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Thread #117020   Message #2519435
Posted By: GUEST,lox
18-Dec-08 - 08:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: Your cultural heritage- is it important?
Subject: RE: BS: Your cultural heritage- is it important?
Yes azizi we do - and I personally am just about as descriptive with all sorts of skin and have thankfully just about rid myself of my inhibitions on the subject.

But white includes pale white, milky white, "brown", freckled, "dark" (all still descriptive of white skin).

So I'll mix and match terms.

John was a light skinned black guy,

Fred was a dark skinned white guy.

Bill and george are an albino white guy and an albino black guy respectively.

All in the name of practical descriptive usefulness.