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Originally posted by White_Chocolate
I always start laughing hilariously when the subject of tanning comes up. . .
Why are white people trying to get dark?
What's wrong with your original color?
Maybe I just don't get the whole tanning thing. Toasting the skin cells with 'harmless' ultraviolet rays on purpose. One of my friends, who is biracial, tans so that people can tell that she's biracial. I just shake my head.
Then again, I guess being black, you don't have to worry about stuff like that. I'm already tan. Lucky me, huh?
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The Pakastani woman I used to work with couldnt understand it either. She was like, "in a culture where the media has historically put such an overemphasis on "whiteness" as being the desired, why do you as a white kid, try to get sun?" And ya know, I could never explain it to her. I have since eliminated my exposure to the sun. Skin cancer is prevalant in mi familia. Plus, I dotn wanna look like a wallet when I am 50. Coem on, skin isnt supposed to make a sound when you walk. My aunt was always in the sun and she looked like she used to bob for apples in a deep fat fryer. I never could tell if she was original recipie, or extra crispy. My friend Les has fake baked so much she now looks like a photo negative. She has that healthy orange glow.