Originally Posted by
DollyBead
You are wonderfully rude.
Not only am I not a student journalist, but I am not chasing a 'scoop'. I am writing an objective article which I mean to attain the information for by being honest. I have all of the research I need and have been working on this story for months. I have quotes from Trading Standards, the British Skin Foundation, Asian Celebrity contacts and the MHRA. Every person I have spoken to over the last month, Asian or not, has been asked their opinion on skin lightening. Why they think people do it. Do they do it themselves? I know which products are safe and which are not.
Next time you are trying to give advice to a 'student' journalist, which I applaud by the way because when I was a student I loved getting advice from other journalist, first try and make sure they actually are a student. If you can't do this, how about at least attempting not to be patronising.
As for treating skin lightening as a cosmetic experience... as an ethnic newspaper I dont think that we should be endorsing any kind of skin altering to the 'Janes and Joes' who, as you said, may not be able to afford more expensive creams. Also, I would not like to speculate or insinuate that social hierchies are using these creams to make themselves distinguishable by race when none of my research has lead me to believe that this is true.
Regards.