Oh, and just to add .... the fact that people back then equated fair skin with beauty wasn't because of "racism" or "supremacism" or crap like that. It was because of the same sort of celebrity worship that causes the hoi polloi to ape what the hollywooders do in this day and age, from stupid things like monocultural lawns and wall-to-wall carpeting right down to botox and weird fashion crazes and all the rest you see today. Humans were always like that. Chimps do it, too (see: Chimp grass ear fashion craze).

Oh, and just to add .... the fact that people back then equated fair skin with beauty wasn't because of "racism" or "supremacism" or crap like that. It was because of the same sort of celebrity worship that causes the hoi polloi to ape what the hollywooders do in this day and age, from stupid things like monocultural lawns and wall-to-wall carpeting right down to botox and weird fashion crazes and all the rest you see today. Humans were always like that.