More white skin please...
Since the updates that have changed and added more dark skintones there are so few fair ones, and out of them even fewer are "normal" looking caucasian skin tones, the others are unnatural looking or...
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Caucasian skin tones actually come in a range that can go from alabaster white to dark chocolate. It always baffles me when people refer to Caucasians as strictly white skinned. If you say Caucasian you refer to race as it is defined and it goes beyond just skin colour and implies other physical characteristics like hair type, eye colour and shape, etc. If you think about it all races come in a range of skin colours from white to dark if we take in to consideration conditions like albinism. That being said the issue I have with the lighter coloured skins in game is that they kind of glow. Because of this I rarely use them and most of my white sims are slightly tanned.
This is a side effect of how governments, particularly the US but also Australia, organize people. In the US, "White/Caucasian" is a group you self-identify as on forms and stuff. They are paired together from childhood, even if the reality is "people from spain are caucasian". In the US, "Caucasian" literally means "White American" and there is no further thought/purpose to the term. It is not expressly the same as the outdated racial classification.
Likewise, a lot of institutionalized racism leads people to conclusions like "spanish people and everyone in the middle east are two sets of brown people" which...is...not accurate, and both are also considered caucasian regardless.
It's similar to when people in America use the term "African American" to mean black. It's just general day-to-day ignorance of what you're actually saying, and usually comes from a place of trying to be accurate, as we had a period where it was considered questionable to simply refer to someone as black and everyone over-compensated with "African American", and a bunch of people started using it to refer to literally anyone black- even if they weren't american! By mistake or ignorance, it was a thing. Nowadays we're back on simply using the term Black.
It's a very complicated thing, which is part of why the conversation on Sims 4 skintones is so hard to have- because not everyone has all this cultural context, and to some people, "But what about the lighter skins?" reads as "But what about the white people?". Unfortunately the OP reads a bit like the latter, but the former is a valid issue to address. The light skins in this game are a quality issue now, same as the dark skins were before.
Brown is not a race, it's a skin colour. I can understand people referring to Caucasians as white and Africans as black as long as they mean race. But when people start questioning your race based on your shade of skin colour is when things get weird for me. Brown Spanish people are still Caucasians or white whether they are in Europe or America. Africans with albinism are still black even though their skin is white. There are more things that define race than skin colour alone. I understand that you can't say black in America so they use the African American term for people of black race but it seems weird that it went so far that now only the whitest of white race are deemed as Caucasians.
I'm not sure you understood my reply.
