Yes it is right that choice of Indian is fair or which complexion. Some one is beautiful or not we decide it with color. Here dark complexion is curse. 

In places like Goa , the shop keepers and even the inn keepers overlook their own countrymen when foreigners are around . That's the reason why Russian immigrants who have come and settled there in large numbers call the shots and even look down on us Indians. We are one of he most color conscious and racist nation in the world ...

usha manohar wrote:

In places like Goa , the shop keepers and even the inn keepers overlook their own countrymen when foreigners are around . That's the reason why Russian immigrants who have come and settled there in large numbers call the shots and even look down on us Indians. We are one of he most color conscious and racist nation in the world ...

White color is reason but shop keepers give more attention to foreigners because they can earn much more from them, than Indians.

Indians are obsessed with white color. Its natural as even the scriptures extoll the value and beauty of fairness. The obsession for the fair skin is much more in South India where the hue is darker than north and Kashmir. The MD of one of the fairness cream companies told me that "fair and lovely" sells more in Tamil Nadu than coca cola. In retrospect, the desire for fairness is natural as the image of gods in all religions is fairness, but I will say teh obsession with a fair color is much more in India and Pakistan. No wonder Africans are discriminated in Delhi

anil wrote:

Yes it is right that choice of Indian is fair or which complexion. Some one is beautiful or not we decide it with color. Here dark complexion is curse. 

Can't blame this ethos creeping into the minds of Indians as even our scriptures and tales of women extoll fairness ( milky white) as a stamp of beauty.

usha manohar wrote:

In places like Goa , the shop keepers and even the inn keepers overlook their own countrymen when foreigners are around . That's the reason why Russian immigrants who have come and settled there in large numbers call the shots and even look down on us Indians. We are one of he most color conscious and racist nation in the world ...

In Goa the reverence for teh fair-skinned foreigner is also for more money and the chance of easy liaison with white girls.

MG Singh wrote:

usha manohar wrote:

In places like Goa , the shop keepers and even the inn keepers overlook their own countrymen when foreigners are around . That's the reason why Russian immigrants who have come and settled there in large numbers call the shots and even look down on us Indians. We are one of he most color conscious and racist nation in the world ...

In Goa the reverence for teh fair-skinned foreigner is also for more money and the chance of easy liaison with white girls.

I agree but what most Indians dont realise is that most of the tourists from the western countries come from middle class families and are careful about money. I have seen some of them haggling even worse than Indians with street side vendors ..

usha manohar wrote:

MG Singh wrote:

usha manohar wrote:

In places like Goa , the shop keepers and even the inn keepers overlook their own countrymen when foreigners are around . That's the reason why Russian immigrants who have come and settled there in large numbers call the shots and even look down on us Indians. We are one of he most color conscious and racist nation in the world ...

In Goa the reverence for teh fair-skinned foreigner is also for more money and the chance of easy liaison with white girls.

I agree but what most Indians dont realise is that most of the tourists from the western countries come from middle class families and are careful about money. I have seen some of them haggling even worse than Indians with street side vendors ..

Good point made. After my pre-mature retirement, I took over for some time as the Director of the Renaissance Resort in Goa. Most(90%) of teh persons ( whites) staying in the resort were from East Europe and from professions like miners, janitors, cleaners etc. They were very careful with money as they were not rich.

MG Singh wrote:

usha manohar wrote:

MG Singh wrote:

usha manohar wrote:

In places like Goa , the shop keepers and even the inn keepers overlook their own countrymen when foreigners are around . That's the reason why Russian immigrants who have come and settled there in large numbers call the shots and even look down on us Indians. We are one of he most color conscious and racist nation in the world ...

In Goa the reverence for teh fair-skinned foreigner is also for more money and the chance of easy liaison with white girls.

I agree but what most Indians dont realise is that most of the tourists from the western countries come from middle class families and are careful about money. I have seen some of them haggling even worse than Indians with street side vendors ..

Good point made. After my pre-mature retirement, I took over for some time as the Director of the Renaissance Resort in Goa. Most(90%) of teh persons ( whites) staying in the resort were from East Europe and from professions like miners, janitors, cleaners etc. They were very careful with money as they were not rich.

That is something that is so true, Europeans especially Germans are very thrifty and careful with their money, they never splurge no mater how much money they have unlike us Indians..look at the money spent on weddings and parties with absolutely no regard !!!