Dark Girls

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Dark Girl
Human beings vary physically in some noticeable ways. The most conspicuous disparity is skin tone (Barkan 92). The social learning theory asserts that people discriminated on are in compliance with the culture they grew up in (Barkan 100). For that reason, The Dark Girl already knows that she falls short of the social expectations of normal, good or beautiful in a universal culture where whiteness governs. There is also the issue where people from the same community make them feel unworthy and excluded. From the documentary, one of the girls says “I don’t like to be called black because I’m not black” (OnCueNetwork, “Dark Girls”). It is clear that the dark girl struggles to feel into society. Another example is when a young girl says, “I took the color of my father, and I used to hate him because of it” ( HYPERLINK “https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCyLLrtQqYKCcbTjBRgey-w” OnCueNetwork, “Dark Girls’), which is an indication that the Dark girl has been permanently marked as different. Another lady confesses that “I remember telling my mum to add bleach in the water so I can be lighter” (OnCueNetwork, “Dark Girls”), which shows that from a young age they were made to believe having dark skin was not good enough.

The media has portrayed beauty as having a fairer skin and how a person is not termed as beautiful if they have dark skin. For this reason, there are many …