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[[File:tan 5584.jpg|link=SpongeBob SquarePants|frame| Strangely enough, being sun bleached is considered the [[Anvilicious|"ultimate tan".]]]]
{{quote|''"Gotta keep the tan up. It's not a skin color, it's a lifestyle, Brian. You wouldn't know that because you're white as a ghost. You're haunting this house with your whiteness, Brian."''
|'''Stewie Griffin''', ''[[Family Guy]]''}}
▲{{quote|''"Gotta keep the tan up. It's not a skin color, it's a lifestyle, Brian. You wouldn't know that because you're white as a ghost. You're haunting this house with your whiteness, Brian."''|'''Stewie Griffin''', ''[[Family Guy]]''}}
While fair skin is usually a common beauty standard around the world, paleness can also be seen as unattractive in North America and parts of Europe.
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Not to be confused with [[Dark Is Not Evil]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* The famous (and [[Values Dissonance|somewhat sleazy]]) ad for Coppertone sun lotion features a nicely tanned little blonde girl<ref>a young [[Jodie Foster]] believe it or not</ref> having her swim trunks pulled down by a dog, exposing her pasty white buttocks. The ad's slogan? "Don't Be a Paleface!"
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== [[Live
* Joked with in an episode of ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'' when Venus, Andy and Andy's visiting sister get to talking about skin color:
{{quote|'''Venus:''' You know, I'm not really black, I'm sort of cocoa brown. '''[points to Andy]''' And you're beige. '''[points to Johnny Fever]''' But that dude is ''white.''}}
* On ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'', Paige and her boyfriend (who is also [[Hot for Student|her teacher]]) are in the park enjoying themselves and they ridicule a guy's pale white legs—and then they later find out it's her other teacher Mr. Simpson.
* ''[[Cheers]]''. Carla used to mock Diane Chambers for being whitebread, and mocked her as "whitey". Diane would defend her pale skin as "alabaster". Then came Lilith (who was played by Bebe Neuwirth, whose real skin tone was very pale.)
* ''[[Frasier]]''. Lilith's paleness was often mocked, and even [[Lampshaded]] by Lilith herself late in the series in the episode "Lilith Needs a Favor".
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* Professional wrestler [[Sheamus]] plays up his Irish heritage with his pale skin. This makes him stand out amongst almost every other Caucasian [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] wrestler, most of whom have tanned skin. Of course, [[Sheamus]]'s skin is often poked fun at on wrestling online forums.
** [[Sheamus]] has said in interviews that he actually ''tried'' to get a tan early in his pre-WWE career, but would just turn red then back to white. Realizing that his pale skin and red hair gave him a unique look, however, he decided to just go with that.
** Not just on forums, now. On a recent{{when}} episode of ''Raw'', [[John Cena]] referred to him as a big tub of mayonnaise.
** Also mentioned in NXT.
** [[Edge]] has also gotten a chance to poke fun at [[Sheamus]]'s paleness, remarking that ''Raw'' had apparently "been taken over by an evil Ronald McDonald!"
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** Randy Orton [[In-Joke|mocked]] Christian for continuing to use fake tanner in the HD era, as it makes his skin appear yellow.
* FCW's Paige (also known as Brittani Knight from ''Pro Wrestling EVE'') has opted for the no tan look as well which fits her Anti-Diva character. She previously tanned normally in ''EVE'' and ''SHIMMER''.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* Back in the day, after the circulation of media footage of [[Bill Clinton]] jogging, [[David Letterman]] for awhile poked fun at Bill's "pasty white thighs", and even tried to foster its [[Memetic Mutation]]. [[Luciano Pavarotti]] declined to sing the words on the show.▼
* [[Land Down Under|Australia]] has a predominately white population, and one of the world's highest rates of skin cancer.▼
** That may have more to do with that whopping hole in the ozone layer nearby over Antarctica.▼
* Averted with [[Christina Hendricks]]. She's [http://www.buzzpirates.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/christina-hendricks1.jpg incredibly fair-skinned,] but she has never been described as anything less than gorgeous.▼
* Nicola Roberts of the British pop group [[Girls Aloud]] was often derided as "[[Hollywood Homely|the ugly one]]" in the press because her extremely pale skin and bright red hair made her stand out [http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44933000/jpg/_44933710_pa_girlsaloud466.jpg in stark contrast] to her bandmates' tanner complexions. It's mostly abated by now as she has used her paleness as the basis for starting and marketing a fairly successful make up range for pale women.▼
* This appears to be the case in ''Victoria's Secret'' campaigning and marketing where usually black, Latina, or mixed-race models like Tyra Banks, Gisele Bündchen, Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Ana Beatriz Barros, Izabel Goulart, Isabeli Fontana received more attention and publicity than their more "conventional" Northern European counterparts. And on annual fashion shows they wore the most posh constumes, always had maximum walks and usually walked either in the beginning or in the end of they show. This practice seemed to finally cease when Behati Prinsloo, Candice Swanepoel, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Erin Heatherton and Lily Aldridge joined in 2009-2010 (although they still had to wait years to become Angels, while Black/Korean Chanel Iman became one immediately as soon as she got signed). But than again guess who stole the show in 2010? Ale & Lima, who else?▼
** Alessandra Ambrosio and Adriana Lima are the two most famous of all the Angels, possibly because they were given so much attention in the beginning. The other models are popular, yes, but Ale and Adri are the two most well-known. Of course they were given the most promotion.▼
* Jazz singer Renee Geyer was advised to release an album without a photograph of her on the cover, since she was very white and the music genre she was singing for was black dominated. She refused to listen to the advice and the album tanked.▼
** Similarly with Tom Jones (or so I heard).▼
** [[Bobby Caldwell]] was given the same advice and followed it when he first appeared as a major artist. Many of his new fans were not aware of his ethnicity until they saw his music videos or live shows.▼
* Light skinned Indigenous Australians have been discriminated against by anti-discrimination hiring policies, such as those for an Indigenous liaison officer. One woman was turned down for the job because she was too light skinned, and the (white) employer thought a darker skinned Aboriginal would be better, despite the fact that Indigenous people identify each other as Indigenous through their connection to their people and their ancestral lands, rather than the pantone shade of their skin. [http://zeroatthebone.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/racial-identity-cannot-be-determined-by-casual-bystanders/ See here.]▼
* Averted in [http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/05/13/asia.whitening/ China]. As of 2011 whitening products for women was still a billion dollar industry.▼
** In the 80's, being fat and white implied being rich and powerful, because you didn't have to work in the fields and you had enough money to eat meat often.▼
*** ''Women'' are expected to remain thin enough to see through.▼
== [[Stand-Up Comedy]] ==
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== [[Web Animation]] ==
* In one ''[[Teen Girl Squad]]'' comic in the ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' universe, when Cheerleader complains that she wanted to go to "Coach Conrad's Sit-Up Camp For Shirtless Boys" instead of ending up at "Cosplayover Camp," Science Fiction Greg says, "Oh, I can take my shirt off!" Cheerleader is instantly charred in the "Blinding Voip" that reflects off Sci-Fi Greg's pasty white skin.
** Which is an [[Informed Deformity]] of course, since the whole cartoon [[Stylistic Suck|looks like uncolored stick figures on white paper]].
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** Except for Toki. He tans quite nicely, which compliments the fact that he's the only member of the band who's in shape.
* Page image comes from an episode of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', where Craig Mammalton (a hilariously overtanned dugong) comes to town and everyone is in a tanning frenzy in order to be popular enough to get into his party. Spongebob ends up tanning ''too much'' and becoming "sun bleached", and the episode is about his efforts to hide this fact {{spoiler|until his secret is revealed at the party and Craig, recognizing his pale state for what it is, worships the ground upon which Spongebob walks for his devotion to tanning}}.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* Back in the day, after the circulation of media footage of [[Bill Clinton]] jogging, [[David Letterman]] for awhile poked fun at Bill's "pasty white thighs", and even tried to foster its [[Memetic Mutation]]. [[Luciano Pavarotti]] declined to sing the words on the show.
▲* [[Land Down Under|Australia]] has a predominately white population, and one of the world's highest rates of skin cancer.
▲** That may have more to do with that whopping hole in the ozone layer nearby over Antarctica.
▲* Averted with [[Christina Hendricks]]. She's [http://www.buzzpirates.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/christina-hendricks1.jpg incredibly fair-skinned,] but she has never been described as anything less than gorgeous.
▲* Nicola Roberts of the British pop group [[Girls Aloud]] was often derided as "[[Hollywood Homely|the ugly one]]" in the press because her extremely pale skin and bright red hair made her stand out [http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44933000/jpg/_44933710_pa_girlsaloud466.jpg in stark contrast] to her bandmates' tanner complexions. It's mostly abated by now as she has used her paleness as the basis for starting and marketing a fairly successful make up range for pale women.
▲* This appears to be the case in ''Victoria's Secret'' campaigning and marketing where usually black, Latina, or mixed-race models like Tyra Banks, Gisele Bündchen, Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Ana Beatriz Barros, Izabel Goulart, Isabeli Fontana received more attention and publicity than their more "conventional" Northern European counterparts. And on annual fashion shows they wore the most posh constumes, always had maximum walks and usually walked either in the beginning or in the end of they show. This practice seemed to finally cease when Behati Prinsloo, Candice Swanepoel, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Erin Heatherton and Lily Aldridge joined in 2009-2010 (although they still had to wait years to become Angels, while Black/Korean Chanel Iman became one immediately as soon as she got signed). But than again guess who stole the show in 2010? Ale & Lima, who else?
▲** Alessandra Ambrosio and Adriana Lima are the two most famous of all the Angels, possibly because they were given so much attention in the beginning. The other models are popular, yes, but Ale and Adri are the two most well-known. Of course they were given the most promotion.
▲* Jazz singer Renee Geyer was advised to release an album without a photograph of her on the cover, since she was very white and the music genre she was singing for was black dominated. She refused to listen to the advice and the album tanked.
▲** Similarly with Tom Jones (or so I heard).
▲** [[Bobby Caldwell]] was given the same advice and followed it when he first appeared as a major artist. Many of his new fans were not aware of his ethnicity until they saw his music videos or live shows.
▲* Light skinned Indigenous Australians have been discriminated against by anti-discrimination hiring policies, such as those for an Indigenous liaison officer. One woman was turned down for the job because she was too light skinned, and the (white) employer thought a darker skinned Aboriginal would be better, despite the fact that Indigenous people identify each other as Indigenous through their connection to their people and their ancestral lands, rather than the pantone shade of their skin. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131210014700/http://zeroatthebone.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/racial-identity-cannot-be-determined-by-casual-bystanders/ See here.]
▲* Averted in [http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/05/13/asia.whitening/ China]. As of 2011 whitening products for women was still a billion dollar industry.
▲** In the
▲*** ''Women'' are expected to remain thin enough to see through.
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[[Category:Characters and Casting]]
[[Category:Race Tropes]]
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