South Indians tweet photos of themselves to celebrate their brown skin

Last week, a 19-year-old Singapore-based student Tricia Ferdinandt, wrote a long thread about being South Indian on Twitter in which she complained that South Asian beauty is always portrayed as being light-skin oriented and dark skin is hardly ever seen. She then went on to propose a hashtag that people could use to celebrate being a South Indian.

This led South Indian people to start posting their own pictures on Twitter to showcase their pride in possessing dark skin and facial features typically associated with them. What’s even better is that even men decided to take part in the Twitter trend and posted photos of themselves in South Indian attire on social media.

Check out some of the most awesome tweets that used the hashtag #southindianandproud posted by social media users: