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Originally Posted by Sun Belt
Side note: isn't it amazing how quickly skin will turn white in a period of 10,000 years!
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It's just the lack of sun. Skin is normally pretty fast at producing melanin anyway, but it doesn't mean you shouldn't protect your skin from the mighty sun. It just burns your skin when it's excessively exposed to it, which is unhealthy. That's why people in Africa carefully protect their skins, sometimes by some really cool stylish clothing, by the way.
Some people from northern Europe (including France) have bad difficulties with their skins as soon as they get in some intense sunlight. They constantly get sun-burnt instead of going darker as many of us naturally do. And bathing only makes it worse because water acts as magnifying glass, intensifying ultraviolet.
E.g. some of my cousins whose mom is from Brittany have had that annoying problem. We've never understood what it came from. Probably some particular part of their genome or something.
But again, even real dark skins get burnt by some real aggressive sunshine. Everybody must take care of their freaking skin.