as it made her skin darker, and she preferred it lighter. She then went on to explain in quite strong terms how she hated dark skin, and how she didn't like her boyfriend at first who was from India because he had very dark skin.

Sitting next to her, with much darker skin, was another Indian-descended woman, and a Jamaican-descended woman with very dark skin indeed. :- I don't know what they thought of this outburst / expression of aesthetic preferences as to try and avoid hearing any more of it I concentrated on intensifying the discussion I was having with my Macedonian colleague about the history, politics and conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.

Anyway, can it be racist if an English Sikh rails about hating brown skin? Has anyone else experienced this?