As a brazilian, I totally agreed with what you've said. The european features are more praised instead of the skin color itself. In fact, the tanned look is extremely well perceived here, it gives that beach vibe.
Glad I went natural and tried to stop fitting in, used to wear blue contacts and straighten my hair and almost bleached my skin, now I love myself for who I am. Sad this is still a thing smh
Had a phase like that myself as a middle eastern male growing up in a nordic country. Glad that phase is long gone. Couldn't be more comfortable in my own skin as I am now. PS: african hair is the best hair out there and african girls look super nice with their natural hair texture 😍😍
Thefire I get that you’re feeling comfortable in your own skin now and that’s great but no need to think you’re suddenly better/have the best xyz things
I'm black and I used to want to be light skinned so bad, but it was sad how it was my own family members who praised lighter skin as better and more attractive.
www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/f9ati8/comment/fivvffk I saw this on reddit a couple days ago. I went to a diverse high school and I never understood why African Americans would stereotype themselves by color.
@@AvengeHergears just read the post. The reason why we have to distinguish our selves is because the experience and treatment one may receive can be linked to the lightness of darkness of ones skin. So even when we all want to unify we can see that lighter skinned people will get better treatment which will alienate them from the rest of the race.
But you do understand why, don't you? So, change that with your own children, instead of perpetuating it. That's just one of the many things we can do.
I hate going to an all white high school because my boyfriend is a person of color. Everyone outside of my high school thinks he’s gorgeous (as do I) but none of my white friends care for his appearance because he’s not white. Sometimes it takes getting out of that environment to realize you’re actually good looking, but just not white
@@alexandraxox I felt like that in college. I went to a majority white high school and while I was awkward and didn't have the best social skills I wasn't this outcast. Never really got any attention but when I got to college I actually started getting attention. My college had much more ethnicities.
@@boxtobox10o it's still this way except black men have joined the "pretty boy", "hot" squad or whatever you wanna call it. I would say it's because of rap becoming the most popular genre in America and with the rise of stars like Michael b Jordan, Idris Elba, Chadwick Boseman. It'll take some time for Asians of all geographic regions to enter the limelight.
@@temposetter1091 yeah but in general most Asians do not fit the pretty boy aesthetic. Maybe as kpop grows they might. Right now, average Asian men have it rough.
Man Latinamerica is way too rooted with racism (and classism) towards dark and brown skinned people. If you watch any kind of show from whichever country, almost all the celebrities are white, but common people on the streets don't look like that (maybe some, but it's not the avarage person)
I agree. I'm Argentinian, and here (or at least the area that I live in) I mostly see more European looking people, including myself. As my uncle said, "Tans, or darker skin tones, are only seen as attractive if a white person has them"
@@user-mz6lw2qk2b I wish! As a dark-skinned person in Latin America I spend my whole childhood feeling inferior because of it. I'm not proud of that, but that is what was taught to us from the beginning, even if it's through unconscious behaviors. Once an adult you realize stuff like that doesn't matter, but sadly no: most of us were made to believe fair skin is the most beautiful... and had to LEARN to see the beauty of darker tones (which ARE beautiful, we are just taught otherwise).
You're right when it comes to high fashion non-white models picking only the models who are the extreme of their race. You never see just a regular brown skinned black model...they are ALWAYS the darkens of the dark...midnight blue black with small European noses and very full lips. Even with Winnie...she's techiqually a brown skinned black woman, but she has a genetic disorder so again she's an extreme of our race. I've never seen just the average brown skinned black woman who is a super model.
Not sure how young you are but in the 90s there were TONS of dark and brown skinned models. For instance :Kiara Kabukuru, Anansa Johnson, Beverley Johnson, Naomi Campbell, Lana Ogilvie,Roshumba,Arlenis Sosa, Beverley Peele, the list goes on. The modelling industry was way more diverse in the 90s than it is now.
PrincessLeah187 xx age has nothing to do witj what I said. I said when it comes to the high end fashion industry they will only pick out the most extreme of minorities looks. They will pick the tallest, darkest, bald headed model from Africa that they can find. I remember clearly the 80's and 90's and the fashion industry is getting worse when it comes to picking these extremes in models.
Doesn’t that count for every race in modelling, the white models have very exaggerated sharp noses and eyeshapes, usually are as pale as possible. I agree there could be more diversity but ofc the high fashion models are going to be extremes, that’s the point.
I went to a school with a minority of white people, most of the students were Asian, mainly Indian, or black. Growing up my favourite Barbie was a black ballerina with a purple dress and really curly hair with caramel highlights, I thought she was so beautiful and I painted her nails gold with a toothpick and carried her around. I guess it makes sense based on the school I went to, white wasn’t as much the default to me because as a child your school environment is like your whole world.
@@mIsErIeSandDrAmA theres a thing called media. We have media here too but in Trinidad African diaspora wanted to look mixed. We wanted curly hair and light brown skin but no one i knew wanted to be blonde and blue eyes because mixed people (african + white) were treated better so the goal is to look mixed. Trinidad indian diaspora on the other hand want to look blue eye/blonde hair since their phenotype is already closer to typical european (eg: straight hair) but they are still dark haired, eyed and skinned so they try to get closer to European in their own way. Its really all colonization's fault
Same in the sense of not having a white beauty standard while growing up. Dispite live in the US and going to all white schools. There's a theory about first introduction that basically states that the first images that a child associates with beauty, set their beauty standard.
Colorism is strong in India but a lot of evidence says it preceded European colonialism. For example skin shade has strong correlation to caste and the Europeans simply weren't in India long enough to create that trend. Colorism might have roots in migration/invasion from the northwest, places like Persia, long before the Euopeans.
I'd argue that colorism and racism coincide and feed off of eachother in that colorism favors lighter skin, as does the racism often perpetuated through eurocentrism- especially in today's day and age.
I’m honestly so bitter about how scientific discoveries are portrayed as if it’s all European, not that they didn’t contribute at all but they were pretty late to the party, especially in mathematics
@@user-eu8su7ss5x I think what's funny is so many white people have recessed faces. Even in those modeling shots they just angle or edit to make the chin/jaw/maxilla stronger than it really is. I guess it's really a rarity. But I notice that some Asians and Latinos have stronger bone structure compared to the rest. I don't think this has to do with race though, it probably comes from tribe and genetics.
@@islamisthetruth3402 so true. I really hate when people lump the entire continent together as if we're one unified force. Italians and Norwegians are so diametrically opposite to each other they don't really have much in common.
Woo yes, In Europe, white people tan their skin, while people in Asia, for example (who tend to have darker skin) bleach their skin. It's illogical but that's how the cosmetics industry makes money. Every skin tone is beautiful
There is nothing wrong with being a Racist if it means loving your own people IDK why people assume if you love your own people that means you automatically hate people of other Races Loving your Race =/= Hating other Races, Nature herself is racist
ʀɪᴄᴇ ᴄᴀᴋᴇ I remember I got ridiculed by a couple of women because I hadn’t mentioned the black men in a Love Island video. I was just like “But I didn’t mention any Latino or oriental men either”. But yeah I do believe a white inferiority complex is in a lot of Asians. And I have no idea why it’s there and why I feel it at times
why tf do pple try to always diminish racial struggles, like "Let's not bring race into this" wtf, my ethnicity has literally affected my life and shaped some of my insecurities, so please do talk more abt these issues
@@BitchChill but people obviously have racial and ethnic preferences when it comes to what they find attractive. So “NoT eVeRyThInG iS AbOuT RaCE!” Doesnt apply here because sure, not everything is about race but you cant just throw that phrase around whenever you dont want to talk about race when race has clearly played a role in what is being talked about.
As someone who is asian living in England, I don’t know whether I should love tanned or fair skin. In England everyone praises my tanned skin, when I travel to my home country I get told I’m too tanned... some days I’ll fake tan, some days I’ll use lighter foundation.
That's a good point, many people in North America like and prefer the tanned look, compared to certain asian countries where people who have a good tan try to appear more pale by applying product etc.
My problem is more that my actual skin hue isn't nice together with many of my favourite colours haha. I did get a cream that "dyed" my skin once though. I'll use it when I want to wear those clothes haha
you don't have to follow the beauty standards of either country. it's okay to own what you have with pride and without reservations. let your skin be skin, tan or white.
I find it sad to process that this is the video that got very little views compared to others. 100k or 200k or even 300k people would rather hear about plastic surgery, photoshop, and celebs (which you do a phenomenal job of explaining nonetheless. This not meant to take away from your work in any way. ) rather than real life dehumanization and oppression towards our fellow human, the root of segregation, and how years of Eurocentric norms have brainwashing those who do/don't naturally conform. I feel like a huge majority of this video attracts people who've actually been through this and repels those who haven't (white guilt maybe? Guilt for benefitting from this? Or maybe just hearing about it make them uncomfortable.) My friend is a very white looking Hispanic girl although I'm sure she part white somewhere-- any time I bring up something similar like this or how it affected me, she subtly shuts me down. Until 2 minutes later I wonder why the conversation is over and realized what she did. Me-- trying to be the good friend, doesn't want to bring it up again because it clearly doesn't affect her and makes her uncomfortable. Or another very lighter skinned hispanic girl and I were debating what colorism is and she said it affects lighter skin people too. I had to face palm. Telling me I was somehow misrepresenting black people and honestly I think I need new friends.
Why do you want us to feel guilty for living in our own world where we are ideal - i get minorities in Western countries having issues with representation, but we have people from Asia, Africa demanding "vetter" representation in western media which is mind blowing, why would your identity have issues for being not represented in media of countries you dont even live in -like Asians complaining model Vogue posted dosent look "average cute Asian" ok so dont read damn Vogue, Western magazine that looks to world through Western eyes, read Asian magazines that represent you bettet - simple.
Not just that their uncomfy though def a part of it. A lot of it is because white is the standard and default and they don’t care about anything but that! They don’t admit it but look, most of them couldn’t tell you anything about black culture, black movies etc. if they see a black face on a movie or as a lead, it’s black and they don’t want to see it! They make sure their support is withdrawn. The science behind that is complex, but mostly has to do with oppression, power, self centeredness and privilege
I completely see what you're saying. I'm a black woman but lately have been avoiding videos on the topic of race and oppression, simply because I don't like being reminded of how unfair society is. However, more people should be open to watching these types of videos, at least to educate themselves.
How is whiteness the status quo in the world? Whites only make up around 10% of the worlds population (probably lower if you discount Mixed “whites” and Non-European ethnicities). Are whites the status quo in Asia, the Middle East and Africa and their cultures? The reason you believe “whiteness” is the status quo is because you probably live in a western country where whites are the majority and you resent whites for this. You don’t have some advanced reasoning behind your beliefs, you are just resentful.
That's only because of the rise of television, media, and even globalization. It should be up to the individual races to NOT follow these standards as they have their own beauty. It's our (I'm asian) fault we normalized it as *the* standard.
@@bw655 it's because of popular media is all white people across the world from movies to tv shows to even games this had an effect on conditioning societies all over the world
3:06 is factually incorrect. I am a South African and Afrikaners are white people descended from Dutch people who speak a language extremely similar to Dutch, and this ethnic group is currently dispersed throughout South Africa and Namibia, as well as parts of Zimbabwe and Botswana. Afrikaners are not people who were sold in slave trading to the West. Modern Americans of African descent are mainly from West Africa, the furthest south that slave traders went is modern day Angola. The study is speaking about African Americans, however uses the spelling Afrikans which is similar to the name of the language and ethnic group Afrikaans. This is where I believe the confusion stems from. Otherwise, good video!
The “doll beauty experiment” has always fascinated me. I collected dolls in the past. Even in very young childhood I was always thrilled to find Black dolls or racially ambiguous looking dolls. They weren’t easy finds and many of them had features not portrayed in Caucasian looking dolls. It was like winning the jackpot whenever I found one. I had friends who collected and they were strictly Caucasian only collectors. I always thought they were weird.
I had lot sof barbies. Of course, most were blonde. But I grew tired of them (they all looked the same! Blonde and blue eyes) while I cherished the more 'exotic' dolls way more and took better care of them. This sadly also includes the dolls that looked like myself, as I am a redhead.
Yeah, most of my barbies were blonde and blue eyed because of how prevalent they were. But I loved Bratz dolls, especially Yasmin because I thought she was the most beautiful/stylish
Have you noticed that anytime a blacks person is the face of your videos that it’s at least 100k less views than the rest of your videos. Yep it’s just a common thing in the world that is super reflected on the internet. Says a lot about people and how they feel about black people.
As a European we consider Fair skin unnatractive. A golden tan is wealth for vacations and stays. It’s the light eyes and hair which is placed on a pedestal.
I am so happy I found this video. Some people insist things like colorism, featurism, and texturism does not exist. I guess you have evidence of how they exist.
Thank you for actually mentioning where you got your references from and putting the work into it. So that other people can do more research or make up their own mind.
Light skin in many countries was seen as a sign of beauty in nations like india or china before contact with the west. That standard of lighter skin being more beautiful going back thousands of years. While there may be countries that where influenced by eurocentrism, it doesn't mean all nations that came into contact with europeans see those features beautiful because of those europeans.
China always had contact with Caucasians, they werent English but they were Slavic for example, there ars Caucasian mummies in China with caucasian faces and red hair -you make it seem like Asians and the Caucasoids didnt have interaction which is untrue, Russians and other slavs have mixed with Central and East Asians for ageees
@Amazon Prime, not true. Colorism started by race mixing with other races. However, I will say that the workers worked in the sun and were darker than the more privileged that stay inside could play a part in colorism today.
It's interesting how much a "tall blue-eyed blonde" obsession is an american thing. In my country naturally blonde people are often considered to be too pale, boring or even plain actually. I doubt someone like Gwyneth Paltrow or even Blake Lively would likely be crowned the high school beauty queen.
@@faustogiorno2300 Most likely it's a Norwegian country like Sweden. Only the cities have foreign immigrants of color. So she's probably from the countryside of her country where it's more homogenous.
I like how informative your videos are but I hope you realise different European countries have different beauty standards, just as different Asian or African countries do. It's not accurate to say European beauty ideals are 'blonde hair, blue eyes and white skin'. Many mediterranean and eastern europeans have tan skin and dark hair and eyes and are seen as gorgeous. Do you think European beauty standards are universal between an Albanian and a Norweigan? I think this Eurocentric beauty standard you are talking about is correct, but applies more to Western Europe and colonial European countries such as the US, Canada, Australia etc.
Thank you! I agree so much with this. Why they (meaning: mostly people from US) act like Europe is one big hive mind that has the same culture and same history including history of colonialism? There are European countries that DID NOT participate in colonialism for fuck's sake!! Platinum blonde hair, blue eyes and very light, pale skin is a very specific Nordic standard beauty which is one of variations of EU beauty standards but not THE ONLY ONE AND ONLY EUROPEAN beauty standard that exists IN ALL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. All people in Europe don't look the same just like all Africans and Asians don't, there isn't even a "European average look" just like there isn't "African average look" but there definetely are "average Macedonian look" or "average Nigerian look" etc. Many times Europeans are able to guess who is from what country by looking at their facial features - "oh she looks Ukrainian" or "is he from France? He looks French" and many times the shade of a skin of a person doesn't even play a role in this (and fashion style even less). There are many naturally pale Italian people and many naturally tanned Poles for example but you can still tell them apart. Just because you are tanned doesn't mean you have to be Italian or Greek. And obviously - which comes with all of it (different facial features, structures + history and cultures) are different beauty standards in those countries on all of our existing continents.
Aroha It’s just about power and imposing other ethnic and non-white beauty standards through media, it dose not matter to them that European beauty standards vary according to different ethnicities and nationalities
It's a < 10 minute video, he has to paint with broad strokes. He cited multiple sources and there are many more out there that say the same: the ideal is eurocentric. While there certainly are variations on the theme, he's covering what he can in the time allotted, and the "highest" ideal still tends towards blonde hair, blue eyes. Just watch news coverage. Brunettes might get some, but the majority of the stories that are picked up locally, nationally, and internationally about missing people are blonde haired, blue eyed white females, with everyone else falling somewhere off in the distance. When it's so prevalent that whom we "care" about when they go missing is affected by it that's about all she wrote.
wrong. People think of Eastern Europeans as blond. Scandinavian and Baltic/Slavic girls are considered to be the most beautiful because of that reason. Blonds and Gingers are the rarest type of people. Their beauty naturally should be more cherished compared to 90% of people with dark hair and dark eyes.
I know this is late haha but I have to say the quality of your videos are amazing. The fact that you dive deep into the academic and scientific literature and don’t shy away from the deep routed complexities of culture and the general understanding of things, especially in the west, is phenomenal and a breath of fresh air. There isn’t that surface level following of long held conventions, as you truly undertake in critical thinking and offer concepts that are generally difficult for people to take in. As it flies in the face of most of how we perceive the world. The fact that you are doing this on TH-cam in the current climate we are living in is not only brave, but inspiring to say the least. This video really demonstrates that and I hope you keep doing your thing. You definitely got a new subscriber! Thank you for the videos!
It's all in an effort to look more racially ambiguous. Big lips, tiny nose, light eyes, chiseled sharp features, tan skin, loose curly hair/lighter color hair (curly hair on lighter skin and lighter hair on tan skin) is all just a way to look mixed or "exotic" If you asked half these girls on Instagram why they chose this look they wouldn't be able to tell you anything with much sense.
@@Des_. But you have to agree, White features are still the dominant. And it gives off the vibe that colored women cannot be beautiful unless they have white in their blood. Basically saying that the blonde haired blue eyed girl is pretty. But the black girl can only be pretty if shes biracial and one of her parents is white. Again the subliminal message that only colored people who were colonized or touched by the white hand can be recognized. It leaves other non biracial colored women feeling left out and biracial colored women feeling they are lucky for their whiteness.
@@Des_. Nicki is literally of mixed heritage being from Trinidad&Tobago,her real name is Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty and she has a full Asian Grandfather with is common on the Islands.
Nicki Minaj never “lightened” anything, ricecel. She’s always been light skinned and Ariana Grande is just an insecure Idumean (so-called White) woman and most Idumean women have low self-esteem. So I’m not surprised to see Ariana Grande hating the way she looks.
Nicki Minaj didn’t “lightened” anything, ricecel. She’s always been naturally light skinned. Ariana Grande darkening her skin is just a result of her hating her natural features as most Idumean (so-called White) women do because they’re insecure about the way they look. What you should be worried about is why Moabite and Ammonite (so-called Oriental) men so undesirable your own women don’t even want you 😂.
This channel has made me reassess how I consume “beauty” content online. I’m wondering if you could do another video discussing live video filters & editing. I used to think in all makeup pictures & videos that the models have perfectly smooth & hairless skin but now I question everything. Is it possible that videos can be edited to keep skin texture but get rid of facial hairs ie: hairs on cheeks & upper lip?
Let me answer that question for you. It's absolutely possible to do (live) videos with filters. Think about Instagram's camera, which has the options integrated in the very bottom you use to get started.
I heard it's very popular for female models/people who wear a lot of makeup to shave their face I use to do it too for a while but honestly, it's a lot to keep up with on top of everything else
Rose Yeah, I’ve heard of dermaplaning or shaving. I love this youtuber PICTURRESQUE Regina; she does a lot of close ups and while she has very lovely skin with few blemishes I can still see the texture & hairs so I’ve become more skeptical of other makeup channels. It’s quite disillusioning to know most makeup people fake their work
And fun fact, European beauty standards were extremely Roman-centric in the past. All books I've read from the 19th century have characters that either congratulate themselves on having or lament not having roman features such as noses (in particular). It never was as simple as in Europe has one standard and has enslaved the entire world to an affinity for that one standard.
Europeans colonized most of the continents around the world and stole other people’s work and claimed it as their own; medicine, written language, agriculture, and math were not discovered by the Europeans yet Europeans don’t want to acknowledge that fact. They imposed their own standards on the countries that they colonized while degrading the features and accomplishments of the indigenous people. Addressing what Europeans did in the past doesn’t mean that we’re blaming modern day Europeans, it means that we want to spark a change in media and try to reverse the negative effects of colonialism.
I don't think most honest White people will claim they invented medicine, written language, agriculture, or math, but to act as if white people have not made incredible strides in these fields would be insane. Penicillin, antibiotics, and modern sterilization techniques are all standard in medicine today. Differential & Integral Calculus, Game Theory, Geometry, Trigonometry, were all largely created by whites. Even on a more broad scale white people are responsible for: Electricity, Cars, the Internet, Skyscrapers/Buildings, the printing press, the internal combustion engine, the only race that has been to moon, and sites like TH-cam, Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, etc. Can any other race match or exceed what white people have invented?
Justin I’m not suggesting that white people haven’t made advancements in those fields, I’m stating that there are other people who have made advancements that aren’t accredited for their accomplishments. And to answer your *problematic* question, yes if there were was another race that colonized, enslaved, and disenfranchised most of every other race then they could have had as many accomplishments. No race is superior to any other and the fact that you insinuated that with your question is alarming.
Straight noses are not a global beauty indicator . I’m Nigerian and your nose doesn’t haven’t to be straight to be considered as beautiful it just needs to be in proportion to the rest of your face !
5 and most of western and Southern Africa (the native black population) straight noses are a European and south Asian beauty standard . Round noses and flat noses are not shunned or seen as ugly
@@user-eu8su7ss5x how can u say if ur nose is wider than rihanna it's not normal, it all depends on ur facial features, it acc can suit someone. So shush.
Amazing video. The narratives we're told greatly influence our perceptions, and even our identities. Plus, it's easier to push new narratives when they're just an extension of what most people already believe.
I remember when I was 6 I wanted a nose job so badly (because my nose is wide) I’m 14 now and even though I don’t like my nose, I think it suits my face in some way, like I grew into it
and this is why i have body dysmorphia... 😂 this shit makes me sad but it also motivates me to be as healthy as possible and revert any postural damage i have done in the past
I’m middle eastern, my mom is from The Levant/ Mediterranean countries and my dad is from Yemen. My mom’s side of the family practically worship Eurocentric beauty standards (blue eyes, white pale skin, blonde hair, straight hair) and my dad’s side of the family prefer tanner skin (but not *too* dark) light brown eyes and light brown hair. Basically, the lighter your features are, the more beautiful you’re considered. It sucks because I’m pale in “gulf Arab” standards and I get teased for it but when I go to, let’s say, jordan, I get called too dark?
In my opinion, no country is as race or color obsessed as the US. I'm Persian but I have light hair and green eyes and for some reason, people here find that surprising and even praise me for it lmao. Everyone here is obsessed with categorizing themselves and others into "us vs. them". It's exhausting.
@THAT GOES WHERE?!? I don't know about Japan, but South America and India are definitely colorist. The difference is that they're more homogeneous societies so I doubt their race issues are comparable to those in the US.
THAT GOES WHERE?!? You should take a look at Korea then, who’re even more obsessed with white skin along with their plastic surgery craze in order look the same.
@@katitadeb While a handful of white koreaboos like to LARP as fake Asians online, Asians as a collective are FAR more obsessed with European features and do way more to imitate them than Europeans do with Asian features. It's not even close.
straight hair considered beautiful is eurocentric standard?? it was only 90-00s trend, before and after that period there's always been expectation to style your hair in some way. it's like you unconsciously feel that pressure and guilt and shame for your natural hair. only asians have that voluminous thick straight hair, europeans usually thin-haired, especially blondes
In my society light skin and coloured eyes seems to be considered a "good" feature in women and although they're a pretty common features, i can't help but wonder, why? 🤔
I study international relations in college and we call it neocolonialism, the eurocentric imposition on other cultures through influence and power. I'm from Brazil and I can testify that everything he said in this video about Brazilian beauty is true.
I support you on that, as a brazillian I do think people have this vision, even though I’ve only dated morenas. White skin do gives you props here, but I don’t know how much more. People with brownish color seems to be more acceptable than black skin color though :( The thing is, you can’t judge unless you’re that person
@@Purwapada it's not just that, cause Europe hasn't been the center of developed technology since WW1, other countries ascended in that area, like USA, Japan, Corea and others. The eurocentrism still stands due to past colonization and the fact that their social influence is still very strong. In college we still study european thinkers from 500 years ago, like Smith, Marx, Rousseau, Maquiavel, etc.
How can you say the 'average" white woman is a attractive fashion model ? The average white woman doesn't look like fashion models. The average woman of any race is not beautiful. Average means ordinary not ugly but not beautiful.
cheong728 he mean that a fashion model that is white can look like anything. doesn’t matter bc she is white and “pretty”. whereas ppl from other races have to be extremely beautiful and/or exotic looking in order to get the part
I enjoyed your video, but not all europeans have blonde hair and blue eyes, their are many europeans with Hazel eyes/brown-eyes/green eyes and dark brown hair. The whole blonde hair and blue eyes thing came from Hitler, who wanted germans to be on his side, as most germans had that look. However if you look at other European countries like France, Italy, Spain, and Serbia their are many people with dark brown hair and hazel eyes. Eurocentric beauty doesn't necessarily mean blonde hair and blue eyes only 30% of Europe has blonde hair and blue eyes. Also having straight hair doesn't mean you look more white, as their are many non-white countries that have straight hair, and then some European people can have curly hair ranging from blonde to black. I am also not dissing, I am just stating a fact, as the video makes a point on how Eurocentric beauty has influenced many people to change their looks, when we should accept all races and diversity. Their was many factual information, but you made it seem that white people can only have blonde hair and blue eyes, when I have family members who are blonde hair and blue eyes, and then I have wavy-curly dark brown hair and hazel brown eyes, then I have family members with dark hair, olive skin, and light eyes, and then I have family members with dark hair, brown eyes, and olive skin, and then I have a red head aunt, and we are all the same race. White people don't just have blonde hair and blue eyes, as the definition of a white person is anyone who is European or jewish. I hope this comment does not offend, and if I got it wrong that's not what you were implying then I deeply apologize.
The outside world treats Europe as one huge country, but its actually bunch of many different countries/cultures and each has their own specific beauty standards.
I think he may have been referring to blonde hair and blue eyes because most Europeans value those features. I know this is anecdotal, but my friend who has blonde hair and blue eyes visited Spain and everyone there was obsessed with her blonde hair and blue eyes. It’s just a Eurocentric beauty standard, and probably more so because it is rare, even in Europeans.
That combo is a very rare trait even for Europe but I also think it’s that those light features are perceived as very feminine on a woman because they’re really more coveted on women than men. I think it’s that combo of rare and light that can make it seem like that’s the standard.
Also I think this is all subjective it self as some will like blondes, some will like brunettes, some will like dark skin, some will like light skin. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Remember your beautiful in each way.
In a global world, with changing power dynamics, hasn't this changed a bit? Thinking of big booties, plump lips, dark eyes (i.e. Kylie Jenner), darker skin tone, that isn't considered caucasian. To me it feels like the ideal is some kind of rootless exoticism, a hotchpotch of traits common in different cultures.
Great content. I would just like to clarify the clarification. Dr. Huberta Jackson-Lowman in her book "Afrikan American Women: Living at the Crossroads of Race, Gender, Class, and Culture" talks about blacks sold as slaves in the Americas and not about Afrikaners. She consciously chose to write African with K certainly for reasons clarified in some of her studies.
My lifelong pet peeve is meeting people for the first time and then them asking where I'm from because of my nose and skin color. Strangers have literally come up to me just to say that I look like I'm from somewhere else (in a whole foods). "You look like you're Perisian/Pakistani/Jewish/Italian/Indian/Native American" never accurately guessing Mexican. It comes off as "You look like one of them, outsider". It's been a lifetime of people othering me. Imagine the rest of the world dealing with the same thing.
Just 3 things that define beauty in real life health/fertility 2 common/ordinary as how accustomed you are to certain characteristics 3 how much that appearance represents status.
if we have eurocentric beauty standards, why doesn't everyone want pink skin and thin lips. also how is being thin a european thing? and isn't the fascination with blonde hair and blue eyes about the rarity of it or the youth it implies, because babies have blue eyes and even people with naturally blonde hair get darker hair as they age. even in europe it's not that common among adults to have golden blonde hair and hair bleaching has been around for a long time.
@bunny boo are you sure skin bleaching has to do with a european beauty standard though? or is it more about rarity again? Asians tan easily, black people are obviously dark so maybe they want to be lighter because it's harder to obtain and therefore valued? back when white people worked outside in the fields etc they tried to be whiter too! but nowadays they want to be tan... also, I think the skin bleaching also has a lot to do with making your skin tone more even, getting rid of dark spots. skin tans very uneavenly, you get sun spots, all kinds of uneaven pigmentation...
jwider96 “most” is wrong “as tanned as possible” is also wrong. Just because such people are present doesn’t mean that’s what the majority want. So check yourself before spewing bs.
I don't get this thing with youth, how is it attractive to have an eye and hair color correlated with being a baby/young child since it signals immaturity and thus infertility ? The platinum blond hair are seen mostly in babies, then when people become teenagers so fertile usually the hair darkens so it seems more logical to prefer a darker hair.
This comment is very intimate, but I think this is the space to express how important this issue is: I really have a problem with this, and I don't want to sound dramatic, but it really has ruined my sexuality, I don't know for how long. So I consider myself as bisexual, always been more attracted to men (but not at the same time, I'll explain that later). I openly admit that I am an excessively lustful man (usually it's normal in men to be lustful), that's why the media influenced my sexuality so much. But I never understood why even if I really like men I wasn't (and still am not) attracted at all to the men in my country. I barely was interested in any, I usually am more attracted to woman when It comes to people I know and I've seen in person. And I didn't understand the reason until I found out about eurocentrism. I am only (I'd say mostly, but the difference is huge) attracted to white men (specially gingers, sadly, it's a fetish, I'm sorry), with women I am more opened, but I don't deny I also have the same problem, just not as strong as with men. And in my country it's more common to find women with white features/paler skin, than man. That's why I'm usually more attracted to women I real life. So when I think I'm sexually attracted to men, I'm always referring to the white men (I feel like shit saying it). People from my country has more native indigenous features and african features. It's more usual to find people with short height, our eyes and skin are usually dark (I've always preferred dark eyes and hair over light tho). I want to clarify that I've never found my racial features and the common racial features from my country ugly, I don't know if it's because I'm like that (Cause I'm gorgeous), but indigenous and african features have always been beautiful in my opinion. Sometimes I even think we're prettier than many white people tho. But sadly, it has never been my preference in a point that I really don't feel sexually attracted to those features at all. (And that's very fucked up!) And even if I keep saying I'm bisexual (I don't doubt it, but sexuality is complex), I have a huge priority on white men, it's an excessive whim, and it's frustrating. I hate talking about my sexuality with people because of that, it's not only complex, it's also very racist. And as I'm dark skinned I sound stupid because "dark skinned people only appeal to dark skinned people". So that means that if I have a crush on a white person I'm not worthy of them... Ok. I don't know, I have tried to change that, but I've been with that issue for 10 years, practically since I started exploring my sexuality, so I wasn't concious of that for many years. Trying to change it doesn't work because it's like forcing me to change what I love just because I feel guilt, pitty and shame of myself. But I absolutely know that I'm stupid, let's say that stupidity doesn't change that easily. Also what bothers me the most is that all my friends express how they prefer white people over other races with no shame, saying that it's their personal preference and all that bullshit I'm saying right now. And I always want to call them out, but how am I supposed to do it knowing I'm being a total hypocrite? I really want to sound like I'm the victim but I'm not a victim... I guess, because nobody ordered me to like what I like, right?
Being thin and tall is actually pretty practical for Stewardesses. They need to easily glide between the narrow walkways and easily reach overhead luggage. They probably aren’t screening people off their face, faces just tend to look better on people who are thin. If it was about attractiveness we’d also see a lot of voluptuous women or good looking shorter women, but instead they all fit the tall and slender archetype.
Awesome video. Very informative and well explained. This is an issue that I see very prevalent in many cultures, but it’s so deeply rooted that most people don’t realize it.
In Turkey a lot of women dye their hair to blond and wear contacts to look more European and the saddest part is nobody realizes how we are affected by someone else's beauty standards. I hope someday we will see our natural and diverse beauty.
I dont think it is Europeans' fault. In Turkey it is Turkish men's beauty standarts, not somebody else's. Most(or many) Turkish women dont adore blond hair or coloured eyes like men do.
How do you get from a dude who just talks about looks to deep philosophical teacher I'm glad I found you man thanks this video is what I needed to be my self again thanks
Math was found in many cultures including African and Asian cultures. It's just that Europeans are very self-centered and braggadocios and take ownership of everything and the sheeple does not question it.
It is very interesting and amazing, but at the same time depressing knowing new reasons why I'm not considered an attractive male by the opposite sex. I already had a clue when I was very young, but your videos are detailed on the answers, please keep this series going!
i just wanted to point out that almost all the features that make you attractive, you can change: fit, muscely body, straight white teeth, clear skin, nice fitting clothes, properly trimmed beard and hair, nice smell and good posture. all of that is changeable. just a matter of work, time, will and money. no matter how freaking ugly and gross you look now, you can become attractive if you want to. attractive in general, not attractive compared to a high fashion model, obviously. but attractive in general is more than enough.
They aren't saying only European people are thin, they are saying Europeans value it for beauty. In many cultures, especially African ones, someone with a drastic hip to waist ratio is considered more beautiful than a skinny curveless one.
@@Keke-oh6zd Except thinness has NOTHING to do with hip to waist ratio, most women black or white don't gain weight on their hips so much that they keep their hip or waist ratio.
Phenotype comes before objective attractiveness for MOST PEOPLE ( if you’re way above average it’s not AS big of a deal ) . If someone is not “your type” you’d require them to be significantly more attractive than someone who is “your type” to give them a chance . In a lot of cases they might still pick the person who is “their type” . It’s all about “knowing your customer” . An above average African American will struggle more with “picking up” girls at a country music concert than he would at a Rap concert . The reverse would also be true for a Caucasian .
Ash Lynx I’m saying the difference between killing children for having blue eyes compared to making them feel less “beautiful” is a lot worse, and the way Ya Ok phrased it, they seem to disagree lol
Skin lightening was practiced in many cultures around the world far before European colonizers ever got their hands on them. Also, "european" is just too broad of a term to really be useful in describing anything. Spain is part of Europe, but people would call them Hispanic, not white. And exactly how far southeast do you take Europe, because there are some pretty brown looking people the further southeast you go. Equating Europe to whiteness is like equating the US to whiteness. It's far too diverse to be so. It's like saying everyone that lives in Asia is Asian. Mmmm, no, not exactly. Russia is in Asia, as is India and Japan, and they're not exactly triplets. If you wanna say Caucasian characteristics, then do so, but don't lump a whole continent together.
The Spanish and Portuguese are considered white, by the logic that a European is white. Whiteness in essence is a meaningless term though because whiteness has changed.
@@nik8099 whiteness is a ridiculously useless term. People say that a movie with all white people, even from all different countries, isn't diverse. But a movie with all black people is diverse, cuz they're from all different African countries. Like wtf. Miss me with that hypocritical shit. I'm just tired of the logic of Europe is white, Africa is black, south America is Hispanic, north America is white, Asia is Asian (stereotypical east Asian). Literally none of it is true or logical, but people are naturally stupid.
If an east asian person wants to have big eyes (double eylid with no epicanthal fold), why is the stereotypical accusation that they want to look european when there are way more south Asian and black people in the world, and they also those type of eyes? Is this itself racism?
Coz they want to have white skin, high nose along with almond eyes with double eyelid, so that's why it seems like that. Have u ever seen them wanting to have dark or tanned skin?
@@truthseeker8324 the fair skin doesnt come from europe, though. Its been preferred by Asians for many years now, and when an asian person had loght skin, ot meant that theyre wealthy since they dont have to spend their whole day working outside with no sun protection.
@@truthseeker8324 white skin has been preferred before asians even knew about the existence of Europeans lol. Get down from your high horse. Also asians naturally have almond eyes. Its white people who draw their eyeliners up in a cat eye to create an almond effect lmfao. And yes I have seen them want tan skin in the early 2000s because for a while that was the trend.
@@truthseeker8324 everything was good until you mentioned almond eyes and white skin. Majority of east asians are born with fair skin, and almond eyes originated from them and white people are the ones copying it🙄
@@noscope4234 okay if majority of them as u saud are really born with white skin then what's the point of having lightening ingredient in almost all of their skin care products? Soaps, creams, facewash etc
People are attracted to familiarity and white people are the most familiar race to everyone--for most poc beside their own race, they're the most familiar with white people. I think most of achieving beauty is people trying to neutralized their appearance, and people do so by comparing themselves to both their own race and white people, who are also considered in poc's mind when it comes to the concept of beauty due to white people's influence and our familiarity to them. I can personally attest to this because for awhile only asian and white people were the people I had in mind for who I found beautiful until I became more familiar with black beauty, and I literally see the change of this because I have a blog that document aesthetics I like and up until early 2010s, most of the photos of people were pretty asians and pretty white people with softer features. In the last several years and currently, I gotten more familiar with black features and I find myself posting and reblogging photos of black people more than white people. I also genuinely consider Rihanna to be one of the most beautiful person in the world. I see this change in many blogs as well, in the early 2010s it was a bunch of skinny white teens showing up and getting viral for their looks. But now I see a lot of asians getting attention for their beauty due to the influence of kpop (honestly) and black people due to the power of representation and how they have dominated the music industry. But Eurocentricism is so strong that the average white person is considered beautiful and somehow a lot of people believe white people have the neutral face, when they also have ethnic features that doesn't fit most beauty standard such as their large noses and lack of lips. Full lips in particular is a common feature among poc yet for so long they just get picked on for their ethnic features while people never point out white people's lack of lips..until very recently. I think people also confused striking with beautiful. A person with more definition and contrast will tend to stand out more. Most people seem to notice a person's coloring first as well, and lighter colors and contrasting colors stand out more than darker colors and homogeneous colors. I think in the last few decade it's movies that had more influence than the fashion industry. The 90s was the last decade that actually had supermodels and in the 90s actresses also started taking models places on fashion magazines. In recent years, social media influencers had some influence as well but they're still seen as less than to Hollywood actresses. I don't think it's the fashion industry that have dictate the beauty standard in modern times.
@JessikaEmerald Rihanna is hardly mixed. She's 75% black with a full black mom and a mixed dad. A vice versa is Halsey who is 75% white with a full white mom and mixed dad yet she does not look mixed and is very passing for what she's mainly consist of, white. No white person has rihanna's face, especially not with that nose and lips of hers. First people say Naomi Campbell looks white, now it's Rihanna. I didn't know white people look black and own all types of facial features.
This is right to a fault. A lot of asian countries do want to be whiter, have double eyelids and overall just more “European faces” but most of the time it is not because they wish to look European, it’s because that has been their beauty ideal for centuries before white invasions. Having whiter skin has always been an ideal in asian cultures due to it being associated with not having to do any labor outside, and double eyelids are simply because they wish to have “larger eyes”, not due to any European influence. There are many East Asians who were naturally born with double eyelids, so it was not something they discovered to exist after coming in contact with Europeans. Not everything is about us
I’m a mix of Nordic and Mediterranean Europeans. I always found the Mediterranean or Latin Europeans gorgeous! They have like a mix of different ethnicities live the black hair and olive skin Even when j grew up in a time where blonde hair and blue eyes reigned !
I'm a (mostly) white-passing half-Black person who has been facing Racial Imposter Syndrome for many years now, and I did everything I could to try and connect with the black side of my identity. I've cherished my hair as being the "only" connecter to that side of me, and was slightly sad that I didn't look "Black enough" and would jump for joy when people said that I do, in fact, look like my Black dad. I actively wanted to look more like my full racial identity. And yet... I would look in the mirror and see my face shape, my nose, the parts of me that, in hindsight, are clearly from my Black dad, and I would call those features "ugly." I would think that they made me look "unattractive" and "weird." I hated those parts of my face for years and years, and they were the main causes of my body image issues. But earlier today, I was made aware of how some of these facial features are actually ETHNIC facial features. And I realized how many of them applied to me and my "ugly" nose. So I took a pic of my face, and began comparing it to images of folks with certain ethnic features common in African Americans. And I realized: I do look Black. It was both a wonderful and heartbreaking realization to have. To realize that I DO actually look a lot like my dad, that I'm not an imposter, but also that I've been hating the parts of me that MAKE ME LOOK BLACK. It hurt so much to realize the types of internalized racism I was hurling at myself without even knowing it. And I'm honestly kinda mad about it. Mad that society taught me to believe that having a thin, pointy nose was the "normal" nose, and that mine was "weird" when it wasn't. Mad that I had been taught to hate the parts of my body that I wanted to love, the parts that connected me to my ethnicity and family. Mad that the world tells other people those things too. But we aren't weird looking. We aren't ugly. We just aren't "Pure White TM" And we shouldn't have to have our ethnic features be seen as flaws when they aren't. Because Euro-centric features shouldn't be the ideal. Maybe, in all honesty, there shouldn't be an ideal at all.
@@QOVESStudio in that case it's even more funnier lol, it's showing clear anti-European bias from the author What I meant to say is that just like he says Europeans stole from the Persians the same way he could also say the Persians stole from the Indians and make a book about the 'Persocentric outlook of Mathematicians' but that wouldn't sell I guess
@@topg2820 ?! heh. That would make no sense. The book is not about who stole from whom. You know a lot of famous persian or indian inventers? No? Yeah. thats what the book is tryna telling you.
@@reflectlight1368 i dont think you got my point, I was talking about how the Arabic numerals which the whole world uses are actually Indian/Hindu numerals (bet you didn't know this), the Arabs still call their numbers Rakhm Al-Hind, the Europeans call it Arabic numerals because they got it from them I'm not disregarding Indian, Persian, Chinese, etc. mathematicians (more power to them tbh they had written at a time when there wasn't any printing press), what I'm saying is that the book is clearly biased trying to portray an Anti-European sentiment to Mathematics which shouldn't be the case , maths is maths, whether an Irish or a Kenyan invented something it shouldn't matter, it's education not politics My original comment was about the weirdly ambiguous broad groups which Qoves said are surprisingly the actual chapters of the book, What if you are a Croatian (muslim) mathematician? What if you are an Indian origin mathematician with an EU passport? Grouping of random sections like Indian, Muslim, Latino etc. is usually done while appeasing minority politics by presenting Anti-European propaganda aka 'white man bad', I'm not even joking the book literally has "Non-European" in its title Also your point about not knowing Persian or Indian inventors, ofcourse I'd know them if they invented something of importance, when you go to buy a Japanese car do you call it 'Non-European' car? Also did you notice I said Persian mathematician instead of Muslim mathematician, try figuring out why :)
Abhinay Raikar I’m confused about what you’re saying. He explain in the video why most people do not know of persian or Indian inventors because their work is not given credit in the same way European inventors are. And the reason for using words like “non European” is because, I assume, the book is trying to go against eurocentrism. If you are a black person, you would probably talk about racism by using phrases such as “white isn’t superior” and “black lives matter” because of the situation. So, I don’t understand how that’s anti European propaganda. Nobody’s turning against Europeans, just trying to change the European centrist views most people hold. Also, what do you mean when you say “I said persian mathematician instead of Muslim mathematician” because not every persian is Muslim (I’m persian, nobody in my familial history is Muslim)
@@alexandraxox exactly, you understood why I was being specific saying Persian, because the author is being racist against Europeans grouping all the others as a group against the Europeans saying their achievements don't matter, saying "white isn't superior" is racist too just imagine how people would protest if there was book saying "non-Persian roots of Mathematics" with chapters involving French, German, English mathematicians, my gripe is with the author for promoting propaganda not Qoves for saying they need to get more recognition, if he was just plainly displaying the accomplishments of Persian mathematicians he wouldn't make it political by saying Muslim, if someone from Iraq invents something that doesn't mean all the other people who he has never met from Indonesia, Morocco, Bangladesh, Croatia also have hand in the credit just because they are muslims, religion has nothing to do with it Also I've even said in my previous comment that there is no prejudice against other inventors, if they discover something they WILL be credited, if they don't then no credit ofcourse, most of the modern mathematics IS developed by Europeans or Americans because most of the learned move to America hence why history gives them credit, mistakes do happen if they have been denied credits they should be given no doubt but without any political bias Also are you a Parsi/Zoroastrian btw? How's the situation in Iran? I've heard Zoroastrians get discriminated for following their own pagan religion, really unfortunate, how do your relatives survive in this environment? Please never give up your Paganism, always strive to keep it alive
When you mentioned the name "Guillermo Prieto", it's evident you laughed because you couldn't pronounce the name correctly. But "prieto" happens to mean, in Spanish, being dark-skinned but it is used in a pretty insulting way. So it might come across as if you were mocking about it. Not that it was intentional but coincidental considering the topic of the video.
These standards must have missed me because I never thought European features are attractive, and the most attractive person I ever saw was a black woman.
I somehow agree but high fashion is another planet. They don't value beauty. They value super skinny and tall people. If you see the face of the models on the runway nowadays, you'd be wondering how they're called models. If course there are exceptions, but they are rarity.
Interestingly enough though, there is a certain population within the indo-european phenotype who are considered beautiful. We have many ethnic Norwegian girls and boys here that really don't fit in with that standard.
Oh, I remember some American friend who went to visit the Nordic countries and he was shocked how unattractive the population is. But I guess stories sell xD
This video contradicts itself. You say there are universal standards of beauty and European ones. And then you go on to conflate the two and blame Western Media on the whole thing.
****The caucasian look, particularly with light skin, hair, and eyes has been perceived in many cultures as being more beautiful and desirable. Examples can be seen in the Nordic or Scandinavian societies (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland). Their people are just pretty, there's no denying that. In an attempt to achieve that look, we see Asian (Oriental) women getting plastic surgery on their eyes to give them a more European look. We see skin bleaching in all black countries like Jamaica, for instance. Like it or not, it's just a reality.
nicole you should be able to do whatever makes you feel better about yourself. ❤️ just as long as you remember that your ethnic background is amazing & im sure your ethnic nose still makes you beautiful. :)
Good lord! The other day I made a video on beauty standards for curvy girls and now I come across this video. What I find the most intriguing is the fact that not one beauty trend magnifies itself. It is almost as though all the different beauty standards of the past and present, trending or not are in competition with each other. The curvy girls want to compete with the skinny ones, innately want to be thin. Thin, not so curvy one's are trying all sorts of surgeries to look, what's the word - thicc? Fair women want a fake tan and dark women keep living in a world that apparently doesn't appreciate the for who they are. I mean, look at this messed up competition? Someone once told me that women are very competitive. But now I feel as though women are made to feel competitive in such areas, so they can waste their time delving on unnecessary, shallow things instead of focusing on their potential to lead, do well in politics, architecture, science, commerce, inventions, philosophy etc. I think that these standards are a patriarchal construct to tangle us in a ruckus that would not even matter. We must understand how patriarchy shapes culture and rise above it.
As a brazilian, I totally agreed with what you've said. The european features are more praised instead of the skin color itself. In fact, the tanned look is extremely well perceived here, it gives that beach vibe.
Foi exatamente o que ele falou, enquanto na Índia são famosos os cremes clareadores de pele, aqui são as rinoplastias e afins
Yet still what makes Brazilian people so attractive is the mix of races. You have very attractive people in your country!
Same as in Mexico
@@MrCheesecake1928 yup, cuz being mixed automatically makes you attractive. Lol.
Same in the Caribbean
Glad I went natural and tried to stop fitting in, used to wear blue contacts and straighten my hair and almost bleached my skin, now I love myself for who I am. Sad this is still a thing smh
As an Spaniard European, girl, rock it, because you guys are gorgeous 💘
Had a phase like that myself as a middle eastern male growing up in a nordic country. Glad that phase is long gone. Couldn't be more comfortable in my own skin as I am now.
PS: african hair is the best hair out there and african girls look super nice with their natural hair texture 😍😍
Thefire I get that you’re feeling comfortable in your own skin now and that’s great but no need to think you’re suddenly better/have the best xyz things
Brendons Forehead that’s his opinion and I actually agree w his opinion. No need to get mad over it
L K no ones mad tho and that was just my opinion as well so wdym?
I'm black and I used to want to be light skinned so bad, but it was sad how it was my own family members who praised lighter skin as better and more attractive.
www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/f9ati8/comment/fivvffk
I saw this on reddit a couple days ago. I went to a diverse high school and I never understood why African Americans would stereotype themselves by color.
@@AvengeHergears just read the post. The reason why we have to distinguish our selves is because the experience and treatment one may receive can be linked to the lightness of darkness of ones skin. So even when we all want to unify we can see that lighter skinned people will get better treatment which will alienate them from the rest of the race.
Im Indian and I felt the same way
It’s so deep rooted too:(
But you do understand why, don't you? So, change that with your own children, instead of perpetuating it. That's just one of the many things we can do.
I remember during Sophmore year of high school wanting to look like a white boy. Glad I'm outta that phase and genuinely like the way I look now.
I hate going to an all white high school because my boyfriend is a person of color. Everyone outside of my high school thinks he’s gorgeous (as do I) but none of my white friends care for his appearance because he’s not white. Sometimes it takes getting out of that environment to realize you’re actually good looking, but just not white
@@alexandraxox I felt like that in college. I went to a majority white high school and while I was awkward and didn't have the best social skills I wasn't this outcast. Never really got any attention but when I got to college I actually started getting attention. My college had much more ethnicities.
@@boxtobox10o it's still this way except black men have joined the "pretty boy", "hot" squad or whatever you wanna call it. I would say it's because of rap becoming the most popular genre in America and with the rise of stars like Michael b Jordan, Idris Elba, Chadwick Boseman. It'll take some time for Asians of all geographic regions to enter the limelight.
Shehryar Ali Eurocentric beauty standard is in every culture because they are the most attractive so I don’t blame you
@@temposetter1091 yeah but in general most Asians do not fit the pretty boy aesthetic. Maybe as kpop grows they might. Right now, average Asian men have it rough.
Man Latinamerica is way too rooted with racism (and classism) towards dark and brown skinned people. If you watch any kind of show from whichever country, almost all the celebrities are white, but common people on the streets don't look like that (maybe some, but it's not the avarage person)
Or when a child turns out to be dark they always say "pobrecito es negro/moreno" as if being darker is ugly
Sad but true
I agree. I'm Argentinian, and here (or at least the area that I live in) I mostly see more European looking people, including myself. As my uncle said, "Tans, or darker skin tones, are only seen as attractive if a white person has them"
Jass P people like skin colours and features they have themselves.
@@user-mz6lw2qk2b I wish! As a dark-skinned person in Latin America I spend my whole childhood feeling inferior because of it. I'm not proud of that, but that is what was taught to us from the beginning, even if it's through unconscious behaviors. Once an adult you realize stuff like that doesn't matter, but sadly no: most of us were made to believe fair skin is the most beautiful... and had to LEARN to see the beauty of darker tones (which ARE beautiful, we are just taught otherwise).
You're right when it comes to high fashion non-white models picking only the models who are the extreme of their race. You never see just a regular brown skinned black model...they are ALWAYS the darkens of the dark...midnight blue black with small European noses and very full lips.
Even with Winnie...she's techiqually a brown skinned black woman, but she has a genetic disorder so again she's an extreme of our race.
I've never seen just the average brown skinned black woman who is a super model.
Not sure how young you are but in the 90s there were TONS of dark and brown skinned models. For instance :Kiara Kabukuru, Anansa Johnson, Beverley Johnson, Naomi Campbell, Lana Ogilvie,Roshumba,Arlenis Sosa, Beverley Peele, the list goes on. The modelling industry was way more diverse in the 90s than it is now.
PrincessLeah187 xx age has nothing to do witj what I said.
I said when it comes to the high end fashion industry they will only pick out the most extreme of minorities looks. They will pick the tallest, darkest, bald headed model from Africa that they can find.
I remember clearly the 80's and 90's and the fashion industry is getting worse when it comes to picking these extremes in models.
Jasmine be average people are no models?
PrincessLeah187 xx exactly tf
Doesn’t that count for every race in modelling, the white models have very exaggerated sharp noses and eyeshapes, usually are as pale as possible. I agree there could be more diversity but ofc the high fashion models are going to be extremes, that’s the point.
I went to a school with a minority of white people, most of the students were Asian, mainly Indian, or black. Growing up my favourite Barbie was a black ballerina with a purple dress and really curly hair with caramel highlights, I thought she was so beautiful and I painted her nails gold with a toothpick and carried her around. I guess it makes sense based on the school I went to, white wasn’t as much the default to me because as a child your school environment is like your whole world.
Sounds like Trinidad and Tobago. White people are the minority
Doesnt make sense cause im arab we went to school where there werent any whites yet everyones definition of beauty was white blond blue eyes
@@mIsErIeSandDrAmA theres a thing called media. We have media here too but in Trinidad African diaspora wanted to look mixed. We wanted curly hair and light brown skin but no one i knew wanted to be blonde and blue eyes because mixed people (african + white) were treated better so the goal is to look mixed. Trinidad indian diaspora on the other hand want to look blue eye/blonde hair since their phenotype is already closer to typical european (eg: straight hair) but they are still dark haired, eyed and skinned so they try to get closer to European in their own way. Its really all colonization's fault
Same in the sense of not having a white beauty standard while growing up. Dispite live in the US and going to all white schools. There's a theory about first introduction that basically states that the first images that a child associates with beauty, set their beauty standard.
@@stomio6491 Not really, just depends on where you live honestly
I think the beauty standard seems to be merging into this exotic 'ambiguous' look.
Nader Abed I agree
kinG iZZy most mixed people look like white people who can tan easily.
Jeremy Jones ok boomer
@kinG iZZy And African, Middle eastern, Indian, and Asian.
Jeremy Jones Many people prefer the exotic ambiguous look over the cold icy white look.
Colorism is strong in India but a lot of evidence says it preceded European colonialism. For example skin shade has strong correlation to caste and the Europeans simply weren't in India long enough to create that trend. Colorism might have roots in migration/invasion from the northwest, places like Persia, long before the Euopeans.
N Allanson Yeah, colourism was pretty common in many cultures including European ones even before colonialism and globalisation
I'd argue that colorism and racism coincide and feed off of eachother in that colorism favors lighter skin, as does the racism often perpetuated through eurocentrism- especially in today's day and age.
Yea I think the arians conquered first and civilized it
@@forteeve3355 Which is why I wish I was darker. Im a bit ashamed to have light skin.
Asian countries are the same before European contact. Darker skin meant being a worker and white skin meant wealth and beauty.
I’m honestly so bitter about how scientific discoveries are portrayed as if it’s all European, not that they didn’t contribute at all but they were pretty late to the party, especially in mathematics
I dont really understand what exactly you mean, could you perhaps give me an example?
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yes well, who discovered gravity, invented the computer, discovered that E = mc2 etc.
@@user-eu8su7ss5x I think what's funny is so many white people have recessed faces. Even in those modeling shots they just angle or edit to make the chin/jaw/maxilla stronger than it really is. I guess it's really a rarity. But I notice that some Asians and Latinos have stronger bone structure compared to the rest. I don't think this has to do with race though, it probably comes from tribe and genetics.
@@islamisthetruth3402 so true. I really hate when people lump the entire continent together as if we're one unified force. Italians and Norwegians are so diametrically opposite to each other they don't really have much in common.
ʀɪᴄᴇ ᴄᴀᴋᴇ Y is your pfp black if you don’t like black people.
We should all love the skin we’re born in whilst cherishing the ones that we aren’t
Woo yes, In Europe, white people tan their skin, while people in Asia, for example (who tend to have darker skin) bleach their skin. It's illogical but that's how the cosmetics industry makes money. Every skin tone is beautiful
That was said perfectly
No.
I hate how brutally honest you are. I feel so shitty after watching your videos but I can't stop since they're so well made and entertaining.
I always believed everyone was subconsciously racist. Now it makes sense with this evidence 🤣
There is nothing wrong with being a Racist if it means loving your own people
IDK why people assume if you love your own people that means you automatically hate people of other Races
Loving your Race =/= Hating other Races, Nature herself is racist
ʀɪᴄᴇ ᴄᴀᴋᴇ I remember I got ridiculed by a couple of women because I hadn’t mentioned the black men in a Love Island video. I was just like “But I didn’t mention any Latino or oriental men either”. But yeah I do believe a white inferiority complex is in a lot of Asians. And I have no idea why it’s there and why I feel it at times
Right 😂😂
@@topg2820 racism isn't loving your own race
@@topg2820 Racism does not mean loving your own race. Racism means hating a race or your even your own race.
why tf do pple try to always diminish racial struggles, like "Let's not bring race into this" wtf, my ethnicity has literally affected my life and shaped some of my insecurities, so please do talk more abt these issues
No, let's not.
Because not everything is about race
@@BitchChill but people obviously have racial and ethnic preferences when it comes to what they find attractive. So “NoT eVeRyThInG iS AbOuT RaCE!” Doesnt apply here because sure, not everything is about race but you cant just throw that phrase around whenever you dont want to talk about race when race has clearly played a role in what is being talked about.
@@Blub2cool Everything still isn't about race. Maybe you're just an ugly ass nigga, and want to blame it on "Muh Eurocentrism!"
@@BitchChill but a lot of it is. are you white or not?
I can't focus on what the video is saying. Your voice is too beautiful
deadly dimitar ahahahahahahahahahahahahaihateuuu
Honestly 😭 and his little laugh
@@deadlydimitarr I sense some jealousy ☺
@majestic movement then you should make a vid and let us decide
@@Lana-me5qy and the little nasalities here and there aw
As someone who is asian living in England, I don’t know whether I should love tanned or fair skin. In England everyone praises my tanned skin, when I travel to my home country I get told I’m too tanned... some days I’ll fake tan, some days I’ll use lighter foundation.
That's a good point, many people in North America like and prefer the tanned look, compared to certain asian countries where people who have a good tan try to appear more pale by applying product etc.
undying dimitar I don’t like how my body’s skin color doesn’t match my face and arms color bc it’s just so noticeable on me😭
My problem is more that my actual skin hue isn't nice together with many of my favourite colours haha. I did get a cream that "dyed" my skin once though. I'll use it when I want to wear those clothes haha
Hahahaha
you don't have to follow the beauty standards of either country. it's okay to own what you have with pride and without reservations. let your skin be skin, tan or white.
I find it sad to process that this is the video that got very little views compared to others. 100k or 200k or even 300k people would rather hear about plastic surgery, photoshop, and celebs (which you do a phenomenal job of explaining nonetheless. This not meant to take away from your work in any way. ) rather than real life dehumanization and oppression towards our fellow human, the root of segregation, and how years of Eurocentric norms have brainwashing those who do/don't naturally conform.
I feel like a huge majority of this video attracts people who've actually been through this and repels those who haven't (white guilt maybe? Guilt for benefitting from this? Or maybe just hearing about it make them uncomfortable.) My friend is a very white looking Hispanic girl although I'm sure she part white somewhere-- any time I bring up something similar like this or how it affected me, she subtly shuts me down. Until 2 minutes later I wonder why the conversation is over and realized what she did. Me-- trying to be the good friend, doesn't want to bring it up again because it clearly doesn't affect her and makes her uncomfortable.
Or another very lighter skinned hispanic girl and I were debating what colorism is and she said it affects lighter skin people too. I had to face palm. Telling me I was somehow misrepresenting black people and honestly I think I need new friends.
the topic probably makes them uncomfortable so they avoid it
@@3oxiarchi correct nobody wants to face the truth
Why do you want us to feel guilty for living in our own world where we are ideal - i get minorities in Western countries having issues with representation, but we have people from Asia, Africa demanding "vetter" representation in western media which is mind blowing, why would your identity have issues for being not represented in media of countries you dont even live in -like Asians complaining model Vogue posted dosent look "average cute Asian" ok so dont read damn Vogue, Western magazine that looks to world through Western eyes, read Asian magazines that represent you bettet - simple.
Not just that their uncomfy though def a part of it. A lot of it is because white is the standard and default and they don’t care about anything but that! They don’t admit it but look, most of them couldn’t tell you anything about black culture, black movies etc. if they see a black face on a movie or as a lead, it’s black and they don’t want to see it! They make sure their support is withdrawn. The science behind that is complex, but mostly has to do with oppression, power, self centeredness and privilege
I completely see what you're saying. I'm a black woman but lately have been avoiding videos on the topic of race and oppression, simply because I don't like being reminded of how unfair society is. However, more people should be open to watching these types of videos, at least to educate themselves.
And in a world where whiteness is the status quo, the norm and the measure of success, REPRESENTATION MEANS EVERYTHING
How is whiteness the status quo in the world? Whites only make up around 10% of the worlds population (probably lower if you discount Mixed “whites” and Non-European ethnicities). Are whites the status quo in Asia, the Middle East and Africa and their cultures? The reason you believe “whiteness” is the status quo is because you probably live in a western country where whites are the majority and you resent whites for this. You don’t have some advanced reasoning behind your beliefs, you are just resentful.
That's only because of the rise of television, media, and even globalization. It should be up to the individual races to NOT follow these standards as they have their own beauty. It's our (I'm asian) fault we normalized it as *the* standard.
@@bw655 it's because of popular media is all white people across the world from movies to tv shows to even games this had an effect on conditioning societies all over the world
If live in some western country, maybe
@@bw655 don't be stupid. You know a lot of colonization happened
3:06 is factually incorrect. I am a South African and Afrikaners are white people descended from Dutch people who speak a language extremely similar to Dutch, and this ethnic group is currently dispersed throughout South Africa and Namibia, as well as parts of Zimbabwe and Botswana.
Afrikaners are not people who were sold in slave trading to the West. Modern Americans of African descent are mainly from West Africa, the furthest south that slave traders went is modern day Angola. The study is speaking about African Americans, however uses the spelling Afrikans which is similar to the name of the language and ethnic group Afrikaans. This is where I believe the confusion stems from.
Otherwise, good video!
Am confused isnt that what the video said?
The “doll beauty experiment” has always fascinated me. I collected dolls in the past. Even in very young childhood I was always thrilled to find Black dolls or racially ambiguous looking dolls. They weren’t easy finds and many of them had features not portrayed in Caucasian looking dolls. It was like winning the jackpot whenever I found one. I had friends who collected and they were strictly Caucasian only collectors. I always thought they were weird.
I had lot sof barbies. Of course, most were blonde. But I grew tired of them (they all looked the same! Blonde and blue eyes) while I cherished the more 'exotic' dolls way more and took better care of them. This sadly also includes the dolls that looked like myself, as I am a redhead.
Yeah, most of my barbies were blonde and blue eyed because of how prevalent they were. But I loved Bratz dolls, especially Yasmin because I thought she was the most beautiful/stylish
Have you noticed that anytime a blacks person is the face of your videos that it’s at least 100k less views than the rest of your videos. Yep it’s just a common thing in the world that is super reflected on the internet. Says a lot about people and how they feel about black people.
unrelated but lord you’re beautiful 💓💞💕💗💗💖💝💞
As a European we consider Fair skin unnatractive. A golden tan is wealth for vacations and stays. It’s the light eyes and hair which is placed on a pedestal.
I am so happy I found this video. Some people insist things like colorism, featurism, and texturism does not exist. I guess you have evidence of how they exist.
Thank you for actually mentioning where you got your references from and putting the work into it. So that other people can do more research or make up their own mind.
I love how well researched these videos are, congrats on this good content!
Light skin in many countries was seen as a sign of beauty in nations like india or china before contact with the west. That standard of lighter skin being more beautiful going back thousands of years. While there may be countries that where influenced by eurocentrism, it doesn't mean all nations that came into contact with europeans see those features beautiful because of those europeans.
China always had contact with Caucasians, they werent English but they were Slavic for example, there ars Caucasian mummies in China with caucasian faces and red hair -you make it seem like Asians and the Caucasoids didnt have interaction which is untrue, Russians and other slavs have mixed with Central and East Asians for ageees
@Amazon Prime, not true. Colorism started by race mixing with other races. However, I will say that the workers worked in the sun and were darker than the more privileged that stay inside could play a part in colorism today.
@@mimisvet8671 Very true,look up the genetic mix of Koreans for instants,they have both Russian and SE Asian archaic ancestry.
Because it was colonised for a 1000 years by arabs who were fair skinned lol read the history
It's interesting how much a "tall blue-eyed blonde" obsession is an american thing. In my country naturally blonde people are often considered to be too pale, boring or even plain actually. I doubt someone like Gwyneth Paltrow or even Blake Lively would likely be crowned the high school beauty queen.
@Ophelià Rose Sweden is full of african and middle eastern migrants, I doubt that
which country are you from?
bro, it's also a filipino thing. im telling you hehehe
@@faustogiorno2300 Most likely it's a Norwegian country like Sweden. Only the cities have foreign immigrants of color. So she's probably from the countryside of her country where it's more homogenous.
@@faustogiorno2300 how does that change it?
I like how informative your videos are but I hope you realise different European countries have different beauty standards, just as different Asian or African countries do. It's not accurate to say European beauty ideals are 'blonde hair, blue eyes and white skin'. Many mediterranean and eastern europeans have tan skin and dark hair and eyes and are seen as gorgeous. Do you think European beauty standards are universal between an Albanian and a Norweigan? I think this Eurocentric beauty standard you are talking about is correct, but applies more to Western Europe and colonial European countries such as the US, Canada, Australia etc.
Thank you! I agree so much with this. Why they (meaning: mostly people from US) act like Europe is one big hive mind that has the same culture and same history including history of colonialism? There are European countries that DID NOT participate in colonialism for fuck's sake!! Platinum blonde hair, blue eyes and very light, pale skin is a very specific Nordic standard beauty which is one of variations of EU beauty standards but not THE ONLY ONE AND ONLY EUROPEAN beauty standard that exists IN ALL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. All people in Europe don't look the same just like all Africans and Asians don't, there isn't even a "European average look" just like there isn't "African average look" but there definetely are "average Macedonian look" or "average Nigerian look" etc. Many times Europeans are able to guess who is from what country by looking at their facial features - "oh she looks Ukrainian" or "is he from France? He looks French" and many times the shade of a skin of a person doesn't even play a role in this (and fashion style even less). There are many naturally pale Italian people and many naturally tanned Poles for example but you can still tell them apart. Just because you are tanned doesn't mean you have to be Italian or Greek. And obviously - which comes with all of it (different facial features, structures + history and cultures) are different beauty standards in those countries on all of our existing continents.
Aroha It’s just about power and imposing other ethnic and non-white beauty standards through media, it dose not matter to them that European beauty standards vary according to different ethnicities and nationalities
It's a < 10 minute video, he has to paint with broad strokes. He cited multiple sources and there are many more out there that say the same: the ideal is eurocentric. While there certainly are variations on the theme, he's covering what he can in the time allotted, and the "highest" ideal still tends towards blonde hair, blue eyes. Just watch news coverage. Brunettes might get some, but the majority of the stories that are picked up locally, nationally, and internationally about missing people are blonde haired, blue eyed white females, with everyone else falling somewhere off in the distance. When it's so prevalent that whom we "care" about when they go missing is affected by it that's about all she wrote.
it’s more about features, smooth hair, small button noses, thin bodies etc
wrong. People think of Eastern Europeans as blond. Scandinavian and Baltic/Slavic girls are considered to be the most beautiful because of that reason. Blonds and Gingers are the rarest type of people. Their beauty naturally should be more cherished compared to 90% of people with dark hair and dark eyes.
I know this is late haha but I have to say the quality of your videos are amazing. The fact that you dive deep into the academic and scientific literature and don’t shy away from the deep routed complexities of culture and the general understanding of things, especially in the west, is phenomenal and a breath of fresh air. There isn’t that surface level following of long held conventions, as you truly undertake in critical thinking and offer concepts that are generally difficult for people to take in. As it flies in the face of most of how we perceive the world. The fact that you are doing this on TH-cam in the current climate we are living in is not only brave, but inspiring to say the least. This video really demonstrates that and I hope you keep doing your thing. You definitely got a new subscriber! Thank you for the videos!
Humans on a whole are weird. Ariana Grande out here darkening her skin while Nicki Minaj lightened it over time too I-
It's all in an effort to look more racially ambiguous.
Big lips, tiny nose, light eyes, chiseled sharp features, tan skin, loose curly hair/lighter color hair (curly hair on lighter skin and lighter hair on tan skin) is all just a way to look mixed or "exotic"
If you asked half these girls on Instagram why they chose this look they wouldn't be able to tell you anything with much sense.
@@Des_. But you have to agree, White features are still the dominant. And it gives off the vibe that colored women cannot be beautiful unless they have white in their blood. Basically saying that the blonde haired blue eyed girl is pretty. But the black girl can only be pretty if shes biracial and one of her parents is white. Again the subliminal message that only colored people who were colonized or touched by the white hand can be recognized. It leaves other non biracial colored women feeling left out and biracial colored women feeling they are lucky for their whiteness.
@@Des_. Nicki is literally of mixed heritage being from Trinidad&Tobago,her real name is Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty and she has a full Asian Grandfather with is common on the Islands.
Nicki Minaj never “lightened” anything, ricecel. She’s always been light skinned and Ariana Grande is just an insecure Idumean (so-called White) woman and most Idumean women have low self-esteem. So I’m not surprised to see Ariana Grande hating the way she looks.
Nicki Minaj didn’t “lightened” anything, ricecel. She’s always been naturally light skinned. Ariana Grande darkening her skin is just a result of her hating her natural features as most Idumean (so-called White) women do because they’re insecure about the way they look. What you should be worried about is why Moabite and Ammonite (so-called Oriental) men so undesirable your own women don’t even want you 😂.
This channel has made me reassess how I consume “beauty” content online. I’m wondering if you could do another video discussing live video filters & editing. I used to think in all makeup pictures & videos that the models have perfectly smooth & hairless skin but now I question everything. Is it possible that videos can be edited to keep skin texture but get rid of facial hairs ie: hairs on cheeks & upper lip?
Let me answer that question for you. It's absolutely possible to do (live) videos with filters. Think about Instagram's camera, which has the options integrated in the very bottom you use to get started.
I heard it's very popular for female models/people who wear a lot of makeup to shave their face
I use to do it too for a while but honestly, it's a lot to keep up with on top of everything else
Rose Yeah, I’ve heard of dermaplaning or shaving. I love this youtuber PICTURRESQUE Regina; she does a lot of close ups and while she has very lovely skin with few blemishes I can still see the texture & hairs so I’ve become more skeptical of other makeup channels. It’s quite disillusioning to know most makeup people fake their work
Actually he did a video about video editing and live editing : th-cam.com/video/_refWNwaKF8/w-d-xo.html
And fun fact, European beauty standards were extremely Roman-centric in the past. All books I've read from the 19th century have characters that either congratulate themselves on having or lament not having roman features such as noses (in particular).
It never was as simple as in Europe has one standard and has enslaved the entire world to an affinity for that one standard.
Europeans colonized most of the continents around the world and stole other people’s work and claimed it as their own; medicine, written language, agriculture, and math were not discovered by the Europeans yet Europeans don’t want to acknowledge that fact. They imposed their own standards on the countries that they colonized while degrading the features and accomplishments of the indigenous people. Addressing what Europeans did in the past doesn’t mean that we’re blaming modern day Europeans, it means that we want to spark a change in media and try to reverse the negative effects of colonialism.
Wow 🤩 so well said!
FACTS👏👏👏👏👏👏
I don't think most honest White people will claim they invented medicine, written language, agriculture, or math, but to act as if white people have not made incredible strides in these fields would be insane. Penicillin, antibiotics, and modern sterilization techniques are all standard in medicine today. Differential & Integral Calculus, Game Theory, Geometry, Trigonometry, were all largely created by whites. Even on a more broad scale white people are responsible for: Electricity, Cars, the Internet, Skyscrapers/Buildings, the printing press, the internal combustion engine, the only race that has been to moon, and sites like TH-cam, Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, etc. Can any other race match or exceed what white people have invented?
@@zzXertz ayo hol up so yu be sayin we wuznt kangz and shiet?! Das rayciss yu ar a whyte supremazist!
Justin I’m not suggesting that white people haven’t made advancements in those fields, I’m stating that there are other people who have made advancements that aren’t accredited for their accomplishments. And to answer your *problematic* question, yes if there were was another race that colonized, enslaved, and disenfranchised most of every other race then they could have had as many accomplishments. No race is superior to any other and the fact that you insinuated that with your question is alarming.
Straight noses are not a global beauty indicator . I’m Nigerian and your nose doesn’t haven’t to be straight to be considered as beautiful it just needs to be in proportion to the rest of your face !
5 and most of western and Southern Africa (the native black population) straight noses are a European and south Asian beauty standard . Round noses and flat noses are not shunned or seen as ugly
ʀɪᴄᴇ ᴄᴀᴋᴇ did I ask you for advise on getting a more narrow nose ?
ʀɪᴄᴇ ᴄᴀᴋᴇ you’re not normal . Stop commenting at me
@@user-eu8su7ss5x how can u say if ur nose is wider than rihanna it's not normal, it all depends on ur facial features, it acc can suit someone. So shush.
ゴエモン who said anything about crooked noses ? Flat and round noses aren’t crooked most of the time
Amazing video. The narratives we're told greatly influence our perceptions, and even our identities. Plus, it's easier to push new narratives when they're just an extension of what most people already believe.
So many people have made me feel ugly and undesired because of my skin color
I remember when I was 6 I wanted a nose job so badly (because my nose is wide) I’m 14 now and even though I don’t like my nose, I think it suits my face in some way, like I grew into it
Love the sociological aspect of this Chanel, it adds layers to the technical aspects
and this is why i have body dysmorphia... 😂 this shit makes me sad but it also motivates me to be as healthy as possible and revert any postural damage i have done in the past
I’m middle eastern, my mom is from
The Levant/ Mediterranean countries and my dad is from Yemen. My mom’s side of the family practically worship Eurocentric beauty standards (blue eyes, white pale skin, blonde hair, straight hair) and my dad’s side of the family prefer tanner skin (but not *too* dark) light brown eyes and light brown hair. Basically, the lighter your features are, the more beautiful you’re considered. It sucks because I’m pale in “gulf Arab” standards and I get teased for it but when I go to, let’s say, jordan, I get called too dark?
same lmao but my mom is a pale yemeni
I love how you’re bringing attention to this. I wish the whole world knew and understood
You’re doing a great job with these videos. You can see there’s a lot of research behind them 👏🏼👏🏼
In my opinion, no country is as race or color obsessed as the US. I'm Persian but I have light hair and green eyes and for some reason, people here find that surprising and even praise me for it lmao. Everyone here is obsessed with categorizing themselves and others into "us vs. them". It's exhausting.
Auburn Rose so true
I’m persian as well!
@THAT GOES WHERE?!? I don't know about Japan, but South America and India are definitely colorist. The difference is that they're more homogeneous societies so I doubt their race issues are comparable to those in the US.
THAT GOES WHERE?!? You should take a look at Korea then, who’re even more obsessed with white skin along with their plastic surgery craze in order look the same.
@@shae20yearsago43 That has nothing to do with eurocentrism.
Talking about skin lightening, the same thing happens in Eastern Asia and it is not and has never been because of Eurocentrism.
Yeah.... sure....
It is probably more fair to say Eurocentrism has re-enforced a pre-existing bias.
@@katitadeb While a handful of white koreaboos like to LARP as fake Asians online, Asians as a collective are FAR more obsessed with European features and do way more to imitate them than Europeans do with Asian features. It's not even close.
straight hair considered beautiful is eurocentric standard?? it was only 90-00s trend, before and after that period there's always been expectation to style your hair in some way. it's like you unconsciously feel that pressure and guilt and shame for your natural hair. only asians have that voluminous thick straight hair, europeans usually thin-haired, especially blondes
I think he actually meant non fizzy hair
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see this video is chatting absolute gas
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Natural hair isn’t frizzy...
@@alaaye5237 I can be because of the heat and brushing in
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Yeah but that says because of a something that you did to your hair. But natural hair doesn’t always have to be frizzy
In my society light skin and coloured eyes seems to be considered a "good" feature in women and although they're a pretty common features, i can't help but wonder, why? 🤔
Where are you from? Let me guess. USA, Syria, Italy, UK and Berber or Nordic county.
my favourite channelllllllllllll 😩😩😩
I study international relations in college and we call it neocolonialism, the eurocentric imposition on other cultures through influence and power.
I'm from Brazil and I can testify that everything he said in this video about Brazilian beauty is true.
I support you on that, as a brazillian I do think people have this vision, even though I’ve only dated morenas. White skin do gives you props here, but I don’t know how much more. People with brownish color seems to be more acceptable than black skin color though :(
The thing is, you can’t judge unless you’re that person
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maybe because europe had the most well developed technology
@@Purwapada it's not just that, cause Europe hasn't been the center of developed technology since WW1, other countries ascended in that area, like USA, Japan, Corea and others. The eurocentrism still stands due to past colonization and the fact that their social influence is still very strong. In college we still study european thinkers from 500 years ago, like Smith, Marx, Rousseau, Maquiavel, etc.
@@vanessacaixeta Yes it's true but i dont think its a bad thing
@@Purwapada it's bad when a black kid chooses a white baby doll as "the good baby" like in the video
How can you say the 'average" white woman is a attractive fashion model ? The average white woman doesn't look like fashion models. The average woman of any race is not beautiful. Average means ordinary not ugly but not beautiful.
cheong728 he mean that a fashion model that is white can look like anything. doesn’t matter bc she is white and “pretty”. whereas ppl from other races have to be extremely beautiful and/or exotic looking in order to get the part
I enjoyed your video, but not all europeans have blonde hair and blue eyes, their are many europeans with Hazel eyes/brown-eyes/green eyes and dark brown hair. The whole blonde hair and blue eyes thing came from Hitler, who wanted germans to be on his side, as most germans had that look. However if you look at other European countries like France, Italy, Spain, and Serbia their are many people with dark brown hair and hazel eyes. Eurocentric beauty doesn't necessarily mean blonde hair and blue eyes only 30% of Europe has blonde hair and blue eyes. Also having straight hair doesn't mean you look more white, as their are many non-white countries that have straight hair, and then some European people can have curly hair ranging from blonde to black. I am also not dissing, I am just stating a fact, as the video makes a point on how Eurocentric beauty has influenced many people to change their looks, when we should accept all races and diversity. Their was many factual information, but you made it seem that white people can only have blonde hair and blue eyes, when I have family members who are blonde hair and blue eyes, and then I have wavy-curly dark brown hair and hazel brown eyes, then I have family members with dark hair, olive skin, and light eyes, and then I have family members with dark hair, brown eyes, and olive skin, and then I have a red head aunt, and we are all the same race. White people don't just have blonde hair and blue eyes, as the definition of a white person is anyone who is European or jewish. I hope this comment does not offend, and if I got it wrong that's not what you were implying then I deeply apologize.
You are completely correct
The outside world treats Europe as one huge country, but its actually bunch of many different countries/cultures and each has their own specific beauty standards.
I think he may have been referring to blonde hair and blue eyes because most Europeans value those features. I know this is anecdotal, but my friend who has blonde hair and blue eyes visited Spain and everyone there was obsessed with her blonde hair and blue eyes. It’s just a Eurocentric beauty standard, and probably more so because it is rare, even in Europeans.
That combo is a very rare trait even for Europe but I also think it’s that those light features are perceived as very feminine on a woman because they’re really more coveted on women than men. I think it’s that combo of rare and light that can make it seem like that’s the standard.
Also I think this is all subjective it self as some will like blondes, some will like brunettes, some will like dark skin, some will like light skin. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Remember your beautiful in each way.
In a global world, with changing power dynamics, hasn't this changed a bit? Thinking of big booties, plump lips, dark eyes (i.e. Kylie Jenner), darker skin tone, that isn't considered caucasian. To me it feels like the ideal is some kind of rootless exoticism, a hotchpotch of traits common in different cultures.
Great content.
I would just like to clarify the clarification. Dr. Huberta Jackson-Lowman in her book "Afrikan American Women: Living at the Crossroads of Race, Gender, Class, and Culture" talks about blacks sold as slaves in the Americas and not about Afrikaners.
She consciously chose to write African with K certainly for reasons clarified in some of her studies.
My lifelong pet peeve is meeting people for the first time and then them asking where I'm from because of my nose and skin color. Strangers have literally come up to me just to say that I look like I'm from somewhere else (in a whole foods). "You look like you're Perisian/Pakistani/Jewish/Italian/Indian/Native American" never accurately guessing Mexican. It comes off as "You look like one of them, outsider". It's been a lifetime of people othering me. Imagine the rest of the world dealing with the same thing.
Love from Brazil
Just 3 things that define beauty in real life
health/fertility
2 common/ordinary as how accustomed you are to certain characteristics
3 how much that appearance represents status.
if we have eurocentric beauty standards, why doesn't everyone want pink skin and thin lips. also how is being thin a european thing? and isn't the fascination with blonde hair and blue eyes about the rarity of it or the youth it implies, because babies have blue eyes and even people with naturally blonde hair get darker hair as they age. even in europe it's not that common among adults to have golden blonde hair and hair bleaching has been around for a long time.
@bunny boo are you sure skin bleaching has to do with a european beauty standard though? or is it more about rarity again? Asians tan easily, black people are obviously dark so maybe they want to be lighter because it's harder to obtain and therefore valued? back when white people worked outside in the fields etc they tried to be whiter too! but nowadays they want to be tan... also, I think the skin bleaching also has a lot to do with making your skin tone more even, getting rid of dark spots. skin tans very uneavenly, you get sun spots, all kinds of uneaven pigmentation...
@bunny boo and in Europe most people want to get as tanned as possible.
jwider96 “most” is wrong “as tanned as possible” is also wrong. Just because such people are present doesn’t mean that’s what the majority want. So check yourself before spewing bs.
@@jwider96 for their friends yes but not to look black thats insane
I don't get this thing with youth, how is it attractive to have an eye and hair color correlated with being a baby/young child since it signals immaturity and thus infertility ? The platinum blond hair are seen mostly in babies, then when people become teenagers so fertile usually the hair darkens so it seems more logical to prefer a darker hair.
This comment is very intimate, but I think this is the space to express how important this issue is:
I really have a problem with this, and I don't want to sound dramatic, but it really has ruined my sexuality, I don't know for how long.
So I consider myself as bisexual, always been more attracted to men (but not at the same time, I'll explain that later). I openly admit that I am an excessively lustful man (usually it's normal in men to be lustful), that's why the media influenced my sexuality so much.
But I never understood why even if I really like men I wasn't (and still am not) attracted at all to the men in my country. I barely was interested in any, I usually am more attracted to woman when It comes to people I know and I've seen in person.
And I didn't understand the reason until I found out about eurocentrism. I am only (I'd say mostly, but the difference is huge) attracted to white men (specially gingers, sadly, it's a fetish, I'm sorry), with women I am more opened, but I don't deny I also have the same problem, just not as strong as with men.
And in my country it's more common to find women with white features/paler skin, than man. That's why I'm usually more attracted to women I real life.
So when I think I'm sexually attracted to men, I'm always referring to the white men (I feel like shit saying it).
People from my country has more native indigenous features and african features. It's more usual to find people with short height, our eyes and skin are usually dark (I've always preferred dark eyes and hair over light tho). I want to clarify that I've never found my racial features and the common racial features from my country ugly, I don't know if it's because I'm like that (Cause I'm gorgeous), but indigenous and african features have always been beautiful in my opinion. Sometimes I even think we're prettier than many white people tho. But sadly, it has never been my preference in a point that I really don't feel sexually attracted to those features at all. (And that's very fucked up!)
And even if I keep saying I'm bisexual (I don't doubt it, but sexuality is complex), I have a huge priority on white men, it's an excessive whim, and it's frustrating.
I hate talking about my sexuality with people because of that, it's not only complex, it's also very racist.
And as I'm dark skinned I sound stupid because "dark skinned people only appeal to dark skinned people". So that means that if I have a crush on a white person I'm not worthy of them... Ok.
I don't know, I have tried to change that, but I've been with that issue for 10 years, practically since I started exploring my sexuality, so I wasn't concious of that for many years. Trying to change it doesn't work because it's like forcing me to change what I love just because I feel guilt, pitty and shame of myself. But I absolutely know that I'm stupid, let's say that stupidity doesn't change that easily.
Also what bothers me the most is that all my friends express how they prefer white people over other races with no shame, saying that it's their personal preference and all that bullshit I'm saying right now. And I always want to call them out, but how am I supposed to do it knowing I'm being a total hypocrite?
I really want to sound like I'm the victim but I'm not a victim... I guess, because nobody ordered me to like what I like, right?
Curious, which country u from?
@@nik8099 Colombia
@@cartoonplanettv Aren't majority of Colombians African and Native mix?
@@nik8099 Exactly, as I said, there's not enough white people here.
That's why thinking about sexuality is very difficult for me.
No wonder you ppl are easily exploited by sexual tourism damn get up for goodness sake
Every ethnicity views it's own look as the standard of beauty, because we feel more attracted to people who look like ourselves.
We read the same article for anthropology class
So my entertainment is actually reviewing class Materials
Math talk in a beauty video???
I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!
Being thin and tall is actually pretty practical for Stewardesses. They need to easily glide between the narrow walkways and easily reach overhead luggage. They probably aren’t screening people off their face, faces just tend to look better on people who are thin. If it was about attractiveness we’d also see a lot of voluptuous women or good looking shorter women, but instead they all fit the tall and slender archetype.
Being skinny and tall as a man is sign of not eating enough
@@draco_1876 if their vitals are good, who's to say they aren't just built to be skinny and tall?
I’m darkskinned never wanted to be white
Awesome video. Very informative and well explained. This is an issue that I see very prevalent in many cultures, but it’s so deeply rooted that most people don’t realize it.
In Turkey a lot of women dye their hair to blond and wear contacts to look more European and the saddest part is nobody realizes how we are affected by someone else's beauty standards. I hope someday we will see our natural and diverse beauty.
I dont think it is Europeans' fault. In Turkey it is Turkish men's beauty standarts, not somebody else's. Most(or many) Turkish women dont adore blond hair or coloured eyes like men do.
How do you get from a dude who just talks about looks to deep philosophical teacher I'm glad I found you man thanks this video is what I needed to be my self again thanks
Actually , im european and I was taught in school that persian people started math.
@@stomio6491 Greeks mastered it, but math itself is persian. (Saying this has a ethnic Greek)
Math was found in many cultures including African and Asian cultures. It's just that Europeans are very self-centered and braggadocios and take ownership of everything and the sheeple does not question it.
@@ms.bubs4fun506 too bad i guess
It is very interesting and amazing, but at the same time depressing knowing new reasons why I'm not considered an attractive male by the opposite sex. I already had a clue when I was very young, but your videos are detailed on the answers, please keep this series going!
i just wanted to point out that almost all the features that make you attractive, you can change: fit, muscely body, straight white teeth, clear skin, nice fitting clothes, properly trimmed beard and hair, nice smell and good posture. all of that is changeable. just a matter of work, time, will and money. no matter how freaking ugly and gross you look now, you can become attractive if you want to. attractive in general, not attractive compared to a high fashion model, obviously. but attractive in general is more than enough.
ʀɪᴄᴇ ᴄᴀᴋᴇ legally, yes you’re definitely a white make
How is thinness a european standard though. Thin people appear all over the world.
They aren't saying only European people are thin, they are saying Europeans value it for beauty. In many cultures, especially African ones, someone with a drastic hip to waist ratio is considered more beautiful than a skinny curveless one.
@@Keke-oh6zd Except thinness has NOTHING to do with hip to waist ratio, most women black or white don't gain weight on their hips so much that they keep their hip or waist ratio.
@@Keke-oh6zd urmmmm southeast asian culture do... exists?
Because it's easier for these anti-white parasites to just blame everything on one thing.
Phenotype comes before objective attractiveness for MOST PEOPLE ( if you’re way above average it’s not AS big of a deal ) . If someone is not “your type” you’d require them to be significantly more attractive than someone who is “your type” to give them a chance . In a lot of cases they might still pick the person who is “their type” . It’s all about “knowing your customer” . An above average African American will struggle more with “picking up” girls at a country music concert than he would at a Rap concert . The reverse would also be true for a Caucasian .
The fact that blue eyes were seen as evil in India, known as cats eyes, but are now a beauty standard baffles me. Colonialism at its finest.
Ya Ok you know what the difference is? They used to kill children with blue eyes.
Same as in wodaabe culture; they see blue eyes as a signifier of bad health
TTS Throwaway what the fuck? are indian people ok tho? jesus
Ash Lynx I’m saying the difference between killing children for having blue eyes compared to making them feel less “beautiful” is a lot worse, and the way Ya Ok phrased it, they seem to disagree lol
@@hej8606 They used to kill children with blue eyes ? Where did you get that from ?
This made me sad...
Skin lightening was practiced in many cultures around the world far before European colonizers ever got their hands on them. Also, "european" is just too broad of a term to really be useful in describing anything. Spain is part of Europe, but people would call them Hispanic, not white. And exactly how far southeast do you take Europe, because there are some pretty brown looking people the further southeast you go. Equating Europe to whiteness is like equating the US to whiteness. It's far too diverse to be so. It's like saying everyone that lives in Asia is Asian. Mmmm, no, not exactly. Russia is in Asia, as is India and Japan, and they're not exactly triplets. If you wanna say Caucasian characteristics, then do so, but don't lump a whole continent together.
@@-Datboijj- ?
The Spanish and Portuguese are considered white, by the logic that a European is white. Whiteness in essence is a meaningless term though because whiteness has changed.
@@nik8099 whiteness is a ridiculously useless term. People say that a movie with all white people, even from all different countries, isn't diverse. But a movie with all black people is diverse, cuz they're from all different African countries. Like wtf. Miss me with that hypocritical shit. I'm just tired of the logic of Europe is white, Africa is black, south America is Hispanic, north America is white, Asia is Asian (stereotypical east Asian). Literally none of it is true or logical, but people are naturally stupid.
If an east asian person wants to have big eyes (double eylid with no epicanthal fold), why is the stereotypical accusation that they want to look european when there are way more south Asian and black people in the world, and they also those type of eyes? Is this itself racism?
Coz they want to have white skin, high nose along with almond eyes with double eyelid, so that's why it seems like that. Have u ever seen them wanting to have dark or tanned skin?
@@truthseeker8324 the fair skin doesnt come from europe, though. Its been preferred by Asians for many years now, and when an asian person had loght skin, ot meant that theyre wealthy since they dont have to spend their whole day working outside with no sun protection.
@@truthseeker8324 white skin has been preferred before asians even knew about the existence of Europeans lol. Get down from your high horse. Also asians naturally have almond eyes. Its white people who draw their eyeliners up in a cat eye to create an almond effect lmfao.
And yes I have seen them want tan skin in the early 2000s because for a while that was the trend.
@@truthseeker8324 everything was good until you mentioned almond eyes and white skin. Majority of east asians are born with fair skin, and almond eyes originated from them and white people are the ones copying it🙄
@@noscope4234 okay if majority of them as u saud are really born with white skin then what's the point of having lightening ingredient in almost all of their skin care products? Soaps, creams, facewash etc
Great video. Makes you think about beauty twice.
this video is soo important, thank you for all the information i gained
People are attracted to familiarity and white people are the most familiar race to everyone--for most poc beside their own race, they're the most familiar with white people. I think most of achieving beauty is people trying to neutralized their appearance, and people do so by comparing themselves to both their own race and white people, who are also considered in poc's mind when it comes to the concept of beauty due to white people's influence and our familiarity to them. I can personally attest to this because for awhile only asian and white people were the people I had in mind for who I found beautiful until I became more familiar with black beauty, and I literally see the change of this because I have a blog that document aesthetics I like and up until early 2010s, most of the photos of people were pretty asians and pretty white people with softer features. In the last several years and currently, I gotten more familiar with black features and I find myself posting and reblogging photos of black people more than white people. I also genuinely consider Rihanna to be one of the most beautiful person in the world. I see this change in many blogs as well, in the early 2010s it was a bunch of skinny white teens showing up and getting viral for their looks. But now I see a lot of asians getting attention for their beauty due to the influence of kpop (honestly) and black people due to the power of representation and how they have dominated the music industry. But Eurocentricism is so strong that the average white person is considered beautiful and somehow a lot of people believe white people have the neutral face, when they also have ethnic features that doesn't fit most beauty standard such as their large noses and lack of lips. Full lips in particular is a common feature among poc yet for so long they just get picked on for their ethnic features while people never point out white people's lack of lips..until very recently.
I think people also confused striking with beautiful. A person with more definition and contrast will tend to stand out more. Most people seem to notice a person's coloring first as well, and lighter colors and contrasting colors stand out more than darker colors and homogeneous colors.
I think in the last few decade it's movies that had more influence than the fashion industry. The 90s was the last decade that actually had supermodels and in the 90s actresses also started taking models places on fashion magazines. In recent years, social media influencers had some influence as well but they're still seen as less than to Hollywood actresses. I don't think it's the fashion industry that have dictate the beauty standard in modern times.
@JessikaEmeraldit's not ironic because Rihanna does not look European.
@JessikaEmerald Rihanna is hardly mixed. She's 75% black with a full black mom and a mixed dad. A vice versa is Halsey who is 75% white with a full white mom and mixed dad yet she does not look mixed and is very passing for what she's mainly consist of, white.
No white person has rihanna's face, especially not with that nose and lips of hers. First people say Naomi Campbell looks white, now it's Rihanna. I didn't know white people look black and own all types of facial features.
@kinG iZZy and? I'm talking about her bone structure and features, not her coloring.
@@NaNa-wy2tk Thank you for that reply. There are dark skin girls with similar features to Rihanna, I would never mistaken her for a white woman.
@@user-eu8su7ss5x people are actually bothered that I find her beautiful.
Oh my lord how wonderfully this video is researched 😊😊
This is right to a fault. A lot of asian countries do want to be whiter, have double eyelids and overall just more “European faces” but most of the time it is not because they wish to look European, it’s because that has been their beauty ideal for centuries before white invasions. Having whiter skin has always been an ideal in asian cultures due to it being associated with not having to do any labor outside, and double eyelids are simply because they wish to have “larger eyes”, not due to any European influence. There are many East Asians who were naturally born with double eyelids, so it was not something they discovered to exist after coming in contact with Europeans. Not everything is about us
POC in western countries are a different story however
Double eyelid is different from having larger eyes :/
Harmony Lisa yes it is, all those double eyelid surgeries and before and after photos show off that they got bigger eyes
Harmony Lisa from my knowledge, the surgery makes the eyes appear bigger
People need to stop saying they're trying to look more "European".
Can you please make a video about what you mean by "healthy" when it comes to beauty and physical aesthetics?
Thank you for this series
I’m a mix of Nordic and Mediterranean Europeans. I always found the Mediterranean or Latin Europeans gorgeous! They have like a mix of different ethnicities live the black hair and olive skin Even when j grew up in a time where blonde hair and blue eyes reigned !
Everyone here in Argentina is med looking!
Damn, there really isn't any culture in the world that's not touched by eurocentrism! I'm from the Caribbean and it's the saaammee story...
the carribean was wealthier under whites.
@@paccawacca4069Well they left so....good riddance.
I'm a (mostly) white-passing half-Black person who has been facing Racial Imposter Syndrome for many years now, and I did everything I could to try and connect with the black side of my identity. I've cherished my hair as being the "only" connecter to that side of me, and was slightly sad that I didn't look "Black enough" and would jump for joy when people said that I do, in fact, look like my Black dad. I actively wanted to look more like my full racial identity.
And yet...
I would look in the mirror and see my face shape, my nose, the parts of me that, in hindsight, are clearly from my Black dad, and I would call those features "ugly." I would think that they made me look "unattractive" and "weird." I hated those parts of my face for years and years, and they were the main causes of my body image issues.
But earlier today, I was made aware of how some of these facial features are actually ETHNIC facial features. And I realized how many of them applied to me and my "ugly" nose. So I took a pic of my face, and began comparing it to images of folks with certain ethnic features common in African Americans. And I realized: I do look Black. It was both a wonderful and heartbreaking realization to have. To realize that I DO actually look a lot like my dad, that I'm not an imposter, but also that I've been hating the parts of me that MAKE ME LOOK BLACK. It hurt so much to realize the types of internalized racism I was hurling at myself without even knowing it.
And I'm honestly kinda mad about it. Mad that society taught me to believe that having a thin, pointy nose was the "normal" nose, and that mine was "weird" when it wasn't. Mad that I had been taught to hate the parts of my body that I wanted to love, the parts that connected me to my ethnicity and family. Mad that the world tells other people those things too. But we aren't weird looking. We aren't ugly. We just aren't "Pure White TM"
And we shouldn't have to have our ethnic features be seen as flaws when they aren't. Because Euro-centric features shouldn't be the ideal. Maybe, in all honesty, there shouldn't be an ideal at all.
1:18 random groups
>Europe is a continent
>Indian and Chinese are nationalities
>Islam is a religion
@@QOVESStudio in that case it's even more funnier lol, it's showing clear anti-European bias from the author
What I meant to say is that just like he says Europeans stole from the Persians the same way he could also say the Persians stole from the Indians and make a book about the 'Persocentric outlook of Mathematicians' but that wouldn't sell I guess
@@topg2820 ?! heh. That would make no sense. The book is not about who stole from whom. You know a lot of famous persian or indian inventers? No? Yeah. thats what the book is tryna telling you.
@@reflectlight1368 i dont think you got my point, I was talking about how the Arabic numerals which the whole world uses are actually Indian/Hindu numerals (bet you didn't know this), the Arabs still call their numbers Rakhm Al-Hind, the Europeans call it Arabic numerals because they got it from them
I'm not disregarding Indian, Persian, Chinese, etc. mathematicians (more power to them tbh they had written at a time when there wasn't any printing press), what I'm saying is that the book is clearly biased trying to portray an Anti-European sentiment to Mathematics which shouldn't be the case , maths is maths, whether an Irish or a Kenyan invented something it shouldn't matter, it's education not politics
My original comment was about the weirdly ambiguous broad groups which Qoves said are surprisingly the actual chapters of the book, What if you are a Croatian (muslim) mathematician? What if you are an Indian origin mathematician with an EU passport? Grouping of random sections like Indian, Muslim, Latino etc. is usually done while appeasing minority politics by presenting Anti-European propaganda aka 'white man bad', I'm not even joking the book literally has "Non-European" in its title
Also your point about not knowing Persian or Indian inventors, ofcourse I'd know them if they invented something of importance, when you go to buy a Japanese car do you call it 'Non-European' car?
Also did you notice I said Persian mathematician instead of Muslim mathematician, try figuring out why :)
Abhinay Raikar I’m confused about what you’re saying. He explain in the video why most people do not know of persian or Indian inventors because their work is not given credit in the same way European inventors are.
And the reason for using words like “non European” is because, I assume, the book is trying to go against eurocentrism. If you are a black person, you would probably talk about racism by using phrases such as “white isn’t superior” and “black lives matter” because of the situation. So, I don’t understand how that’s anti European propaganda. Nobody’s turning against Europeans, just trying to change the European centrist views most people hold. Also, what do you mean when you say “I said persian mathematician instead of Muslim mathematician” because not every persian is Muslim (I’m persian, nobody in my familial history is Muslim)
@@alexandraxox exactly, you understood why I was being specific saying Persian, because the author is being racist against Europeans grouping all the others as a group against the Europeans saying their achievements don't matter, saying "white isn't superior" is racist too just imagine how people would protest if there was book saying "non-Persian roots of Mathematics" with chapters involving French, German, English mathematicians, my gripe is with the author for promoting propaganda not Qoves for saying they need to get more recognition, if he was just plainly displaying the accomplishments of Persian mathematicians he wouldn't make it political by saying Muslim, if someone from Iraq invents something that doesn't mean all the other people who he has never met from Indonesia, Morocco, Bangladesh, Croatia also have hand in the credit just because they are muslims, religion has nothing to do with it
Also I've even said in my previous comment that there is no prejudice against other inventors, if they discover something they WILL be credited, if they don't then no credit ofcourse, most of the modern mathematics IS developed by Europeans or Americans because most of the learned move to America hence why history gives them credit, mistakes do happen if they have been denied credits they should be given no doubt but without any political bias
Also are you a Parsi/Zoroastrian btw? How's the situation in Iran? I've heard Zoroastrians get discriminated for following their own pagan religion, really unfortunate, how do your relatives survive in this environment? Please never give up your Paganism, always strive to keep it alive
When you mentioned the name "Guillermo Prieto", it's evident you laughed because you couldn't pronounce the name correctly. But "prieto" happens to mean, in Spanish, being dark-skinned but it is used in a pretty insulting way. So it might come across as if you were mocking about it. Not that it was intentional but coincidental considering the topic of the video.
I used to want to be white so badly, wanted to buy skin whitening creams too, not like that anymore but still shows its effects
Let me guess: Indian or Mexican
@@faustogiorno2300 uh why specifically indian?
These standards must have missed me because I never thought European features are attractive, and the most attractive person I ever saw was a black woman.
Great video! But it's sad to have my country, Brazil, as a great example for the topic.
Soooo glad you made a video on this!!
I somehow agree but high fashion is another planet. They don't value beauty. They value super skinny and tall people. If you see the face of the models on the runway nowadays, you'd be wondering how they're called models. If course there are exceptions, but they are rarity.
Interestingly enough though, there is a certain population within the indo-european phenotype who are considered beautiful. We have many ethnic Norwegian girls and boys here that really don't fit in with that standard.
Oh, I remember some American friend who went to visit the Nordic countries and he was shocked how unattractive the population is. But I guess stories sell xD
This video contradicts itself. You say there are universal standards of beauty and European ones. And then you go on to conflate the two and blame Western Media on the whole thing.
****The caucasian look, particularly with light skin, hair, and eyes has been perceived in many cultures as being more beautiful and desirable. Examples can be seen in the Nordic or Scandinavian societies (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland). Their people are just pretty, there's no denying that.
In an attempt to achieve that look, we see Asian (Oriental) women getting plastic surgery on their eyes to give them a more European look. We see skin bleaching in all black countries like Jamaica, for instance. Like it or not, it's just a reality.
Its slave mentality.
i’m still going to get a nose job to have a more “european” straight nose though. i can’t help hating my ethnic nose
Do you hate it because its 'ethnic' or are you insecure?
Emilia Mazur i’m insecure. i can’t stand how my profile looks with my bumpy nose or how it droops down when i smile
nicole you should be able to do whatever makes you feel better about yourself. ❤️ just as long as you remember that your ethnic background is amazing & im sure your ethnic nose still makes you beautiful. :)
this was an amazing video! also i love your voice bye.
Good lord! The other day I made a video on beauty standards for curvy girls and now I come across this video.
What I find the most intriguing is the fact that not one beauty trend magnifies itself. It is almost as though all the different beauty standards of the past and present, trending or not are in competition with each other.
The curvy girls want to compete with the skinny ones, innately want to be thin. Thin, not so curvy one's are trying all sorts of surgeries to look, what's the word - thicc? Fair women want a fake tan and dark women keep living in a world that apparently doesn't appreciate the for who they are.
I mean, look at this messed up competition?
Someone once told me that women are very competitive. But now I feel as though women are made to feel competitive in such areas, so they can waste their time delving on unnecessary, shallow things instead of focusing on their potential to lead, do well in politics, architecture, science, commerce, inventions, philosophy etc.
I think that these standards are a patriarchal construct to tangle us in a ruckus that would not even matter.
We must understand how patriarchy shapes culture and rise above it.
Great work as usual. Who is the beautiful model in the thumbnail
Everything is biased for me but I still can't get a gf. Ouch
witchblade ima take one for the team and be ur gf
@@yourmum107 thanks I appreciate it
@@user-eu8su7ss5x the feels 😭
Y'all just lower your standards lmao
@@user-eu8su7ss5x those are a lot of assumptions in a single message, yikes dude.
4:31 that giggle did it for me
Lord help you 😂😂😂
@@tha_architae6060 Hello fellow Army 😄
@@michelle5900 Wow would never have guessed you were army?
@@tha_architae6060 I like to blend in😊
@@tha_architae6060 pink silk is a reference to the Boy with Luv outfits😁
I used to hate my big lips and kinky hair. Now I love it and embrace it.
I just have an ugly face lol