India, having majority of brown skinned population, is facing issue of calling themselves proudly brown. Reasons to do so are numerous and reflecting the history of India itself like,
1. Most invasions from northwest regions had fairer skin
2.Britishers considered white skin superior
3. World events in American history has also supported same view.
Due to this reason and people veiw that being white means superior along with other things that come in package like being tall, slim etc are become common point of mocking. Indian people themselves being an outcome of long racism, act racist, which is disheartening.
Is it fair?
Everyone would say no. But country is one of the biggest producers of whitening creams for both sexes. Constitution doesn’t support any distinction on basis of caste, colour, age, sex. People also do not support out of peer pressure. But they too have deeply ingrained preference for “fair”.It’s unfair by nature law too.Nobody makes the choice t be born with a particular colour so it biased to say red is beautiful and yellow flower is not.
How it effects our society:
In making friends, profession, marriage partner and also expects babies to be fair evreytime.
The very effect of ” gori chamdi maai baap” has led to discrimination of not-so-fair masses.
A garden must have very hue. And promotion by celebs the very concept of being fair is not t be blamed on them. Recent issue of Indian women of lower caste being unfairly treated by Indian masters in UK itself, where a penalty of 1.76 million pounds was imposed, is the result of changing viewpoint of world with dealing racism. India should also stop discrimination early and not let the roots grow deeper.
Awaked Generation 