Comments by "Angry Kittens" (@AngryKittens) on "Asian Boss"
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@sunen7129 While yes, beauty standards are strongly affected by mass media and cultural interaction, that is still an attraction for the exotic, rather than simply being about race.
Because it stems from the romantic ideal in media that we are most exposed to (songs, books, movies, art, etc.), as you have already pointed out, NOT race. We get exposed to a lot more western media due to our ability to speak English, hence our beauty standards get inevitably influenced by THEIR beauty standards.
Notice, for example, that in younger Filipinos, the ideals have shifted to that of East Asian features. Driven by the popularity of K-Pop. Both in men and women.
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@hiphipjorge5755 Yes, you could say it was classism. But it wasn't racism. There was a caste system in the Spanish Philippines with the Spanish-born whites at the top (the peninsulares), then the Philippine-born whites (the criollos), then the mestizos (mixed-white), the natives ("Indios") who comprised much of the peasant class, and finally the Chinese migrants who were the merchant class. But it wasn't rigid. The Filipino aristocratic class (the Principalia) itself was partly composed of former native chieftains who were granted Spanish titles and offices (the "dons") under the colonial government. Mixed marriages were pretty common.
Neither were there African slaves. During the early days when Portugal still answered to Spain, there were a few instances of slavery (mostly Papuans). The Portuguese were expert slavers. Like the Dutch, Belgians, and the Sultanate of Zanzibar, the economy of the Portuguese Empire depended heavily on the slave trade. But after the split and the subsequent hostile relations with Spain, there was zero African slavery, or any kind of real slavery in the Philippines, period.
You have to understand that Spain was very different from other colonial powers during the colonial era. While other countries focused only in acquiring wealth, Spain had a very different mission at the forefront: religion.
Once you are converted to Christianity, you automatically become subjects of the Spanish crown. Complete with human rights, one of which was that you can not be enslaved. While in practice, you could still work in slave-like conditions under the encomienda system, again, this was generally mitigated by the Leyes Nuevas. Filipino natives were in essence, "citizens" of the Spanish Empire, on the same footing (theoretically at least) as commoner white Spaniards (although of course, both were always below the nobility).
Further enhancing the difference is the fact that the Spanish East Indies was too far from Spanish America (Nueva España) to be much affected by it. Even though it was technically under their jurisdiction. There was a unique native Spanish-Filipino culture different from that of other subregions of Nueva España. The most obvious difference is that there were far more native Filipinos than there were Spanish colonists. The result of a simple fact: the Philippines was part of the Old World, and thus were immune to the diseases that killed off most Native Americans. The conquest of the Philippines was also largely through diplomacy and conversion, not through bloody wars.
Laslty, the Philippines implemented Leyes Nuevas (followed by the more comprehensive Leyes de Indias) more or less fully, unlike Latin America where powerful local colonial factions abused it and still continued virtually enslaving the Native Americans.
While yes, Filipinos generally acquired their reverence for Spanish features from the fact that the whites comprised most of the ruling classes during the Spanish period, it really didn't factor in much when it comes to the reverence of fair skin.
Because here's the thing: there was also already a caste system in Filipino societies before the arrival of the Spanish. Composed of the royal families and nobility (tumao/maginoo), the warrior class (timawa/maharlika), and the peasant/serf class (alipin).
Very fair skin was a sign of nobility. Princesses of native noble lineages (the binokot, literally "veiled ones"; or dayang, "lady") did not even so much as touch the ground. They were always carried in palanquins and shielded by parasols at all times. Having very fair skin was the symbol of being of high birth or at least of being rich. This was the same all throughout eastern Asia, and the modern-day obsession with fair skin is merely a continuation of it.
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@L L 🤣 No. Language-switching (code-switching) is a phenomenon which only happens in cultures where people speak 2 or more languages fluently. India, Hong Kong, and Singapore are other places where code-switching with English is also common. It's a sign of a polyglot culture, not laziness.
We don't code-switch because it's trendy or cute, we code-switch because it allows us to convey something in the clearest way possible without the risk of misunderstandings.
On that note, LOL, when you say "Indonesian is a beautiful language", which language are you referring to? You didn't know, did you? That code-switching is ALSO very common in Indonesia. 😂
Like the Philippines, most Indonesians speak 2 or more languages. People whose primary language is NOT Bahasa Indonesia (more accurately Riau Malay) will usually code-switch between Bahasa and their native language in everyday conversations. English and Arabic code-switching are also common, though not as common as in the Philippines. Try reading the facebook posts of your friends and family right now. LOL. Tell me how many of them use pure Bahasa. Especially if you're not Malay (e.g. you're Javanese, Papuan, Makassarese, etc.)...
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