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Are darker skinned people considered dirtier than light skinned people?
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If you’re asking about the history of how people treated darker skinned people vs. lighter skinned people, there have been many misconceptions about why darker skinned people seem to be “dirtier”. The idea that “the darker the better” (or the more healthy) has often been used to make darker skinned people feel bad, as the idea of a darker complexion being healthier was used to justify why lighter skinned people were viewed as “superior”. At the same time, the darker skinned people who were labeled as “dirtier” were usually poorer and working as laborers, while lighter skinned people were usually people with higher economic status, so it’s likely that there were actually more harmful things happening to the darker skinned people, as their work caused them to sweat more and they had less access to clean water and the like.