I know you enjoy fighting in the gutter but remember this is a forum and we are discussing a particular subject. If you have anything to say about this subject post it. If you are seeking to settle personal problems, try PM´s. One more, stupid remark and I will ask for your account´s deletion.

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Cool down. I am placing a complaint. Let´s see what happens.

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Back to the topic... disadvantage of being Whitey McCracken... A white skin colour shows all imperfections much better than a tanned skin. With a bit of colour cellulite is less visible.

Well according to a source which was written about 500 years ago,the ideal turkish woman´s skin colour is supposed to be fair.Dark hair but fair skin

Turkish women don´t go to solarium to be liked by men btw It´s something crazy among women They compete with each other. If you ask my mom,her ideal daughter-in-law has got dark hair with dark eyes but fair skin She doesn´t like Adriana Lima

and about having dark&fair skin,it depends on the area where people live/have lived.75% of my ancestors from Macedonia,Bulgaria and Albania.This background has given me and my cousin some European looking.

but my maternal grandma whose paternal has been in Bursa for almost 7 centuries,has dark features.Her side is full of dark people

OK We have learned this particular disadvantage. I am pretty sure, dermatologists do know a good deal about this. Back to my fair skin talk; there is a void in the bottom of this one end of which opens up to racism. Racism flourished in families who had had non-racist pasts. On contact with other races, they developed a defense mechanism. They did not let their children marry people from other races. They developed a phobia of losing their purity. Everybody knows that too much blood has been shed for this stupid cause. Some radical decisions have been taken to mitigate the effects of racial awareness in Europe and America. Accordingly, TV shows began featuring a multitude of races. This point was paid  particular attention in children´s programs. The common goal was making people lose their ethnic awareness. Still, in the stadiums of countries like Spain, England and Italy, black players are subjected to racist attacks by the spectators. In America, racial awareness is usually a lot higher than it is in Europe. Unfortunately, racism has also begun in this country. Let us be paranoid about it. There are so many brainless people who are waiting for a spark.

Why are people from many walks of life still trying to stop racism? Because there is still potential for the things to get out of hand.

Don´t give your children blond Barbie dolls only. Let them get used to brown or black ones too. Don´t praise their fair skin, or resent their dark hair. You can´t imagine how many families are ignorantly doing this. Raised like this, some of these children become racists after reading a few wrong books or making a few bad friends.

Let´s do our best to kill this race culture.

Somehow I´m reminded of Rodney Dangerfield here....

I think you may praise a child´s fair skin. It was better than what people told me when I was younger... "Why are you so white?" "Are you sick or something?" "Jeez, you should go out and get some sun!" (Which I did, but not much change in colour happened). The real lesson is that everybody looks fine, just the way they were born. And yes, I agree with different coloured dolls. But even better then dolls is giving the right example, and showing the child how you treat people of different colours. A black barbie doll has a good influence on a girl, but mommy´s black friend has an even better influence.

This is ridiculous. Should we all now aspire to have a black friend? Are there agencies renting friends of different colours? I´m 32 and in my life I´ve spoken to a black person once. It was on a bus and he was asking me about how to get somewhere. There aren´t many black people in Poland, not many in Ireland either. Does the fact that I don´t know any black people make me a racist?

What we should teach our children is that all people are the same, regardless of their race, gender or material status. Not that we should do something just to show off...

Wow, never thought that this thread would get so much attention. Isnt is just a colour of skin?

And yes, shame on you, DD. You spoke only once?   You are such a villager! You probably havent met in your life any kazakh or japo at all. What a shame!

I agree with Vineyards. We have to learn to respect each other and at the same time keep our cultural heritage. Otherwise these big organizations like UN or EU or USA are going to make us all into one big, colorless, cultureless Kolhoz.