In countries such as the UK, the US, parts of western Europe, their fashion industries perhaps need to use more non-white ethnic models because their countries are made up of so many ethnic groups. In countries such as China, India, regions in Southeast Asia, where there are mostly Asians, they tend to use Asian models(Japan is the exception, their Nippon Vogue often use white models for covers), just because the readers do like to see Asian models, they like to see themselves being represented, and that sells magazines. It's a global village, but I would like to see in a bookstore, different magazines from all over the world, and they each celebrate beauties of their own people. But in western Europe, where so many different ethnic groups live together, in their fashion magazines, it makes sense to see more non white ethnic models, as oppose to only seeing white models. I am not talking about role model, and I believe this subject never meant to talk about fashion models as role model, as I stressed before, it's about work, job opportunities for models working in Europe and the US.

I saw this film on You Tube yesterday but when I went back today to show it to a friend, it had gone.What is that about?

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Black models have more work opportunities on runways in Singapore, it seems, I researched and found quite a significant numbers of black or darker skin ethnic models working the runway.