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Given that the article is about China and that the OP wrote about global trends you can probably remove 'white' from your list of descriptors...
by andperseand 8y ago
Given that the article is about China and that the OP wrote about global trends you can probably remove 'white' from your list of descriptors...
- greglindahl 8y agoI don't know what the person you're responding to meant, but you might want to have a chat with your Chinese friends about different skin colors. Not only do many cultures have a thing about lighter skin shades, even the 1920s US backlash against immigration was mostly about 'swarthy' southern Europeans, who weren't as lily-white as northern Europeans.
- vertex-four 8y agoInterestingly, in the non-predominantly-white countries I’ve lived in, lighter skin tones are desired heavily, and are often a class indicator. People will use creams with ingredients like mercury to attempt to lighten their skin colour.