This is true to a certain degree. It depends where the person is. A light skinned person in a country that is traditionally full of brown people will have privilege within that country and culture. But take that same person and put them in a place like America and they lose much of that privilege, though they always have more than a darker person. There are other factors as well such as how well they assimilate or speak English or have an accent. Skin color is not the only factor though it is the most defining.

My family by marriage is Albanian. My husband is as white as any European. In Kosovo, he has privilege from that. But in America, he loses much of that privilege because of his thick accent, much less than perfect English, his inability to assimilate well, and his religion (Muslim). Those factors often overrode his white skin when we lived in America and he had many unnecessary problems with Karens and cops purely based on their assumptions based on him because they heard the accent and knew he was an outsider. Of course, his skin still gave him privilege above someone with darker skin in some ways. But fear from encountering further serious problems from such prejudice led us to leave America.

In Kosovo, he is among his own people and hasn't had any of the problems he had in America which were clearly from prejudice. Yet, if we would travel to other areas in Europe, we would encounter similar if not worse problems than we had in America. There is a lot of prejudice against Albanians.

Of course, Albanians themselves come in different shades of skin color. I have seen them judge each other, such as a woman is prettier when she is paler. It is a terrible worldwide affliction.

I agree so much with your articles. I literally am face palming myself when I read some of the comments. Some people will just never learn.