Skin-color preferences and body satisfaction among 100 South Asian-Canadian and 100 European-Canadian female university students were examined. South Asian-Canadian females were found to desire lighter skin than they possessed and had lower body satisfaction compared with European-Canadian females. Among South Asian-Canadians, the desire to be lighter skinned was greater the more participants differed from the cultural White ideal. Light- and medium-skinned South Asian-Canadians had the highest and lowest levels of body satisfaction, respectively.

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Abstract:This article aims at exploring how children, particularly in rural areas of Bihar, an economically poor but culturally rich state of India, enjoy their leisure with limited resources available to them. Broken bangles, tamarind seeds, old clothes and even hard covers of old notebooks become sports equipment and a source of enjoyment for them, especially for those who cannot afford buying expensive goods.

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Young sexual offenders claim that there are various factors that made them offenders. By playing the blaming game, they try to protect their self-esteem and diffuse responsibilities for their offensive behavior. The aim of this study is to analyze the situation they faced, which they claim made them offenders. An attempt has also been made to analyze how their socio-cultural and family system of punishment as well as their moral education compelled them to control their behavior and over come from the guilt feelings, they suffered after their offensive behaviors.