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

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15. Power, wealth, and status--or rather, PERCEIVED power wealth and status--

among people in countries largely ground down and impoverished by colonialism, imperialism, geopolitical games among world powers, etc.

White skin is NOT "more attractive" to them, but people tend to hang around (and often to suck up to) those whom they perceive to have more power and wealth.

Surely you know of the famous experiments in which little black girls in this country identified white dolls as "good" and "pretty" and black dolls as "bad" and"ugly," not because of a natural preference for lighter skin but rather because the bigotry of the dominant culture had made them feel less worthy because of their race.