Lack of job opportunities is the cause of this tbh. The two (easy) ways to get rich in Somalia as a woman is to sell clothing or beauty products (bleaching agents). The first people to sell these products brought this nonsense from carab/timojilec countries where people hate dark skin far more and in order to sell their products they had to first induce a raging inferiority complex in the girls. I don’t think people remember how vile their colorist marketing used to be the first decade they started selling this shit in Somalia they’d tell the girls dark skin = unhygenic, they’d tell the girls they’d never find a spouse as long as they were darker, ”doqon iyo habeen ba madow” etc. Now they see bleaching agents as a normal part of their beauty regimen, but it took alot of brainwashing to get there.
I genuinely believe these people need to be jailed. Them and the ones that sell the fattening pills.
I genuinely believe these people need to be jailed. Them and the ones that sell the fattening pills.