All's Fair in Vietnam (Asean) by Noah Klinger

First and foremost, in my opinion, how can a skin tone affect a certain person in terms of beauty or others? For many women in this world, skin tone is like everything and they willing to do anything to be a perfectly gorgeous. At Vietnam, I was shock to know that the women there are really take it seriously about this matter. For them, the most important symbol was a pearl-white, luminous face- ‘a face like the moon’. In the West, they would use their leisure time to hang out on the beach for hours but not in Vietnam. In Vietnam, they would toll in rice paddies in the blazing sun. Vietnamese would very shock if they see people who are fairer than them. They are not ashamed to ask how much it cost to be fair than they are now. As like the writer, he/she was very self-conscious about the look. Back to the West, he/she are rather stay at the patch of shade rather than everyone else who are enjoy their self at the beach. For me, why did you need to go the beach if you are extremely conscious about your skin tone? In Vietnam, however, this curious genetic discrepancy became a source of admiration for the locals. They are really amazed how fairest the West people are. Sometimes, they would give a compliment to them. Funny part is they are grabbing the writer’s hand and holding it up to their own sake of comparison. It is not surprised that a women are demanding to know what kind of special diet the writer are having to maintain such a complexion. From the short stories, I found that it is not necessary for all women at there to solve the problem of protecting themselves from UV rays by wearing an assortment of coverings, including hats, gloves and face-masks that make them look like motorbike-driving  or a cell phone-chatting ninjas. This is because the cost of sunscreen is expensive. Actually, what are the points of using so many products to look beautiful but actually the harder you try to change your look, you can look like deathly ill person. For me, you need to accept what you really look like because the real beauty comes from the inside. Once the insides are beauty, you will look naturally beauty physically. I would not say it is wrong but we need a self confidence and a little adoration about our look.