2017
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-017-0785-4
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Egg White or Sun-Kissed: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Skin Color and Women’s Leisure Behavior

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“…Colonialism established colour-based hierarchies that idealized Whiteness as the standard of beauty and constructed colourism, wherein dark skin was associated with unattractiveness and savagery (Chen, Yarnal, Chick, & Jablonski, 2018). Colourism perpetuated the myth of White superiority and legitimized the subjugation of racialized and coloured peoples.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Colonialism established colour-based hierarchies that idealized Whiteness as the standard of beauty and constructed colourism, wherein dark skin was associated with unattractiveness and savagery (Chen, Yarnal, Chick, & Jablonski, 2018). Colourism perpetuated the myth of White superiority and legitimized the subjugation of racialized and coloured peoples.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is also what distinguishes colorism in contemporary Asia from what one sees in the West today. Whereas colorism in Asia has remained firmly rooted in the supremacist assumptions of lighter skin tones (a trend similar to classist Renaissance Europe), Western colorism has transformed into a system in which tanned skin is considered desirable because its sociocultural meanings became attached to the ability to engage in leisure activities and aesthetic beauty (Chen, Yarnal, Chick, & Jablonski, 2018). Nevertheless, colorism in the West is comparable with that in Asia in its effect on between-group perceptions: Racial groups having darker skin tones are still connected to a lower standing in the social hierarchy (Daniel, 2007; Ford, 2009).…”
Section: Cultures Of Colorismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Therefore, I suspect that many (younger generation) Asians may hold moral objections against colorism, yet succumb to it because of social pressure, because it is firmly encapsulated in their sociocultural worlds, wherein fair skin represents significant symbolic capital , as Nakano Glenn (2008) fittingly put it. Indeed, in their report of a qualitative study, Chen et al (2018) described the inner conflicts felt by Asian American women because of their disagreement with their elderly family members, who were often firmly opposed to their acquisition of a suntan, reiterating the importance of cultural influences on colorism, given that Asian American biculturalism seems to drive opposing views on the matter. One could further test the possibility of implicit versus explicit colorism.…”
Section: Colorism In Psychological Sciencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…They instead form in-group comparisons (only between other Black women) and end up with better self-image than both the White and Asian women in the study. Other sources touch on beauty standards including concepts of colorism as well (Chen et al 2018;Matthews and Johnson 2015). The sources tell about the overarching desire across cultures to have lighter skin because it poses as a status symbol.…”
Section: Differing Beauty Standardsmentioning
confidence: 99%