The History of Skin Color and Skin Tone

For much of our history in europe, europeans didn't think of themselves as a white race. And indeed, if you look at your skin, you're not white. I mean, none of us are actually white, literally. It was only really as we started to travel around the world a and we started to trade with a non western, non european people, that we started to realize that our skin colours were very different from others. When you link a specific group of people to a color that they believe to be more noble and more pure than other colours, that gives them a sense of supremacy. That supremacy of it is still playing out to day, that sense