[ACC25103]

I’m not sure where you’re getting what sounds to me like some very bizarre ideas. Where did you get the idea that there is a ‘global preference for lighter skinned women’? Actually in many cultures, including American Indian ones and the African ones of your own ancestry, lighter or pale skin is universally considered a sign of BAD HEALTH or sickliness, not beauty. Even among many Scandinavian peoples, they prefer darker or deeply tanned people to lighter ones. Jimi Hendrix said he never had so many women chasing after him or thinking of him as handsome as he did in Sweden, and this was before he was famous. Most of the places where people think of lighter skinned women as more beautiful are, in fact, those that are the most scarred by colonialism or racism. And that belief was (and sometimes still is) promoted as a form of social control over darker skinned people by teaching them to hate themselves and their own beautiful features. There was a very popular song in Mexico a few years ago, ‘Eres Piel Morena’ or ‘You Are Brown Skinned’ that was about how the darker women of Mexico needed to realize their own beauty and not fall for the lie that dark=ugly. It is still an issue that needs to be confronted and darker women need to see they can and are as beautiful as the blue eyed blondes Hollywood and Madison Avenue shoves down our throat all the time. In fact, even they are realizing that. How else do you explain the popularity of Naomi Campbell or Jennifer Lopez?

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