A certain white privilege is voluntarily given by non-white people.

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3. It is still about racism, only it is internalized racism.

If you tell black people in the US, for instance, for hundreds of years that they are lesser human beings, don't be surprised if they begin to believe it, themselves. This is also true of other non-white racial groups. They can easily see themselves as less-than the dominant white society.

The ideal of white superiority is a message conveyed as a subtext in world media.

Lighter skin color isn't intrinsically admired, it is seen as a ticket to opportunity. It used to be that for very light-skinned African-Americans that could pass for white. In Asia, as I understand it, the lighter skin represented a higher class of people that didn't have to work out in the sun and get darker.

Also, some Asian-American kids grow quite tall ...