Why Is My Dark Skin Inferior To Your Light Skin?
<p>I was 13, she was 11. I had light skin, hers was dark.</p>
<p>Because my skin tone made people deem me more attractive than her, she was obsessed with using Fair & Lovely, a popular skincare brand from India that lightens your skin.</p>
<p>My cousin grew up in Nepal. I grew up in Japan.</p>
<p>Almost every day when my sister and I passed a Japanese school, the children would yell, “<em>Gaijin! gaijin! (Foreigner),</em> should I rub some mud on your ugly, brown face?”</p>
<p>But in Nepal, I was light-skinned and thus a source of adoration.</p>
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