Word: colorism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Ciao Bella! Designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana know a thing or two about making a woman look glamorous. Their debut cosmetics line, with ads featuring Scarlett Johansson, promises to live up to the hype. No detail escaped their attention, from the color palette gleaned from their fabric swatches to the powdery rose scent of the lipstick and even the click...
Technology has finally reached the point where we can customize children as if they were Build-A-Bears. Would you like eye color #00FFFF: Turquoise? Or maybe you are looking for a less traditional #00FF00: Pastel Green.. Might I suggest size 6' 1" height for your darling boy? Or maybe you’d like to explore our assortment of bundled offerings: If you act now, you can get the above-average baseball player package—50 percent...
...genetic diagnosis (PGD), choosing many of a child’s characteristics is now possible, according to Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg of the Los Angeles-based IVF Fertility Center. Using PGD, Steinberg and company have claimed to be able to screen for certain cosmetic characteristics, such as hair and eye color, and to modify them...
...those whose parents could not afford PGD. If genetic makeup becomes dependent on wealth, then people’s looks will be an immediate indicator of their upbringing, and prejudices regarding someone’s background would be developed merely based on traits as inconsequential as eye color...
...because of public outrage, not laws, that Dr. Steinberg and his team suspended their eye and hair color selection program. The United States currently has no laws prohibiting cosmetic trait selection; Dr. Steinberg describes the field as “an uncharted road.” But now that designer babies are a very real possibility, it is important that we act now to prevent a human catastrophe rather than wait until Babies “R” Us becomes more than a brand for baby clothes...