Question

According to Nakano Glenn (2010) “How is skin lightening interwoven into the world economic system and its transnational circuits of products, capital, culture, and people?” This question asks to critically and conceptually analyze the above quote and discuss it is a human rights issue.

Answer 1

All over the world, the market economy was controlled by light, pale or white skinned Western countries, especially the Europeans and the descendant in various countries. They ruled most of the world and instilled a mind-set and inferiority complex among the native people who they ruled by stating that white skin is superior and white skinned people are always right. Thus, people in the countries where they ruled made to believe that white people wouldn’t lie. Thus, people in the developing and underdeveloped countries were forced to use the creams that would make them fair. It also left them with a guilty feeling if they are not fair. Companies that produced these products advertised vigorously and attached using these products to pride and social status. It’s thus a human rights issue because companies do not show the original people who used the products and secondly, people are cheated and made to believe that their culture and practices are bad and finally, they are also treated as second class citizens and treated differently just because of their skin color.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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