How come skin bleaching never became big in black America like it did in Africa & the Caribbean?

[DonB90]

Bleaching is not common

The likelihood of you visiting any African or Caribbean nation for a week and seeing a bleached person is slim to none.

Issa lie

 

[Ohene]

Issa lie

Dont remember ever seeing a bleacher in Ghana.

 

[HarlemHottie]

this
You can tell the mfs who travel internationally and the ones that ain’t been outside they own city/ state much

In 2011, the World Health Organization reported that 40% of African women bleached their skin. In Nigeria, 77% of women engaged in skin bleaching; in Togo, 59%; in South Africa, 35%; in Senegal, 27% and in Mali, 25%.

 

[Geek Nasty]

Just my opinion but in the US if youre black youre black. We dont really have a caste system where getting light skinned is a power up

 

[TEH]

Only the most gutter of hood rats from any country would ever entertain this … this is not as common as anyone thinks …

Do the research and see that I just shut down the thread …

 

[UncleTomFord15]

Idk about Africa or other Caribbean countries. But I'm Jamaica bleaching isn't no where near as prominent as people think. And realistically you'll get clowned for doing it by most people. With that said it's still embarrassing and pathetic to engage in that type of self hate.

 

[HarlemHottie]

Only the most gutter of hood rats from any country would ever entertain this

All the bleachers I be seeing on 125th are African ladies with bad wigs, sometimes in cultural garb.

 

[Iverson_64]

Idk about Africa or other Caribbean countries. But I'm Jamaica bleaching isn't no where near as prominent as people think. And realistically you'll get clowned for doing it by most people. With that said it's still embarrassing and pathetic to engage in that type of self hate.

I agree.

Some things are blown out of proportion of all sides.

 

[The Guru]

Caribbean has two groups that bleach. Black and Indian (India Indian). Might have something to do with it.

 

[YouMadd?]

because most of us arent even that dark. Some of us are brown with orange tint, brown with yellow tint, maroon colored, light brown, too much variety

 

[UberEatsDriver]

DISCLAIMER: This thread wasn't started to create a diaspora war It's just an observation.



Imagine if Dove started selling skin bleaching cream & had massive advertising campaigns in Atlanta, Baltimore, Philly, Chicago, etc. Unilever (who owns Dove) would be bankrupted by the end of 2023.

Correct your statement because skin bleaching is popular in certain island and African nations.


For example skin bleaching is on another level in Jamaica compared to other islands.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

because most of us arent even that dark. Some of us are brown with orange tint, brown with yellow tint, maroon colored, light brown, too much variety…

The Caribbean black population has similar if not more admixture than black Americans so I’m not really following this right here.

This seems to be more of a story of why “dark” skin black Americans do not bleach as much as “dark” skinned Caribbeans

 

[IslandG]

Skin bleaching is not “big in the Caribbean”. Only in some subsections of Jamaica is skin bleaching a thing. Jamaica is only one island of many.

 

[GreenGhxst]

Most of us are actually proud of who we are and what we overcame in this country

We know their evils too, so we don't want to be them or live underneath them as subservients

That subservient to whites mentality is more common in the Caribbean and African countries

They ain't better than us, and we know it, and we really move the culture world wide

ADOS

 

[In The Zone '98]

Self respect