Comments on: Reality doesn’t give a damn about your feelings https://didacticmind.com/2017/08/reality-doesnt-give-damn-about-your.html Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Sat, 29 Aug 2020 20:30:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Didact https://didacticmind.com/2017/08/reality-doesnt-give-damn-about-your.html#comment-2567 Sun, 06 Aug 2017 13:38:52 +0000 #comment-2567 In reply to Tom Kratman.

Good point, sir. That was and remains the case where I come from also, for the same reasons.

The exceptions from South Asia tend to be the mestizo types, i.e. the Anglo-Indians. The mixed-race and mixed-caste results of the British colonials mingling with the natives were in many ways outcasts in both communities- never quite white enough for the English, and never quite dark enough for the Indians. This matches the experiences of other mixed-race groups worldwide, from what I can see.

]]> By: Tom Kratman https://didacticmind.com/2017/08/reality-doesnt-give-damn-about-your.html#comment-2566 Sat, 05 Aug 2017 17:02:30 +0000 #comment-2566 There are some reasons for the universality or near universality of the preference for whiteness, or lightness, that don't have a necessary genetic component. Instead, it can be about class. We honky types often don't realize it, but black folks can sunburn and tan, too. Now who, in Africa, say, got sunburnt and darker? Peasants and slaves, to include female peasants and slaves, working in fields, exposed to the sun. Who did not get so dark? The upper crust / aristocracy. They and their women tended to stay indoors or, if they went out, did so with someone to hold a parasol overhead. Hence, to be lighter was to be better because of the sun and avoidance of same.

I suspect, anyway.

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