"What attracts Filipinas to Englishmen, and vice versa?" (Lots of answers, please)

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So, why do all the advertisements/billboards in Phils have Chinese white-skinned models?
I saw many wealthy Filipinas wearing skin white also!

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Yup; models tend to be Tisays.

I have noticed some rather unpleasant comments about Senator Nancy Binay's brown skin; I don't care for her, her father, her presence in politics as a member of a prominent dynasty or their political party, backed as it is by Estrada and Enrile, but I would have hoped that the "enlightened" Liberals could have found something better to pick on!

Kay's sister in law said to me (I am not making this up!) "Oh, she's all right for you - you foreigners don't care about girls with brown skin - but she would never do for a Filipino!"

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From a class type point of view, is it not more a case of how the whitened / lightened skin is achieved?

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Our 1 year old daughter has a cracking skin tone. It is lighter and she has lightened rosy cheeks too!

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Some good answers here. Please keep them coming.

It looks like the attractions, if any, of the Briton include good manners and reliability, along with straight noses and fair skin.

The attractions of the Filipina appear to include being relatively sensible (there are heroic exceptions to this!) being feminine and being a good mother.

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Oh those great English accents...

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Did she mean for white-skinned Filipinos?

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I understood every word as I was born in Liverpool.
Did all other English people understand him?

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The 'white skin' standard in Filipina beauty

"JR Lopez Gonzales This doesn’t seem to apply to this country of Malays, though. Our idea of beauty has been fixed on the mestiza standard since the 16th century: that a woman has to have fair skin to be beautiful. Obviously, this proves how ingrained the Western-standard of beauty is to us Filipinos.
During those times, the mestiza beauty used to be a rare find. Now, it’s different. Everywhere we look, we can find “beautiful” faces. Our narcissistic and image-conscious culture is further amplified thanks to TV, Facebook, and the ever-reliable Photoshop.
Clearly, beauty has its benefits. Beauty can win pageants. It can make the masses vote for someone undeserving. It can make one famous and could even be the ticket to winning a political seat.

As an aside, though, I am not amenable with how Pinoys mocked [Nancy] Binay's complexion. She didn't deserve the position because of her inexperience, not because of her skin color.
"Ms Binay didn't deserve the position because of her inexperience, not because of her skin color."
Beauty makes one attractive to the opposite sex. It sells magazines. It gets high TV ratings. Beautiful people lure us into a purchase. Nothing sells better than an impossibly gorgeous face.
But the sad thing is, the Pinoy’s fascination with the standard of "unattainable" beauty makes everyone miserable and discontented. In a country where the majority possess the skin color influenced by genes from our brown, Malay forefathers, scouring and scrubbing their colors off doesn't seem enough. Our well-off ladies go a notch higher to attain beauty through bleaching and other surgical operations.
Historically speaking, the fixation with the mestiza standard of beauty is one of those cultural influences we got from our Spanish colonizers. During Hispanic times, when Filipinos were considered second-class citizens in their own country, the archetype of beauty was the standard of the conquistadores. That yardstick where indios are ashamed of their own skin color.
No wonder we had people like Doña Victorina who abused facial powder just to look more like the Caucasian colonizers.
After the Spaniards came the Americans, and this pigment-less ideal of beauty was carried over, too. With the advent of technology and mass media, this love for the Western standard of beauty has been preserved by Pinoys up to this day. It is the kind of thinking where we consider the colonizers’ standards as better and superior; a standard we have to imitate.
That’s just how this white skin fascination of the Pinoys came to be. The more mestiza you look, the more you’re considered beautiful in this country of Malay slash Pacific islanders.
There was a controversy about Spanish chocolate bars branded as “Filipinos” in 1999. Accordingly, those chocolates resembled us Pinoys, who are “brown on the outside, white on the inside”. It’s quite unfortunate that the standards of beauty applied to Filipino women are still based on skin color.
It is like a mortal sin to have a darker skin tone. It seems that some sensitive racial barometer in the Pinoy still equates blackness with being dirty and unclean, or that having a darker shade of melanin is something to be ashamed of.
Many Pinays feel pressure to have whiter, lighter skin. Pinays want to be white; Pinays need to be white. In fact, dark skin is frowned upon and they are sometiems harshly called baluga, negra, uling, ita, kulay-duhat, etc. You'll notice it in the common Tagalog expression: Mahiya ka naman sa balat mo! Or jokes like “Black is beautiful. But too much is charcoal.”
Having darker complexion can make you a laughing stock here.
A tour around Manila’s thoroughfares will make you realize that there’s not one dark-skinned endorser on the billboards. Products that are endorsed by fair-skinned gods and goddesses, who are commonly of mixed-race descent. The American tourist who made the “20 Things I Hate About the Philippines” video famously noticed this Filipino fascination with fair skin.
From the day we learned to use our eyes to watch the idiot box, we have been bombarded with images that project a nearly unattainable physical ideal, these images form the foundation upon which our generation’s self-esteem and body image are based.
For example, our brand of showbiz is dominated by white-skinned tisoys and tisays, that’s why the masses adore these mixed-bloods. But if one really thinks about it, it's just that these gorgeous people had the luck of the genetic draw.
The adverts don’t help, either. Some ads tell us that we need their products to unleash our “natural whiteness.” Television commercials feature whitening product endorsements of aquiline-nosed celebrities who are already endowed with white skin, while another product promises “kutis artista.” Now, this makes me wonder: just what exactly is “kutis artista”? Well, for one, Tado is an artista. And so is Tsokoleit.
There's also rhinoplasty, skin bleaching, facelift, breast lift, face peel, tummy tuck, and what-have-you that are options just to make you happy about your appearance. For me, it seems that they are fixing parts of themselves that were never broken in the first place. But maybe it’s human nature? It’s that part of us that can’t be satisfied with the things we have.
With the grand slam win of the Philippines at the Miss World pageant, has this changed our perception towards those we call “black beauties”? Because most of these beauty titlists don’t possess the mestiza looks our society prefers. I don’t know, but one thing is for sure: in some ways, our international pageant wins lets us realize that foreigners appreciate the natural beauty of our Malay race; something we fail in.
I’m not among the fashion-slash-beauty police but I guess we just have to be comfortable in our own skin instead of trying to change it. It is a personal issue, but hopefully Filipinas learn to love and accept things as they are.
For one, our brown complexion is a beautiful hue without blemishes and freckles. Our flat noses come in handy, too, perhaps even in boxing where there's less nose to be targeted and broken. Maybe that makes Pinoys better boxers? That theory still needs to be proven.
We don’t need to look foreign to be beautiful. That’s why I commend Pinays who are happy with their natural skin color and shape of their noses.
My mom, I believe, is an example. She may not be a beauty title-holder but I have always admired her strength, kindness, and dedication. She is not fair-skinned but she has many qualities that transcend complexion.
This may be a cheesy way of ending this, but the truth is we have to focus on the more important things. True beauty is not skin-deep; it is timeless and doesn’t expire."



http://ph.omg.yahoo.com/news/white-skin-standard-filipina-beauty-083532429.html

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Just about..

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Yes, no trouble at all; only been to Liverpool twice in my life, but plenty of Scouse colleagues and shipmates.

Now, from my own sport, and at another extreme, try this clip from a 1963 BBC programme:

http://thesailingchannel.tv/hiscock/index.html

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What about these geezers?

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Nope; just Filipinos. She is married to Kay's brother. And yes, she's a couple of shades paler, mainly because Kay does not give a d..n about going out in the sun in shorts and a T shirt. The whole business is wierd!

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What an amazing couple

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I love the cooker! LOL

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Hmm tough one, I always knew even at school that I wasn't "into" white girls all that much. I always knew I wanted someone more exotic plain and simple. I ended up in the Philippines purely as a result of work. I could've easily have ended up anywhere really, Thailand, China, South America, Caribean. Just pure luck that it was the Phils really. I had a couple of reasonable long term girlfriends before my wife and both took me for a bit of a ride so it was a while before I returned (again through work) and decided that I was just going to have some fun in a sailor type way. That didn't last too long though as I met the what was to be me wife.

As for her she says that due to my great sun tan (my words) she thought I was indian!!! After a while though I think it was politness, manners, cash (?! lol), being tall and close to her own age. I think at the start she liked being spoiled abit and i like spoiling her. Probably a small part is the promise of a (hopefully) better life as well

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Yes, I noticed that too