I never really thought about my skin color deeply because I was always just brown, not dark nor light, but I notice that my mother comments on my little sister's skin color and hair more negatively, which I think is strange and awful. Also I knew this really light Somali woman when I was younger, and I always thought she was arab When I found out that she was Somali I thought it was really bizarre and didn't find it beautiful, just strange to see a somali that light, also all the somalis I grew up around were brown to dark so I never really thought lighter skin was attractive for someone somali. anyways I saw the daughter of an habayar my mom was close with a few months ago and she's wearing very light makeup so I think its just some somali's push girls into hating their skin color.
Why are some somalis super obsessed with lightskin Somalis?
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I didn’t notice any colorism amongst somalis back in the day, even from older ladies who tend to be the only demographic that bleaches their skin in the west (even tho they’re few). The most desired girls when I was younger were brownskin/darkskin
For me, skin colour doesn't matter, it's personality, then compatibility.
What media lol somalis dont have known Somali shows or movies that put lightskin on a pedestal. It's just colorism in the community and I disagree about not being as bad as African Americans since they are the only group in the world that does not have a bleaching culture. They have colorism but they don't bleach unlike us and other black people around the world. If u lived in America u would see that.
Sure somalis can be obsessed with light skin/colorist but arabs in my own personal experience are wayyy worse when i visited uae to my dad's relatives some kids over there asked why me and my brother's skin is dark. I was shocked to see my auntie way whiter than my dad (he's dark skinned Yemeni) turns out she was using skin whitening creams 
I struggled with internalised colourism because my family would point out how light I was
I feel you sis but I want to affirm you are beautiful and your complexion is beautiful too. I went through something similar, only that my family would throw at my face at how light I was, my mother would remind me I could pass for a biracial and anytime we saw a Somali aunt she would cry about how dark me and my sisters became. It got so bad when I went to Somalia on holiday all my family members would cry about was how dark I became and after I came back I began to research skin lightening products. Thank god I didn’t go through with it but it took me a long time to accept my complexion even though there’s nothing wrong with it in the first place, just that toxic people placed so much weight on a complexion. It’s why I don’t judge women who do bleach because all you ever hear in our culture is how light skin equates to beauty.
Somalis' inferiority complex when it comes to Ayrabs.
