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Originally Posted by ILOVEJAPAN
Hm you may have a point about wanting to have lighter skin before western influences came in. But thats still sad. I still feel like its denieng who you are. Even if its not influenced by westerness, its still trying to be not Japanese. No one in Japan looks the way anim characters do. Maybe some celebritys, but not most of the random people walking down the street.
And yes there are lots of diffrent tones but its the same general colour.
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Remember this was a beauty point that was self-created, inside the country.
What I think is sadder is American women filling their lips with fat and their boobs with silicon, tanning themselves into leather. That's even less natural.
In the old days, in Japan, blackened teeth were also considered a beauty point. If teeth were too white it meant she wasn't a hard worker.