do foreign men just like dark girls?

[mamichris]

I think this is one issue that we inherited from the western culture and from our Asian country neighbours (China,Japan). Having a white complexion in Filippines means you are in the high/middle class of the society. This is quite a shame, because it reflects a confused culture identity of us filippino.
There is no white filippino, we are brown and I am one of those filippino who are proud of my complexion.

i truly agree with you peanutz...us, filipina women should be proud of our complexion...it is really sad whenever i visit the philippines, most tv advertisements are all about skin whitening products and all...people spend so much money on a whitening lotion that doesn't even work. just a pure marketing tactic...
the media in the philippines has also put more pressure on the average filipinos & they do not represent of the filipinos living in the country...most of them are half fil and half west so it's obvious that their complexion will be a lot fairer than the locals.

[Peanutz]

i truly agree with you peanutz...us, filipina women should be proud of our complexion...it is really sad whenever i visit the philippines, most tv advertisements are all about skin whitening products and all...people spend so much money on a whitening lotion that doesn't even work. just a pure marketing tactic...
the media in the philippines has also put more pressure on the average filipinos & they do not represent of the filipinos living in the country...most of them are half fil and half west so it's obvious that their complexion will be a lot fairer than the locals.

I just hope that more of us filippinos would read our culture and understand our roots...It seems to me that most doesn't have much knowledge of where we came from, specially the new generation. They don't have much idea of what does it mean being filippinos. I totally agree with Pete when he mention that we Filippinos have a very weak sense of nationalism...It is our fault. We are still in search of our identity since we have been freed from the Spanish colonization.