Empress of Hawiye
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Most Somalis I've met are brown skin-tone.
Karmel women who lighten their skin.
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Those are not ethnic somalis they are arab- Indian mutts and they only exist in that small area of xamarhuh? theres bares lightskins in xamar one neighbourhood where i went to was nearly all lightskins
mf they were hawiye.... they looked somali and were lightskinned like me. even some mfs in my fam are lightskinned.
im not talkin bout xamar cadcad
Empress of Hawiye
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That's a bit harsh just cos they're light skin no need to hate your probably just jealous
hella darkskin mfs are harder to find than lightskinned mfs
This might upset some but there is some slight evolutionary basis behind the idea of society desiring women to be paler that isn't caused by cadaans and their beauty standards. It's actually basic Human sexual dimorphism that women are on average less pigmented than men. Even among cadaans, from what I recall, it has been shown that their women have somewhat higher rates of blondism, blue eyes and very pale skin. And you see accounts even during the Middle-Ages before Europeans came across the New World and took off where people use terminology like "fair maiden".
It was even the old Somali beauty mentality. I caught it with an old ayeeyo when she once weirdly said to me that my being rather dark was a "good thing for a man" and that pale men are seen as girly and dumb in Somali society. I asked her about girls and she said it was the opposite and that a girl should be lighter skinned. A Habesha friend confirmed that this was the mentality among old Habeshas too. Even among some surveys I've seen done in the west you see that women tend to favor darker featured men (brown over blue eyes and so on) cos it somehow seems more "dominant" to them or something whereas the opposite seems true for males regarding females.
But of course the absurd extremes it's reached now is likely due to Europeans.
It was even the old Somali beauty mentality. I caught it with an old ayeeyo when she once weirdly said to me that my being rather dark was a "good thing for a man" and that pale men are seen as girly and dumb in Somali society. I asked her about girls and she said it was the opposite and that a girl should be lighter skinned. A Habesha friend confirmed that this was the mentality among old Habeshas too. Even among some surveys I've seen done in the west you see that women tend to favor darker featured men (brown over blue eyes and so on) cos it somehow seems more "dominant" to them or something whereas the opposite seems true for males regarding females.
But of course the absurd extremes it's reached now is likely due to Europeans.
i meant like a whole street mf.. most of the mfs there were lightskinned...
Empress of Hawiye
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Empress of Hawiye
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OH my god that's the biggest lie i've ever heard
ur capping... im hawiye and some of my cousins look white and can pass as arab. im literally caramel
I never said otherwise, abaayo. I even prefer darker-skinned women, personally. Just saying that there seems an evolutionary basis for why so many societies seem to prefer women to be paler. It is genetically programmed in us as a species for men to be darker on average than women and, for whatever reason, the average man tends to prefer a woman from his group who is at least lighter than him whereas women seem to prefer the opposite, consciously or subconsciously. So it's not all cadaans' fault, I think. But this whole unnatural need to be SUPER light and wear colored contacts and stuff among many non-white women nowadays is definitely, in my opinion, caused by cadaans being the global beauty standard.
i prefer how a girl dresses and acts than her skin colour.
They avoid sunlight for fear of it darkening their ass.90% of xalimos I've met who were 10 10 were red/dark skinned nothing matches the glow of the sun bouncing off their skin
maybe its cuh im not brainwashed by gaalo propoganda but I never got the hate and I dont like the bleached look thats popular in geisa the women there look ill with that ashy look
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Bleaching your skin has so many harmful effects. Maybe it’s why the rate of autism is getting higher amongst Somali children.
How does that theory work with other SSA's? Somalis have the light skin gene, and some of our people are light skined, but the same can't be said for the majority of Bantus or Nilotes. So, now when black men prefer lighter women how can it be evolutionary?
Even with these populations if you pay close attention the women are on average lighter than the men. It is a basic and well-documented Human sexual dimorphic trait, from what I gather. Caused by either sexual selection or just the male vs female hormonal makeup with men just naturally tending to produce more pigment.
But that's where I say the western influence nowadays is obvious as in nature a human male might prefer a woman who is "lighter" but really just lighter within the context of his own people that he is used to. It doesn't make much sense for a madow dude to be thirsting after a woman with the skin-tone of a Maghrebi or Northern European, for instance. That's too great of a difference in my opinion to fit with the evolutionary stuff.
But either way, the point is that cadaans are not fully responsible for why societies all over the world and women all over the world have it in their head that being paler = better. At least it doesn't seem so. They've just turbo charged it, I think.
there's literally zero physical differences between somalis based on qabiil, you'll find very dark somalis of all qabiils in every region
Doesn’t skin lighteners contain mercury?
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