Describing our skin colour....

This is confusing....My Father Had white Features......Black hair , Hazel-green eyes , etc....etc...etc....His Skin was Redd. even in the Winter ( He was Cherokee ) But for the Sake of argument....he would write Caucasian on Driver's liscense stc, etc. Probably because Native Americans are Considered To be Bad people.( at least my Mom's Mother thought so ) She didn't like Native Americans at all. But she didn't like me too much either ( I think ) Because I have pretty much My Dad's same Features except I am Much lighter Skinned then him. But I do not have pale / ghostly white Skin even though for arguement's sake....I fill out forms as Caucasian as well. This ( the Confusion ) is taught. It is a sickness in the world. We place too much Value on Skin color! The good news is: we can Be re-taught in our thinking...to go Deeper then the color of the Skin , and see the person for their Talents and Gifts. Light up the Darkness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree with you. When I look at my skintone, it's more of a white/peach. But then again, there is my sister, who has more of a tannish colored skintone. I think that people have no imaginations when it came to actually describing skintones, so they took the easy way out and just gave them each one name. lol. I'm probably wrong, but hey, that's my theory.

I haven't heard White-skinned used in my region. There are a few that I am used to though. There are light-skinned people, they can be separated into three groups; high-yellow, red bone, and brown-skinned, all pertaining to the tint of their skin. Then you go to the darker tones; you have chocolate, which I am as you can see, then there are the blurple people. I guess most won't know that one, that is more so used in my family. That is reserved for people who are so dark, that they are almost blue or purple. I haven't heard any separations for Caucasian people, but then again there is very little variation in their skin tones, except for those that tan.