Black or white?

United States
July 30, 2009 12:55pm CST
young generations are very conscious of their skin color...some like to get white and some white people like to get tanned or even darker. hahaha...which skin tone do you belong? Thank God I was created fair.
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• New Zealand
31 Jul 09
Im multiracial no not black and white but my father is English,Dutch and a little bit Italian and my mother is Polynesian with a bit of German and Chinese. As a result I have olive color skin. As you can see in my avatar. However many people assume im just white. Infact on holiday an older man on our tour bus who was a bit racist sadly would say nasty comments about the locals and yet was really nice to me. When I was young I was incredibly jealous of all my friends because they were all pale. But as I matured I realized skin color doesn't really matter and in fact there are many advantages to having olive skin. I am often accepted by people of other nationalities and they often think I am one of their own. E.g Asians think im at least 1/2 asian, when I was travelling the French thought I was French ect.. I worked at a Spanish restaurant and customers from South America thought I was from their country and as I have dark hair probably Irish customers asked what part of Ireland I was from. This makes it easier travelling around the world. I think people should embrace their skin color, as there isn't much they can do about it. If we all looked the same life wouldn't be as colorful or interesting. I think Im quite lucky Im not really dark but I dont have to spend a fortune on tanning products like my friends.