How would you react if all people with light skin turned dark and people with dark skin turned light?

Question

Imagine waking up one morning to find your skin color has changed. How would you react if you learned that you had to live that way for the rest of your life? Please answer sincerely it's a legitimate question.

Answer 1

Well, I'd definitely get an education on the anatomy of racial preferentiation. But then, I am living in Southern India, where there are very few white people...so I understand what that's all about. People think that I am supporting my medical doctor husband, and the rumor around the village was that I financed the house. It is real, these misperceptions that people have about race. If they only knew that I grew up poor, milking goats on a Northern California rural property with wood stove for heating. Actually, I tell them and they don't believe me. They want to believe that I have a pool, a Caddilac, and a big house overlooking the ocean...dream on...but you bring about a very valid point. If people wore each other's shoes more often, we would be more informed and educated about the realities of our brothers and sisters. Thanks for the reminder. I deal with this every day...even though I am white...when my husband and I were traveling in Peru, they couldn't believe that a "black man" could actuall be a doctor?! Can you believe it? So our world needs more education.

Answer 2

Freak out. Possibly faint. See a doctor asap (though there'd be a hell of a line waiting!). And learn to live that way.

If you mean to bring up racism, here, you're wasting my time on me. I'm not a racist, and I really don't care what colour I am, even if I were the socially least priviliged colour. Of course, however, if all black people turned white and all white people turned black, then the black majority in occident would become the new powerful race, and racism would still exist, only that against the white.

Hey, after all, this turned out to be a very interesting question to prove that racism is in your mind, not in your skin. Good for you!

Answer 3

I used to wonder what I would look like if I was African / African - American, Asiatic, Latino, Semitic / Arabic, Australian Aborigine, Pacific islander, full Cherokee, whatever. I am open to other people of other nationalities & ethnic groups after spending most of my child - & teen years in a neighborhood that was pretty much WASP. I don't think that I'd be TOO shocked - Maybe at 1st.

Read the book " The Lathe of Heaven " by Ursula K. LeGuin.In it the protagonist, George Orr, had dreams that could affect the waking world. His psychotherapist, Dr. Haber, kept giving him suggestions to make his dreams turn the world into a semi -Utopia. One of them was to wipe out racial prejudice, & after he dreamed that into reality, everyone on earth had battleship - grey skins. Imagine what THAT would be like..... !! Read the book, & that chapter, for perspective.

Answer 4

Dr. Suess wrote a childs book about this that is GREAT check it out:

{{{"The Sneetches"
At its simplest, "The Sneetches" is a story about yellow bird-like creatures called Sneetches. However its most important part is the lesson it teaches about racism.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Some Sneetches have a green star on their belly, and in the beginning of the story the presence or absence of a star is the basis for discrimination. Sneetches who have stars on their bellies are part of the "in crowd", while Sneetches without stars are shunned and excluded.

In the story, a "fix-it-up" chap named McBean appears, driving a cart of strange machines. He offers the Sneetches without stars a chance to have them by going through his Star-On machine, for three dollars. The old star-bellied Sneetches are furious until McBean tells them about his Star-Off machine, costing ten dollars. This escalates, with the Sneetches running from one machine to the next,

"until neither the Plain nor the Star-Bellies knew
Whether this one was that one or that one was this one.
Or which one was what one or what one was who."
This continues until the Sneetches have no more money and McBean leaves them. At the end of the story the Sneetches learn that neither plain-belly nor star-belly Sneetches are superior, and they are able to get along and become friends.

The story is an obvious allegory for racism and discrimination, and teaches the lesson that all people are the same on the inside, despite outward differences. It can also be viewed as a satire on fashion following and keeping up with the Joneses.

Geisel, a perfectionist and sensitive artist, almost scrapped the manuscript when he realized the story may wrongfully be taken as an allegory for anti-Semitism, and the stars on the birds' bellies might be taken as the six-cornered stars Jews were forced to wear in public under Hitler's rule in Nazi Germany. His publisher convinced him to go ahead with the book. Today it is one of his most well-known stories, and was even adapted for a twelve-minute animated short a few years later.

"The Sneetches" is written in anapestic tetrameter, and – as is typical for Seuss books – follows the rhyme scheme and meter very strictly."}}}

Answer 5

Wouldn't care. I'll still act the same way. My personality would not change. But assuming my hair color changed too, I'd have to color it lol. I like my hair.

Answer 6

It would be a shock at first and I'd wonder if I was still dreaming. But, I'd realize it would be better to be darker since i wouldn't get sunburned anymore.

Answer 7

i'd freak out and call my dermatologist. other than that, nothing would change because i'm latina and we come in all colors so it wouldn't be like an identity crisis for me or anything.