Enter light skinned mixed race people who’s skintone quickly varies from light to quite dark depending on UV exposure while having a very high resistance to sun burns.
Source: I am VERY mixed race and go from fair skinned in February to dark cinnamon by July.
I’m a white guy, pasty as fuck in the winter with dark brown hair. I tan a little bit, but what really trips me out is my hair going from brown to blonde over the summer
One of my cousins (second) is like that. He also has hazel eyes and very sharp (think Sweden) facial features, but he tans as dark as I do. By the end of the summer, he looks like an Arian brotherhood frat boy wearing blackface. Part of the ancestry we share is Dutch, French and northern Italian, but my features are not as sharp because I have Native American and African (West and North) from my maternal grandfather’s ancestry, where his side has Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
Yeah, my family is a new world hodge podge.
Yeah my grandparents were all the children of European immigrants. It’s so far back and so mixed up and irrelevant to my daily life that I don’t even know. Except I love pierogis. I guess that’s the Ukrainian/Polish shining through.
That sounds pretty awesome! Like a mini super power. I’m envious!
I like it.
My wife and I have basically the same skin tone in the winter but when we go to the beach, I’ll tan into a sort of light honey (amber) color and she will turn into a boiled lobster followed be her skin literally falling off. The envy is real.
I always like to offer polite compliments when I find an enviable trait.
Me a guy in southern Europe:
I have been asked if I was part Mexican at times when I have been working an outside job long enough to get a natural tan.
Funny, we could say the same about Africans bleaching their skin.
In that it comes from a place if self hatred. Wether bronzing or bleaching, it comes from a want to meet unrealistic beauty standards and a disdain from ones own self.
Of course some people will laugh at people who bronze their skins, but get sad when people bleach their skin. This is because they are “the other”.
Fuck all that bullshit. Self-hatred is self-hatred and it’s never funny, unless you’re a sociopath.
Don’t get me wrong, there is a growing trend of bleaching. But the way you said it was spicy so I responded with Charlemagne (who himself has been accused of skin bleaching).
