Does Your Kid Prefer White Skin Over Black?
Does your kid have biases when it comes to skin color? A new CNN pilot study reveals that white children have an overwhelming bias towards white, while black children also have a bias towards white, just not as strongly as the bias shown by white children. Does this translate to your kid? Should you be [...]
White Skin: Why Racism In Asia Isn’t Quite What You Think

In Asia, white skin is in / Photo William Wang Over the last few decades, Western nations have tried to become a “post racial society.” We try to look past skin color, ban discrimination, and teach tolerance. From our birth we are taught that everyone is equal and everyone deserves the same chance. Even if [...]
The Quest for Porcelain White Skin
So on the week when President Obama has invited Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and his arresting officer, James Crowely, to the White House for a beer to talk over issues of race, I thought it would be a good time to discuss skin whitening, an obsession of the leisure classes from ancient times [...]
Dissecting the Pinoy white skin obsession – Lifestyle
Whats the price of desiring white skin? Many Pinoys will spare no expense to have whiter skin. Thats why store shelves are flooded with whitening productsfrom soaps, creams, and powders. And, oh, who hasnt heard of glutathione? To be white is to be beautiful. At least thats what the ads tell us. Cultural conditioning But, [...]
Oral Vitamin D May Help Prevent Some Skin Infections
ScienceDaily (Oct. 7, 2008) — A study led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine suggests that use of oral Vitamin D supplements bolsters production of a protective chemical normally found in the skin, and may help prevent skin infections that are a common result of atopic dermatitis, the most [...]

