Prove it. You brought up the racist Orientalist myth that Koreans bleach their skin. I've been issuing this challenge for a long time now, but I have decided to keep a single thread for it. Welcome to the Prove The Racist Orientalist Bleaching Myth Thread.
Belief that such a product exists is used to scam people out of money. Surely you recognize that this is wrong and immoral. It is important to establish what the truth is.
A Korean product that bleaches the skin does not exist, which is the point of this post, to make people research and empathize,
"Oh, that was a racist lie all along. Maybe we should stop falsely accusing Koreans of doing it. That seems extremely hateful now. How strange it must have felt all this time to be falsely accused that your skin color is fake, to be called a liar over and over again, to have your own word, about your own skin, treated as less belieavable than a stranger's accusataion."
It is not real, which is why I created this thread, in the hopes of combatting a harmful racist lie.
Koreans have been telling you that we don't, forever, but none of you ever believe anything any of us say. The tweet I quoted above has something like 2.5k likes on it. As you can see from these tweets, many other Brazilians have also expressed the belief that it is real.
For ten to twelve years, Korean women have been accused on social forums of bleaching their skin, and then accused further of being racist for it, reasoning that seeking fair skin means you must hate people with darker skin. None of those accusers ever stopped to check whether the thing they were accusing us of even exists. They were not correcting us and they were not teaching us anything. We are falsely accused of bleaching, then falsely accused of racism for a thing we never did.
Our light skin is a native adaptation from our Siberian ancestry. We evolved to darken under the summer sun, then lose our tan fast to absorb more sunlight for vitamin D in a climate with limited sun exposure. That trait is why Koreans tan and are prone to sun damage. This is a racial trait of of the indigenous people of Korea, who are light-skinned and only dark when tanned.. Calling it fake, mocking it, or accusing people over an inherited trait of their own ethnicity that they did not choose and cannot change, that is racism.
If you still think this is real after all that, you should be able to prove it. Maybe you'll be the first person to find the secret Oriental ingredient in the potion that bleaches skin.
The rules are that you must identify the ingredient that bleaches skin, at least one product that contains that ingredient, and it must be approved by Korean regulation agencies. No fake products.
Easy, right? Because there are so many?
Tyrosinase inhibitors don't count. Many people mistake them for a skin bleach, but they only inhibit the overproduction of melanin and cannot take the baseline skin color below the genetic baseline. They are good for fading sunspots, since Koreans are genetically susceptible to UV damage, one of the many health reasons that Koreans avoid tanning.
Glutathione injections don't count either. They are also a tyrosinase inhibitor, and don't bleach the skin below its genetic baseline.
Makeup doesn't count, sunscreen pigments don't count: zinc oxide, titanium dioxide. They wash off and don't bleach the skin.
If you break the rules, I block you immediately. I say this ahead of time so you aren't surprised and wonder why.
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