Recently came across a photo of a Korean wedding around the year 1900. What struck me about the photo wasn’t just the attire or the expressions on the wedding attendees’ faces, but the color of their skin… it was rather dark and brown.
The only person who seemed pale was the bride — the girl with her face painted not-so-subtly white. Now here’s what the Korean athletes at the 2024 Paris Olympics looked like:
The Korean people became taller, paler, and look a lot different in the year 2024 than they did in 1900. Part of this may be due to lifestyle factors — the Koreans in the wedding photo were living in a rural area, spent a lot more time toiling for their daily rice under the sun. As a result, they’re darker. They’re more poor, too, and their more slender faces cause them to have sharper facial features. They almost look like an entirely different ethnic group…
So yes, brown skin can become light skin. Go to any Asian country and compare the faces of the elites living in the nation’s capital to those of the poor living in rural areas. You’ll find that the closer you get to the center of power and wealth, the paler the people become. The further you go from it, the darker they will be.
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