i never understood the obsession with skin color. white people wanna get darker and black people wanna get lighter.
I think many strive for that light-wood brown color. I don't think whites want to be black and blacks want to look like whites, but I'm sure people that are Irish-white and Bernie Mac-black want to be closer to the middle lol
As a light skin dude with dark hair, it's kind of a curse. I look a lot hairier than I really am because of the contrast in hair color with my skin. And it's obvious when I miss a spot shaving my face.
I think the desire for dark skinned folks to be lighter is a social and historic thing. I guess you could call it racist? At least for Indians, darker skinned folks were seen as Untouchables in the caste system. And with that came the stigma of being uneducated and getting crappy jobs and living in poverty. And being treated like shit. I'm not sure how pervasive that thought process is now but it seems like white SJWs made a "race" thing and say Western beauty standards are to blame for all non-whites wanting to change their features to "White" features. Hair/skin/eye color, clothing/fashion, etc.
I like being the skin color and hair color I am because when the inevitable Race War breaks out, I'll just jump sides; whichever one is winning. One day I'm Greek or Armenian, the next I'm Mexican, the other I'm just a white dude with dark hair, and on another day I'm just a light-skin Indian.