If light skin is so desirable, why do white people get tans?

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79. The Power

It's the power that comes from being white. Yes, white people get tans, but that does not stop them from being white. With being white, whether tanned or not, there is a power. There are a number of things that tanned white people do not have to go through that other races do have to go through.

In addition, views about tanning and the darker skin that comes from tanning have changed. I know this was a long time ago, but back in the days of Queen Elizabeth no rich person would have had a tan. During that time, darker skin was connected to poverty. So rich people like Queen Elizabeth tried to look as pale as possible to show they were rich and did not have to work.

I do not know when tanning became popular. It would be interesting to see if the changing views about work changed they way people viewed tanning. The views about work changed somewhere along the way? It may be the case that the changing views of work made tanning more acceptable. It may not be that tanning became acceptable because white people wanted to be black, but that they wanted to be seen as workers. At some point being a hard worker become a noble thing. Being tanned could show that one had been outside working.