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In darkest Africa, both men and women think lighter skin is more beautiful.

All-black novelty issue is a big hit.

Editor thinks beautiful white women "kind of look all alike."

Vogue Italia editor in chief: If readers don’t like it, it’s their problem.

Fair skin is in.

Modeling exec: "According to the magazines, black models don’t sell."

White girls "suit the Indian palate."

Shops sell illegal skin creams because so many immigrants want them.

Designers insist on artistic right to choose color and body shapes that match fashion styles.

Plans to set up agency in Kenya to recruit black models.

Africans continue to regard light skin as more attractive.

First runner-up was also of Filipino descent.

Mexican audience shows meaning of "macho": boos U.S. woman in beauty contest.

Africa likes its models much heftier than the Western fashion industry does.

Launches campaign highlighting dangers of popular skin-lightening products.

A trait valuable for recognizing kin.

Discrimination the norm in India.

White standards of beauty "wreaking psychological and physical havoc" on Africans.

Some take it amiss that a black woman has been named queen of Viking heritage festival.

Indian men use skin cream to make themselves look whiter.

America is now home to Miss Vietnam, Miss Ethiopia, and Miss Liberia beauty pageants.

Pampering polygamists.

Asian women are at pains to whiten their skin.

African women pay a price for trying to look white.

Bolivia is divided between its western, Indian region and its eastern, white one.