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	<title>Skin Whitening and Skin Lightening Resources &#187; Culture &amp; Society: Light Skin/Dark Skin</title>
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		<title>Video: Trailer for Dark Girls (a documentary)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hessa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch this trailer for Dark Girls, a documentary about skin color. This is a must-watch for everyone, light-skinned or dark-skinned. Highlights: &#8220;I remember one in particular, they used to say &#8212; you stayed in the oven too long. That was really hurtful. &#8220; &#8220;Being in school, there was such a separation among girls who were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Everywoman &#8211; Skin Bleaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 03:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hessa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch this Al Jazeera news segment about the problem of illegal bleaching creams and their effects. It interviews &#8216;Marcia&#8217;, a user whose skin has been damaged. Some memorable quotes: Dermatologist: &#8220;Lighter skin is better skin or lighter skin will get you a better job&#8230;&#8221; UK customs officer in the UK: &#8220;Everytime we make a seizure, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Light Skin vs Dark Skin&#8217; party highlights black on black bias</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hessa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Club promoters in Columbus, OH plan to host a party they are billing as &#8220;Light Skin vs. Dark Skin&#8221; and have used social media (Twitter and Facebook) to help with the party&#8217;s promotion. An electronic version of the party flyer began making its rounds on the popular sites earlier this week and stirred up quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times: Colorism is the new racism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hessa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dozens of research studies have shown that skin tone and other racial features play powerful roles in who gets ahead and who does not. These factors regularly determine who gets hired, who gets convicted and who gets elected. Consider: Lighter-skinned Latinos in the United States make $5,000 more on average than darker-skinned Latinos. The education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Bleach, Nip and Tuck (A Documentary About The Growing Trend In Minorities In U.K. Wanting To Be More White)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hessa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch this riveting documentary about how ethnic Asians and Africans living in the UK are seeking to change their facial appearance in order to look more white. Some images of surgery are shown, so viewer discretion is advised. The 40-minute documentary follows a few people, including: Jet is a Caribbean model wants a nose job [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bleaching for beauty: cultural perceptions of what&#8217;s attractive</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hessa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I come from a place where many women dye their skin to be lighter. The chemicals in the dyes seem to eat away at their skin, and make them extremely sensitive to sunlight. These are women who live in a country where the sun is always shining, and even with that knowledge, they still use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History lesson: lead, mercury and leeches were used to whiten complexions in the 1400s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hessa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dangerous Skin Lightening Ingredients]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time for a fun little history lesson. (I just love history, don&#8217;t you?) Did you know women during the Renaissance period (1400s-1600s) used to be obsessed about getting their skin as pale and as white as possible? In those times, only very rich, white women pursued porcelain skin. Why was white skin so coveted during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Skin bleaching in Jamaica</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hessa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[View this incredible short documentary on skin bleaching in Jamaica. Highlights: A boy started bleaching his skin since he was 13 to attract girls. In Kingston, Jamaica, there are &#8220;vampires&#8221; &#8211; people who have bleached so much that their skin has become sensitive to sunlight. So they can only go out at night. One girl [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bleaching in some parts of Africa is nothing less than a way of life</title>
		<link>http://www.whiterskin.info/bleaching-in-some-parts-of-africa-is-nothing-less-than-a-way-of-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whiterskin.info/bleaching-in-some-parts-of-africa-is-nothing-less-than-a-way-of-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hessa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The African Commission of Health and Human Rights Promoters (CAPSDH) disclosed that skin diseases now constitute one of the top five out-patient cases in most hospitals in Ghana. &#8220;The humidity, vectors, ignorance, way of life of people and skin bleaching which now starts at an early age have compounded the situation and Ghana is [...]]]></description>
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