? AND kind
- Whaa too good, and there two types of reaction:
==> if it's a girl, she'll be laughing to himself, without one really understands why, with the impression she makes fun of you, but it's not even that ;
==> if it's a boy, you will feel to look like a piece of meat, like a sex object, and you will feel you very very very bad, especially if the guy in question is old and ugly or that you're all alone in a subway train and everyone is watching you!
So lessons learned:
- do not walk around in tank tops or shorts too short, even dressed as a big bag of potatoes, you will still be a bomb,
-Do not give your phone number / email / facebook that is bound to ask you, because this is the end of the peace (this is not Marie Laure).
-and learn to refuse (maybe next time), or be fake!
Despite this and any inconvenience this may cause, it's still interesting to see how we can move from a country where the alien is regarded almost as a nuisance or to another, where it is if it does is admired, at least watched with interest and curiosity! Last
small detail: we must learn to ask, because wherever you go, the gens demandent (ou prennent sans demander même parfois), des photos, avec eux ou juste nous ! Je pense que je vais commencer une carrière de top model ici, haha !!
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