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I struggle to believe that the Afghan girl picture would have been anywhere near as popular as it was/is if it was B&W https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Gir

• prionassembly 6y ago
  But this is because of strange racial issues. Americans expect "Muslims" to all be uniformly brown (I remember circa 9/11 the slur "sand n#$%r" was common) , but Afghans and Iranians have whiter skin and often eyes that are not black. And then we decode that as "this is beauty and it's surprising that there is beauty among these people".