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Anonymous
>>37558 No, not really.
You see, just about 200 or so years ago, pale skin was a mark of higher status. The peasentry worked the fields and thus was tanned. As such, whiteness was a mark of those who had others to do work for them.
With the advent of the industrial revolution, tanned skin instead became a mark of those who had time for leisurly outdoor activities, such as camping, hunting, going to the shore, etc etc, and pale, livid skin because a mark of those who spent their days indoors, in factories or mines.
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