I think there is a long standing cultural preference in Asian towards lighter skinned people because it was related to wealth. People who were peasants and worked on farms became tanned and these people were poorer. Royalty didn't work on farms and had fairer skin.
I believe it's residual from a long history of wealthier people being fair skinned and laborers have tough bodies with sun-cracked skin.
I think in India it's the same history behind preference for light skin because it used to symbolize wealthier social status.
I've met some Asian guys with darker skin that I personally find attractive.
I'm not too attracted to very many Indian or Middle Eastern men in general.
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I live in the US and I live in a city that's pretty diverse where race is not really an issue. I've seen plenty of brown guys (Indian, Pakistani, Mexican, etc.) get with girls that are a different color. Vice versa with darker skinned girls and light skinned guys.
I think in your case, you're going to places where race is relatively homogeneous and people are generally more used to sticking with what they know and find familiar (like an all white school in America, mostly natives in India and China, etc...). You'll probably have better luck somewhere where it's a cultural mixing pot and people are less likely to judge by the color of your skin
Because of our society. We are not exposed to that being seen as favorable. Unless you have been born into its light. It all depends on the circumstances and the preferences but it all traces back to society's standards and opinions. We have been brainwashed for millions of years that lighter is better. So that mentality is still being flung around sadly. :(
Because of common mentality, bro.
I'm not talking about whole white population but they believe in general that Indian men are very rude and don't know how to talk with women; also they think Indians are greasy and smelly. I really don't know how this mindset has been fixed in them :/
you can't just form opinion about whole race if you met only few people of that race, you know.
I hate to break it to you, but Indians aren't perceived as being strong and manly. Whenever I think of an Indian, I think of the guy that I talk to for tech support.
I mean this with no malice. Just my observation based on personal experience.
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To tell you the truth I thought that I'd never would like a brown skinned person especially me being light skin but as I started knowing him and him being sweet I felled for his personality he's handsome in my eyes and he's Indian and I'm Hispanic lol but I don't know what he thinks of me because I'm light skin so I don't know if he finds me attractive
I personally like middle eastern or pakistan guys. Who cares about skin color! If their face is hot. I'm a Asian girl and used to have crush on this really really hot Indian guy.
I always wondered whether Middle Eastern guys or Indians like Chinesse, Korean or Japanese? (I mean girls with small eyes)I'm not Asian and don't live in China, but my best friend is Chinese and I know her family was always very specific that she's expected to only get involved with Chinese men. She was terrified to introduce a white boy to her parents.
There are plenty of women who are either interested in Indian guys, or who don't care either way about skin-color. You may have just gotten unlucky. I don't think that any skin color is ugly by any means.People are a$$holes and brainwashed by colorism. This comes from a mix, of the standard in Asia being that rich people stayed indoors and poor people worked outside. Also the reason some people of color will date whites but not other non whites is the "white is right" brainwashing. So it goes: white people #1, their own race #2, other non-whites #3. It just comes from colonization.
It's the same in parts of Latin America also I'm pretty sure in South Asia too. I'm a Chinese girl and I find not only Chinese / East Asia guys attractive but also Indian, Black, white and Hispanic guys, doesn't matter the tone.
by the way people in an Asian country thinking that brown guys have an accent or smell - those are white supremacist stereotypes coming from the colonial mentality of kissing English a$$. People of color did not start those stereotypes. The colonists started it to divide and conquer.If you mostly see why world is coming to an in racial couples and I think its so cute..
try dating black women.. I think you have way more luck with them or date white womenidk. I personally don't care about a persons skin tone or ethnicity. I look at other aspects of a person. and looking at your picture you seem pretty attractive.
Well, I'm a brown skinned Black (African American) woman, and I find light, olive, brown or even dark skinned Indian or Pakistani guys attractive. Skin color don't matter to me.
I personally just don't usually find myself attracted to such peoples, not something I can control or know why... it just is.
White girls just aren't into Indian guys, period. Unless you look like that guy on Dancing With The Stars...
Asians don't like dark skin, period. It is purely unattractive to them. And the only reason a small minority would still like Black guys is because they are attracted to the stereotype.
You're gonna have lots of trouble getting women. But if you get in the gym and get built, flaunt it off, you'll do really good.
(Don't mean to be harsh but I'm just telling you the truth.)when will people understand that It has nothing to do with the color of the skin.
Its like the same guys who complain "I am not good looking so I am not getting any girls"
If your game is tight...she doesn't have a chance but to fall for you.East Asian girls prefer light skin (white and east asian). You'll have better luck in a location with girls who appreciate dark skin.
Colour doesn't bother me, I think people should date all races and cultures. My boyfriend is leboneese and pakistani
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