Hollywood Diversity Report

These attitudes foster behavior that can be risky health wise. Many women of color resort to skin whitening to fit with the American standards of beauty. However, the Food and Drug Authority in the country of Ghana has ban the use of skin whitening cream, because it has chemicals like hydroquinone which have a cancer causing substances in them (Hahn, 2016). Even in Asian countries there is issues with the skin lightning. Consequently, the University of Putra Malaysia found that out of 104 female students, thirty-four percent of the student population had skin complications from the products use (Rusmadi, pp1, 2015). Nevertheless, eighty-two percent of men in the city of Lahore, Punjab consider lighter-tone women more beautiful and fit to marry (Rusmadi, pp.6, 2015). …show more content…
For African Americans, seeing their race get constantly painted as second-class citizen is crippling to their self-esteem, even when they rise to the middle class. Since, African Americans are in the lower-class sections of society they do not control the media. However, out of all the races they watch it the most. According to the Hollywood Diversity Report from 2013 they found that eighty-eight percent of TV writers are white, and twelve percent are black. This statistic is very noticeable throughout the entertainment industry, because many writers, and directors will cast people who are not even of a part of a minority to portray a character. For example, the well-known video of rapper’s 50 cent name “Candy Shop” features Olivia a singer who appears African America singing hypersexual lyrics and dancing very