Lighter Indians seem to dislike Freida

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I don't think Freida is fair at all, but I also don't think that matters because I don't think fairness is a deciding factor for attractiveness.

I think the Northern "fair" Indians who dislike her do so because unfortunately, the idea that you HAVE to be fair-skinned to even be considered attractive is so deeply entrenched in their way of thinking.

It seems a lot of fans of Freida who are white greatly admire her skin color. I am an Indian woman too and I would always get comments from white women about how they were envious of my skin tone, or that I was lucky because I "didn't have to tan". These comments came from women who subscribed (just as much as Indians to the white skin ideal) to the mindset that you MUST be tanned/bronze to be attractive.

And I agree that it isn't right to think you are better than someone because of your skin color. I never thought I was better in any way than white girls who wanted brown skin. I was mostly okay with my skin color because it is a desirable color in the States, but I was also influenced (by my mother and some Indian peers) into thinking that I should want lighter skin, or to NOT let my skin get darker. My mom actually refused to let me go swimming at the public pool the day before my brother's high school graduation party because she didn't want me to get dark in the sun.

Not just lighter skinned,most indians are jealous of freida

But I thought whites were Indians favorite people.

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I'll second that. I traveled to India a few years ago. The people actually in India could care less about Freida Pinto, most didn't know who she was and they saw Slumdog Millionaire as a foreign film that was more Western then a real Indian movie. It was not at all a film that took off in India. The Indians in India were more concerned about the movies made their and in whatever language they speak. Even in India, it's not all about Bollywood, Bollywood is just what the Western world knows about India. There are several different film studios in India.