Canadian Turks ask random people to guess where they are from

[Tooting Carmen]

Blacks generally seen as fun and non-dangerous people. They have better reputation than any muslim immigrant. I see some marriages but not common. My cousin's Algerian wife is also black-ish. (But their son was born with fair skin, since his father is pale skinned)

East asians cant be seen as a group. Japanese are highly respected people here. With Koreans with have historical ties due to Korean war history. This two have perfect reputation. China is different story, mostly coming from East Turkistan-Uyghur situation and this late corona- bat eating videos. I hear a lot of negative opinions about Chinese. They might see racism. Other east asians are not well known here.

Would you say Turkey has the same sort of 'fair skin bias' prevalent across much of Latin America and South Asia (possibly the Arab world too)?

[placebo]

tanned is more popular than fair skin in turkey. most people i know are crazy about tanning.

[Hektor12]

Would you say Turkey has the same sort of 'fair skin bias' prevalent across much of Latin America and South Asia (possibly the Arab world too)?

Nope. Most celebs end up with near-nubian skins at summers. Tanned white people most appreciated ones. But theres a clear bias for light eyes.

[Tooting Carmen]

Nope. Most celebs end up with near-nubian skins at summers. Tanned white people most appreciated ones. But theres a clear bias for light eyes.

I don't just mean in terms of celebrities, but even in terms of choice of marriage partners etc? (The motto of 'aim lighter').

[Hektor12]

I don't just mean in terms of celebrities, but even in terms of choice of marriage partners etc? (The motto of 'aim lighter').

Celebs reflect the preferences very well, imo. Some people prefer light pigmented people, some prefer dark pigmented people. Theres no general population bias. You can see a blonde pale skin girl with a heavily tanned, bearded, early hominid looking man. Myself as a fair skinned and green eyed person had my one of the longest relationship with a medium-brown skinned brown eyed black haired girl. (I also had real black gf)

[Tooting Carmen]

Celebs reflect the preferences very well, imo. Some people prefer light pigmented people, some prefer dark pigmented people. Theres no general population bias. You can see a blonde pale skin girl with a heavily tanned, bearded, early hominid looking man. Myself as a fair skinned and green eyed person had my one of the longest relationship with a medium-brown skinned brown eyed black haired girl. (I also had real black gf)

So you wouldn't say that colourism exists in Turkey in quite the same way as in Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Pakistan, India etc then? (They are all very different countries, of course, but the basic dynamic of 'lighter is better' is broadly similar).

[Hektor12]

So you wouldn't say that colourism exists in Turkey in quite the same way as in Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Pakistan, India etc then? (They are all very different countries, of course, but the basic dynamic of 'lighter is better' is broadly similar).

It doesnt exist. There are enough amount of people with all preferences.

[Kyp]

Would be more interesting if they asked the same thing for the more turkish looking person (the interviewer)

[DarkSecret]

I think it should exist. Blue-eyed, blond people, should marry people with at least have the same background in terms of pigmentation. Otherwise, there will be no blonds left in Turkey soon. Let's not forget that light features are carried with recessive genes.

[Nanushka]

Turk is a culture and nationality, rather then a race, because the turkic race is central asian... originally.... turkish people are not central asians, or between 5-15%. I guess with all the russians marrying turks and assimilating in turkey it will be fully nordic in 50 years.

not only marrying with russians Morti, I can easily foresee many Turks stop marrying middle-easterns and immagrants as this is a natural reaction towards migration policy which is not supported by Turkish people in general. They are being more introvert now and some racism is already in question especially among generation Z so this will also have consequences

Actually we are getting darker and darker due to unending waves of immigration from the middle east and Central/South Asia.

We will be like Canada soon.

true but as I wrote many Turks are being more and more protective and reactive against immigrants. So unless this retard policy is reversed, in 50 years immigrants and their supporters will be mostly isolated so there will be two types of people in Turkey: Turks and immigrants living totally in different regions