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What I am about to write has been an issue for some time but now it has gone to the level of out of control. I am an Irish woman. I am American, I am proud but I am also Irish. Very Irish. New Irish. I have very fair skin, green eyes, dark blonde hair that I lighten, faint freckles, and cool toned to the max. So here is the big deal. I am sick, angry, annoyed, and fed up of people insulting my skin color. I get jokes-comments nonstop such as: You should be a cast member in Twilight, all you need is pink contacts and you'd look albino, do you ever see the sun, you really need a tan, you can blind someone with your skin, wow! your the palest person I have ever met and I thought I was pale, YOUR SO PALE, your practically translucent, TANNING BED!, you really should get a spray tan, etc etc etc etc. Some of these comments are from complete strangers!! Last time I checked it was not acceptable to insult others skin color. So when has it become ok to insult those who are from Celtic or other light countries that have a low sun strength? Which equals lower color pigmentation or melanin. I cannot help it. I cannot help where my family is from. When I went to Ireland this past summer, I looked like any other local. In the skin color, the eyes, the face shape, it was clear I was Irish. I could wear a bathing suit and not get laughed at. What makes me more ill about this is that I am from the Mid-Atlantic. It's not like I am in Florida getting made fun of and even if I was, that still is not ok with me. My Irish friends tell me to ignore peoples ignorance or tell them to f-off, my husband tells me he loves it and that to him I look like an angel, but still it get's under my fair skin. So my ValSecret is respect everyone's skin color, where they come from, their culture...whatever it takes. Respect. This country is a melting pot of lovely heritages from all over the world. Instead of picking on someone, ask where their family is from, learn a thing or two, but never insult anyone's color, light-dark or anywhere in between.
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