What color is white people's skin?

Question

When I was a little girl, my crayon box had a crayon called "flesh." It was the color of white people's skin. Now, of course, it would be inappropriate to call it that and imply that other people's skin color was somehow aborrant.

So what do we call our skin color?

Answer 1

I think the "politically correct" terms are as follows.
pigment challenged
anglo-saxon coloration
caucasion skin toned
prodigeously light complected

Answer 2

White

Answer 3

I'm going to say Peach, since Flesh is somehow wrong. Man, are we really that touchy nowadays? Maybe Crayola should make a new "Flesh" color and swirl in black, white, beige, red, tan, brown, yellow and any other "color" we call each other's skin.

Answer 4

How about we don't call it by a color, it's skin and there are a lot of different shades of pigment in the 'white' people alone. But to be politically correct I believe scientifically 'white' people actually have some sort of brown pigment to their skin? I may be incorrect but that is what I remember.

Answer 5

I suppose if you had to give them generic colour names, then white skin, black skin, yellow skin would do. After all, it's not as if crayons are used for any great degree of accuracy anyway, so the descriptions don't need to be accurate either.

Answer 6

That's a good question. What do black people call thier skin color? Maybe we should stick with black and white unless we as a collective decide to create new terms for all races and ethnicites. Its probably not a bad idea.

Answer 7

I always use to color people on my coloring books "flesh" And I still think that is the color of our (white people) skin.

Answer 8

White?

Answer 9

well regardless of skin color on the outside, everything looks the same on the inside, and it is mostly flesh colored along with red.

or crayola was started by white people.

i dont think there is a flesh color anymore. i think its called peach.

Answer 10

White flesh?