Mr. Tea
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well doesn't darkness, or redness of skin for whites, denote class, ie the implication is that you are tanned as you work outside as a labourer, while the less tanned are more bureacrats and uper class. It's quite weird as it also implies that darkness of skin is absolutely because of your social standing, so it also implies that it's something that comes with your experiences in life, nonsense of course, although the sun does affect melatonin in all humans.
Well that used to be the case in Europe a couple of hundred years ago - but times changed (as is their wont) and most people, of all social classes, started working indoors, and it became fashionable to go on holiday to hot and sunny places. Hence a tan, which once carried the stigma of the farmhand, became a symbol of beauty and sophistication. Then it became a symbol of people from Essex roasting themselves on the beaches of Marbella, and you had 'heroin chic', the wasted indie/'emo' look and so on...coming and going in cycles, just like other fashions.