{"id":54198,"date":"2024-11-06T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=54198"},"modified":"2024-11-05T09:50:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:50:25","slug":"qotd-colourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/11\/06\/qotd-colourism\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;Colourism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>A comment at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/jan\/12\/read-all-about-the-truth-about-british-colonialism#comment-137316812\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>which reinforce the inherently colonial practice of &#8220;colourism&#8221; \u2013 the discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s not colonial, it&#8217;s classist. Dark skin means sun exposure. That is, someone who works for a living outside in the fields. Pale skin means someone rich enough to stay inside. Thus the bits in Jane Austem where the girls worry about their bonnets for they might get freckles.<\/p>\n<p>This also changed, entirely, when work for poor people moved inside and only the rich could afford to get away for a tan. Suddenly, to have a tan \u2013 darker skin \u2013 became a mark of wealth, not poverty.<\/p>\n<p>A change rather reflected in make up in fact, pre WWII (about, roughly) the aim was to powder or cream the face to be pale, pale, white. Post[-WWII] much foundation make up is to add colour, not take it away.<\/p>\n<p>This also explains the popularity of sunbeds and fake tans, something which a century ago would have been quite literally unthinkable.<\/p>\n<p>Colourism exists, most certainly, but that flip shows that it&#8217;s about class, not colonialism.<\/p>\n<p>For the part about it that the colonialism reason cannot explain is why that flip.<\/p>\n<p>That it&#8217;s about class also explains why colourism happens in places that never were colonies \u2013 Thailand say.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Worstall, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timworstall.com\/2020\/01\/12\/educashun\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Educashun&#8221;, <em>Tim Worstall<\/em><\/a>, 2020-01-12.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comment at The Guardian: which reinforce the inherently colonial practice of &#8220;colourism&#8221; \u2013 the discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone. It&#8217;s not colonial, it&#8217;s classist. Dark skin means sun exposure. That is, someone who works for a living outside in the fields. Pale skin means someone rich enough to stay inside. 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