Proud of the Brown Skin I’m In

In my culture, the lighter you are the better. But I think my brown skin is beautiful.

Nusrat Nisa
ZORA
Published in
5 min readSep 2, 2020

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Joyful dark-skinned South Asian woman outside looking at the camera.
Photo: Jessica Lia/Getty Images

There are more than 650 different types of ethnicities in the world. So many colors define us and our opinions about these shades vary just as much as our skin color does.

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Nusrat Nisa
ZORA
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