light-skinned

The latter is actually a topic of concern: Most current emoji represent a caucasian or light-skinned individual, so the lack of emojis that represent other races is a problem.

For example in much of Asia it's often a beauty standard to have the lightest skin colour possible, for light-skinned people.

It's well-known that sun exposure for light-skinned people can cause cancer and sunscreen is advised.

Or the definition could be reversed and white people would be very light-skinned blacks.

In south india, I gradually saw the change happen; each generation of film actors was more light-skinned than their predecessors.

Whites would be light-skinned whites, mixed race people would simply be medium-skinned whites and most African Americans would be dark-skinned whites from their slave-owning fathers.

Both suspects are described as light-skinned men with heavy builds.

I always imagined them being light-skinned, since they were adapted to northern climates.

Isn't it glaringly obvious how Hispanic is used to pull in lots of people who would be Black, Native American or both under the One Drop Rule, ie 'light-skinned blacks'?

Georgians are literally light-skinned Caucasians.

> Although some ethnic distinctions existed during this period—such as the difference between light-skinned northern Europeans and sub-Saharan blacks—modern categories of race didn’t yet exist.

So dark-skinned people are more likely to need vitamin D supplements (whereas light-skinned people such as me are more likely to get skin cancer; there are pros and cons to having more or less melanin).

In India, “this preference for light-skinned spouses can be easily verified by the matrimonial columns of some of the Hindu dailies.

It would have been better if I said "light-skinned", yes.

The proof is on this comment, it's never enough data, the conclusion is always that you need more funding: >360,000 light-skinned Brits >Emphasis on “may” - this is hardly a gold standard study I didn't even need 1 subject, you need more than 360,000.