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astral 1 point ago +4 / -3

if that's racist, then being straight is homophobic. outside of western culture, light skin is seen as more beautiful than dark skin, pretty much universally. my wife, who isn't white, always wishes her skin was lighter, and she tells me she wishes our children will "look more like you"; it's not racist to admit for example long noses are prettier than flat ones, just because Africans have flat noses. I disagree with blonde the thing though... blonde eyebrows are a bit weird looking, and fake blondes are meme teir.

it's clear as day making them all black is pandering.

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assault_art 2 points ago +3 / -1

Truth hurts, ouch.

Just look at soap operas from Brasil, and india. Most of the protagonists are light skinned.

One time a long time ago when I sometimes browsed youtube with no adblocker I saw an hindi music video, the guy who was singing wasn't particularly white, but the chick he was singing about was very light skinned, and even blonde, but probably died hair. Seems to me they got a guy that hindi men could identify with, and are feeding their ideal women fantasies.

Back to Brazil, not only are the protagonists mostly white, most of the characters period. There was once a soap about racism being bad, so in that case some of the protagonists were dark skinned (not all of them), when that was over it was back to almost entirely light skinned.

So that's those two, how about mexico? hmm... seems to be about the same, most of them don't look aborigine or anything.

Literally like 12 years ago I was watching a video of Disney's three caballeros on youtube and was baffled at all the ignorant comments regarding the Brazilian dances being performed by seemingly white people, muh-racism, all I could think was about those damn Brazilian soaps that these people clearly had no idea about!

By the way, there's an old Brazilian soap about islam, "the clone", the focus of the story is the relationship between a woman that wants to escape islam and a human clone that is her romantic interest. It tackles mostly how one woman wants to be free and do whatever she wants and isn't allowed by the men AND WOMEN in her family. I remember an episode in which a teenage girl is tattled by her brother that she got her first period, meaning from that point on she would have to wear a hijab, which she didn't want to wear. They were ahead of their times, it's from like the year 2000.