[Seamus28233]

This gets asked all the time. I could point out that the desired coloring of Americans today seems to be of the Hispanic variety, which is why lighter-skinned black people are often preferred by other blacks, and pale-skinned whites risk all sorts of assorted nasties to tan. That’s my stylistic side talking. There is a definite shade that people are going for, somewhere in the middle of it all.

But to get more philosophical for a moment, racial prejudice has never been about color. I knew light-skinned blacks who were lighter than many of the Italians and Portugese I knew, yet were not accepted as readily. Race is a cultural state, not a physical state. The condition of race is much more important than the appearence of race. Hence the one drop rule in the old South.

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Name : Seamus28233, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, City : Charlestown, State : MA, Country : Venezuela, Occupation : Renaissance Man, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Lower class, 

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