Moomingirl wrote:
Ah Murihiku - you're one of
those are you? Those nicely tanned people who make fun of me just because I am pale? I used to get called 'milk bottle' during the summer at school (and this was by
other English people). Kinder people (usually older ones) refer to me as a 'typical English rose'. My old school friend just decided that I must be half vampire.
Oi, not me personally. For starters, I'm not in the habit of saying random things to complete strangers. Besides, I'd never make fun of you, Mooms ... well, aside from every other time that I've made fun of you ? but that's different.
As a (relatively) light-skinned Māori, people do comment that I'm fairly well tanned. It also means I don't get as many non-white comments as people with darker skin (like my sisters) sometimes do. It doesn't actually happen that often, but having lived here for over twenty years means that we've still copped it a few times.
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It is easy to go down into Hell;
Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide;
But to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air –
There's the rub, the task.
– Virgil, The Aeneid (Book VI)