Talk:Merli/@comment-69.143.128.66-20120806071703/@comment-53539-20120806143842

I don't understand why there is discrimination against darker skin tones when they are thj ones who can bask in the sunlight and don't even feel a thing. Meanwhile, those of us with skin that is pale like cream burn up bright red... Then the next spoend the next week peeling horribly... Then in 20-40 years time might get the news we have contractied skin cancer because of exposure to the sun some 20 years ago which caused ur skin cells to mutate or something.

I knwo there is a medical condition that darker skin tones can suffer from if they don't have enough sunlight, but sunburn is more likely to be a impact on the paler skins then darker. And if you have a lack of a pigment in your skin (like me) because we have a ginger haired heritage (even my hair is brown and not ginger, I have some some of the genes in the DNA red haired normally have), you look like a lobster within hours of exposure.

I must admit though, the whole skin pigmentation issue has been something I've dread turning up for a while now since there is no way of predicting how this sort of thing will be recieved. It will always have potential for ugliness and even if you try and not discriminate others, others may take your words as discrimination. Hence we had that earlier bickering going on on the comments section with everyone having a go at someone because they didn't like what they said. :-/