Color me White…nope!

A ‘peaches n cream’ complexion is what makes a person worth it. This is what I kept on hearing through out my growing up years. Born in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh and in a family which carried ‘peaches n cream’ genes and often complemented for just the right complexion, growing up did give me a tinted vision that white is lovely and beautiful and brown is not so nice.

What is fed into mind in your formative years does sit very rigidly in the corners of your mind. But then apart from schooling and absorbing learnings from the environment, Life itself is the biggest teacher. Soon I was meeting people who were not so white yet very nice!

Very sadly, in this age and time also, we pay huge attention to the skin color. Beauty is skin deep and so is the heart and brain. What IQ a person holds, what talent he or she harbours and how congenial or warm the person is, has nothing to do with the color of the outer covering we have..a very simple fact yet so conveniently ignored by most of us in our obsession with white skin.

Some of the nicest and warmest people that I met as a result of my work experience came from the very culturally rich and envious state of Bengal or the coconut laden God’s own place Kerala. Not only supremely talented they were the warmest people I met. My ‘white’ tinted glasses were coming off.

Unfortunately, we still pay great attention to skin color and most of the time form an opinion about a person based on his or her skin tone. We really lose out on opportunities and potential due to this bias. Move yourself a little more towards a person irrespective of skin color and may be there is plethora of talent and a warm heart waiting there ready to embrace you. Whaaat, do we still have fairness creams in the market? and what I hear they have launched them for men too…uhh!!!

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