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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Asian women at the beach with their sun protection
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This is what hydroquinone and other whitening agents do. They make the user’s skin thinner and thinner until the person is unable to handle even basic sun exposure without severe damage. All this just to look like mockeries of whites. I say this as an Korean from Seoul, okay? Let’s not pretend this isn’t what it is.[/quote]
To be fair, we should all have those on at the beach for sun safety. [/quote]

LOL!  A hat and sun screen will work just as well.  They wear the balaclava for the style.  Asians, S. Koreans especially, are very chic and style conscious.  [/quote]

And plastic surgery including lasers that increase sun sensitivity are very popular and trendy.  S. Korea is the Asian capital for plastic surgery.  Lots of Asians travel there for it.  Again, nothing to do with wanting to "look white", they just want to look better as Asians.

FYI, white people are not considered particularly chic or trendy and not looked upon as a style icon. [/quote]

Lol you 2 are delusional. Get back down to earth.

CNN
Asia's growing market
But when it comes to these products, the Asia-Pacific market is the most lucrative region, making up more than half of the global market -- an estimated $7.5 billion out of $13.3 billion -- in 2017, according to Future Market Insights, which studies markets in over 150 countries. China accounts for about 40% of sales in Asia, Japan 21% and Korea approximately 18%.
"In East Asian culture, women prefer lighter skin tone because they believe 'y? bái zh? b?i ch?u,' which means 'a white complexion is powerful enough to hide seven faults,' " said Shuting Hu, who researches new ingredients for whiteners, looking at the mechanism in skin cells at the molecular level. She is executive director and co-founder of SkinData Limited Hong Kong, a technology startup based on her research at the University of Hong Kong.
And, as Lodhi found in childhood, darker skin signified more than just a mark against beauty.
Spotty reaction prompts recall of popular Japanese Kanebo-brand skin whitener
Spotty reaction prompts recall of popular Japanese Kanebo-brand skin whitener
"In many societies, especially in Asia, skin color was long seen as a sign of social class," said Evelyn Nakano Glenn, a University of California, Berkeley, professor of gender and women's studies and ethnic studies. "With Western colonial incursions during the 18th and 19th century, the light skin of European colonizers became a marker of higher status, while the darker skin of Asians/Filipinos became a marker of colonial subjugation."
Rachit Kumar of Future Market Insights added that "the demand is expected to continue to grow despite their potential health dangers. Asian consumers are highly concerned regarding their beauty and hence tend to spend more on such products, particularly the current generation of consumers in their teens who tend to have a significant beauty budget."
Kumar attributes the rise in demand in Asia to these consumers, who are "ready to spend millions of dollars in order to enhance their overall appearance."
Cosmetic manufacturers are launching skin-lightening products on a regular basis in order to cash in on this lucrative business.
Hu herself has tried most of the skin whiteners on the market, using them to treat acne marks or to even out her skin tone after a tan, she said. But she also grew up under pressure to be fairer.
"When I was very young, my parents, my friends and the superstars on TV all deliver a message that a whiter skin tone is pretty. So in this culture, you will be influenced and be one of them," she said. "Personally I don't want to be whiter, just keep healthy skin. Only after suntan, I want to be whiter, back to my original skin tone."
However, she adds that many products need to keep up to date with research.
"Most of the whiteners are using outdated, at least to me, active ingredients," she said. "So personally, I prefer to try something new and novel."
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