Why do many Thai people prefer to have lighter skin?

The Thia people are the best when they are happy to be completely Thai. In fact, in Europe the people there are in awe of the Thai culture and style so i hope this never dies.

@Jedsada **********

Yes they are discussing why many Thai people wish to look like them.

I disagree! They are warm and loving people who will do what they have been told to do to feel wanted and loved. They did not start the fire amigo.

@Donal ********

but now they look super ill.

@George *******

You must be on something very strong.

@Jeremy ********

not the middle east bro. Well it was not before the attacks.

Thai people do it to look like white people. White people darken their skin just to look healthier and pretty. They also do not need to throw formaldehyde over their skin to achieve darker skin. They will also not think their babies are ugly cause they are dark skinned. So conclusion! One is based on self-loathing, low esteem, and manipulation the other is just a conscious decision to darken one skin using THE SUN . A natural and god-given therapeutic remedy we have used since the dawn of time. Basic and simple . Any good book will tell you this.

And that is lower class thinking in a nutshell. They can buy all the cream they like but they will still be poor. Regardless, they need to make sure they don't look like one of those translucent chickens for sale in the marketplaces and who knows what this is doing to their skin pigmentation in the process. Regardless, any way you look at this its a lose-lose situation cause one day a child will be born from this obsession and it too will need REAL love.

Totally agree but most people love the sun in the UK just to be healthy. 40% of all trips to Thailand for decades comes from the UK alone. Hence they did not go to Iceland.🤣

i been out with an Essex girl. they do it to hide their skin imperfections (spots and pimples) and how many times do they get to see the sun in Essex?

too true! So TV is saying don't be poor and ugly like your ancestors be like those superheroes on tv.

Completely different you can put a football field between the two. The Thai girl thinks she is ugly cause she is dark. The german girl who is white and gets a suntan knows she is pretty and just wants to be a little bit prettier. Big difference!!! It goes way deeper but i am keeping it simple..

An intelligent answer! 1 answer like this in 10 is not bad I guess.

Hi Max - did you not read my OP?

@Xtina **********

they got all that from tv?

Janin any ideas when years and years ago was?

@Tracy ************

total nonsense!

@Nguyen ****************

even translucent!

In addition, White girls do not get a tan cause they think they are ugly nor do they despise people who do not have one. Simple....no???

simple! When we talk of the West are you talking about the Latin countries or the places where they get 1 day of sun a year like Scotland or England?

At what point in the past are we talking about? We need to pinpoint the place in the West because I suspect there has never really been a period of time like this. Sure I guess that if you had little money it meant working outside and catching a tan but you will, of course, know that for most of Europe, particularly in the past, weather patterns were quite grim and bitterly cold for most of the year. Washing was an issue of course so dirt and grime with no water could make another person who cleaned themselves each day feel superior in a strange sort of way. The fact your opinion has been given weight leads me to believe Netflix is at work again or Google has repeated something only made true because it has been repeated. I digress! Let's move along the lines of common sense and go back in time. Let's start with the 1930s. War and economic devastation( don't think they would have been too concerned with rubbing bleach over their entire body so little vanity during this period of time. The 1940s: Half a decade of war and of course needed to rebuild a ton of houses so again skin, not an issue. The 1950s: Working-class period for most of the time and very little respect for the monied class particularly in the UK and Germans were in their own social paradigm of remorse and shame. Spain and Portugal were under dictatorship and the Italians were .... well Italian, dark olive-skinned with thick dark hair, All the white women wanted one up to this very day. 1960s Germany was still in 2 pieces, Italians were still nice and brown, The Dutch were too educated to worry about such an uneducated issue. The 1970s..... All the people who were too white in the West now go to Southern Spain to darken their skin because of poor weather in their own country. They also learn that the more sun they get the more Vitamin D they receive and is great for their bodies so want more of this. 1980 , 1990 , 2000. No sign of wanting to be whiter.

@Kirstin ******

there is absolutely and unequivocally no correlation between the two at all and the Thia people are being misinformed about their historical identity. Working outside with dirt is a beautiful thing too because we are from that dirt and where we all belong.

Picture is from Lazada: yellow people are ugly it says unless you are a white Thai. I disagree!

This is absolutely not true. I lived in Lisbon and Spain as well as Belgium and of course the UK. I worked in Savilla for a few years and although they were quite conservative they embraced their gypsy and Arabic culture with a passion. There has never been such an issue of the kind you mention.

but now they look like they are ill.

Yes but that is natur......al SUN and SKIN . Any idea what goes into that 1000 bht buy two get one free jar of skin whitening abomination? White people who suntan will not laugh at somebody who has not got the chance to do so or even wish their children to be whiter than they are. I am certain your argument is not an educated one.

and wonderful skin.