What Is Ethnocentrism And How It Affects Beauty
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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.
@@disinteresteddimitar9893 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.
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.
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
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.
Yup, I've noticed that in old indian paintings before british colonialism the beautiful, high status women are always depicted with paler skin whilst their servants have darker skin. It's definitely rooted in classism, elite people didn't have to work out in the sun so they were paler
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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
@@Sarah-ue1ew 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.
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.
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
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.
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
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 : ua-cam.com/video/_refWNwaKF8/v-deo.html
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.
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 love how well researched these videos are, congrats on this good content!
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 😂.
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?
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.
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.
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
So many people have made me feel ugly and undesired because of my skin color
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 💓💞💕💗💗💖💝💞
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 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 UA-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!
Love the sociological aspect of this Chanel, it adds layers to the technical aspects
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.
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 UA-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.
Thank you for this series
Soooo glad you made a video on this!!
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 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.
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.
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.
Love from Brazil
You’re doing a great job with these videos. You can see there’s a lot of research behind them 👏🏼👏🏼
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
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.
As always, great video 👌
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.
I love how you’re bringing attention to this. I wish the whole world knew and understood
I’m loving these videos!
Great video. Makes you think about beauty twice.
Oh my lord how wonderfully this video is researched 😊😊
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this video is soo important, thank you for all the information i gained
Your videos are incredible. Keep it up
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
This made me sad...
Thank you for this video.
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.
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.
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.
i would disagree that white fashion models meet or are closer to an average of a Western white/European descent average person. Models tend to have extreme features that photograph well...as most of us can attest to, being photogenic is not what average people do. Also scouting of “white/European” models actually happens in Eastern Europe, and outside of it...Russia and former Soviet Republics. “White” people don’t even meet their high fashion beauty standards. A Ukrainian fashion model is just as far from an average Western white person as a South Sudanese Model is from an average African American. Speaking of Nilotic peoples, most Nilotic type fashion models are considered quite average in the places of their origin.
I live for these vids ♡
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
Math talk in a beauty video???
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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
this was an amazing video! also i love your voice bye.
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.
I’m darkskinned never wanted to be white
Great video!
Can you please make a video about what you mean by "healthy" when it comes to beauty and physical aesthetics?
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
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
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 .
Can I ask- what program do you use to edit your videos? thank you
@@QOVESStudio thank you
We read the same article for anthropology class
So my entertainment is actually reviewing class Materials
Great video! But it's sad to have my country, Brazil, as a great example for the topic.
Great work as usual. Who is the beautiful model in the thumbnail
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Very interesting information.
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.
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.
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 ?
hey, I learned about this in my euro lit class.
I commend you for the amont of research you did for this video!
Every ethnicity views it's own look as the standard of beauty, because we feel more attracted to people who look like ourselves.
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
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
Awesome video
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.
When I was a kid I wanted to grow up looking like Barbie and always hated Fulla (the arabe Muslim version of Barbie) for no reason...
Now I’d rather be both :)
which of the sources is 2:32?????
So what can we do to change this
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.
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
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!
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