MGM, I believe Rosetta was content with her appearance as it was. Not egotistical, but content. I talked with her a lot over coffee in the break room at work, and she was just an all-around bright and intelligent person who seemed to be quite happy with who and what she was, without being egotistical. Part of her beauty was her pleasant personality.

Ebbie makes a good point. How about white people who roast themselves on the beach in their back yards, or spend time and money in tanning salons, risking skin cancer to alter their fish-belly white complexions?

Funny bit: back in the mists of antiquity, when I was at scout camp one summer, there was a kid who went around without a shirt whenever he could because he envied the tan of another kid at camp. The other kid snickered to me one afternoon that "He doesn't know it, but I'm full-blooded Tulalip Indian. Do you think I ought to tell him?"

Don Firth