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Originally Posted by Aptrganga
I tell you an other example: One of my sisters dyes her hair in order not to look blond as she thinks it is a shame
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I must have said this lots of times. Whatever the reasons your sister sees to dye her hair (black? brunette?), it is just fashion probably influenced by some social event. It happened here decades ago. Only that all the way round.
It all started in the 50s in Spain with the so-called
aperture. Spain had lived pretty much isolated. (As the saying goes, it is better to be alone than in bad company.) So at the start the
aperture was little more than Northern European tourists coming to Spain to profit from the cheap prices here.
The Catholic Church was powerful in Spain. Women were taught to keep their honour for their future husbands. So having sex outside marriage was a most difficult thing to achieve. But well.. it was all more entertaining.
The first tourists to come to Spain were blonde Scandinavians. If you remember, countries like Sweden were the most liberal at the time. So, Spanish men found easy in these Scandinavian women what they couldn't get with the Spanish women.
There it started the popularity of blonde women here, helped by the images that arrived from Hollywood. Spanish women got somehow confused seeing Spanish men after these blonde foreign women. They didn't understand that it was not the blonde hair that the men were attracted for, but the availability of sex. So, women in Spain started to dye their hair blonde.
Of course this trend has changed much among the later generations. To this day, dying the hair blonde is still seen among young girls but only in the lower classes. Oh.. and among South American Mestizo immigrants. Most striking..
So, I wouldn't worry much about it as it is just a trend that will go away sooner or later.
As for Nordid women dying their hair dark.. it shouldn't work. Light colour hair softens the facial traits, while dark hair works in the opposite direction. While dying the hair blonde on a dark hair woman can work fine because it softens her facial traits, it is most probable that it will work in the opposite direction for a blonde hair woman who dyes her hair dark, as it will harden her facial traits.
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not to mention my other sister marryed a semi-wog...
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One confession for another..
I too have a brother who lives with a Brazilian. Apparently she is a light Mulatta. I've said apparently because he won't dare to introduce her to me.
We haven't spoken a word to each other in years. And it is sad to see how he meets rejection in most of our family, especially my sisters. Fortunately even my parents --who are not nationalist but have always been liberal (in the sense of tolerant, not in the political sense of the word)-- have made it clear for him that she is not to enter in the family home.
I never thought that I would hear what I heared from a people as liberal as my parents, especially my mother who is profoundly Catholic yet she has never had a displeasant word or pulled a face of disappointment to any of mine or my brothers' girlfriends or of my sisters' boyfriends. Even when she always made clear that her preference would be a local girl, preferably from a family known to them, yet that she would accept and respect our choice whichever it was. In short, their comment was that they were relieved because they were sure that my brother cannot have children.
It is a drama. And I can understand what a drama it must be to you and to your family. It makes it worse the fact that it is not your brother, but your sister. Or, well.. in my eyes it would have been all the more dramatic if it had been one of my sisters... and the same in the eyes of my parents... I can assure you that the drama would have reached the levels of a tragedy.
Maybe that's more of a Southern European thing though, but I believe that it is right that it is so.