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Short rant.

A considerable part of my low self-esteem probably stems from the fact that people around me discriminate people who are tan.

Why am I objected to unnecessary judgements just because of my skin tone, which I (seriously) don't have a control over? When people joke about the hole in my teeth, or even weight (though no one is terrible enough to do that)... I'm perfectly okay with it because it's something that I can actually change, and it is my own fault/responsibility that I attract negative judgments. I would feel sad, but I wouldn't blame anyone for it. But for skin tone... You are mocking my genes; doesn't that make you no different from a racist?

People JUST have to make some casual remark about my skin tone in every little thing they talk about - 'No, she can't represent this character because she is tan (note: said character isn't even known to be fair. I can't deny I can never represent Snow White, but what the hell has freaking Powerpuff Girls gotta do with skin colour???)'; 'So tan already still drink coffee? (I can't drink coffee???) You like kopi-o right?'; or instances where they place you next to a fair skinned person and call you Oreo or coffee-against-milk, then laugh at you like you are the pariah of society.

It's like a crime that I don't have porcelain skin. So I'm not allowed to breathe the same air as fair skinned people, and it irks you so much that you gotta just comment on it to gratify yourself? It is so casual, you don't even know your offhand remark actually hurts and casts shadows in people's hearts. And you don't know that doing that is showing more people around you that it is fine to make this kind of judgmental remarks, and victims will be fine with it.

Granted that there are times when such jokes are fine when we are on the topic of skin tone, but letting your discriminatory views pepper your judgment on other things - not okay.

Now I know better. I can't change my skin tone. I can't change you people's opinions about people who are tan. I don't need your approval. I'm not gonna stay feeling victimized and unwanted and undesired. I'm gonna make the best out of this and become one helluva proudly tan girl that can't care less about you whether or not you like it.

Clovergreen♥

There's more to things
than you'll ever know,
but I'm beginning to anticipate the unknown.

Smile,
because you are worth it.

Tey Xiao Wei
08021991
NUS FASS
Victoria Junior College
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