The result was that British troops were sent to Iraq with boots that melted in the heat and went on patrol in the south of the country in vulnerable soft-skinned Land Rovers.
In the other, Ms. Yang's richest client at Diamond Love deployed dozens of love hunters to find the most exquisite fair-skinned beauty in the land, even as he fretted about being conned by a bai jin nu, or gold digger.
But over time, the fair-skinned group created an economic system that took labour, resources and land from darker-skinned people with little compensation.
But for a pale-skinned Celt, hailing from a land in which the highest recorded temperature was a temperate 33C back in 1887, extremely hot does not even come close to articulating the ring conditions that day.
And now she is a southerner in a northern land, a conspicuous dark-skinned outsider, with traditional swirling scars all over her face, trying to raise two sons and two daughters.
The film, set in the mid-1950s, follows the team as it competes in Texas and other American states, at a time when segregation was still the law of the land, including for brown-skinned visitors from Mexico.
Docking on land, they encounter hostile black-skinned natives before escaping back to the ocean.
She understands that she's dust, not unlike the Depression-era Okie dust of Woody Guthrie's "Dust Bowl Ballads": She's dust whipped across continents to land in, of all places, Ohio; dark-skinned dust to be spurned, shunned or boot-heeled; immigrant Muslim dust that is feared but also fears.
The topics of the stories range from the confusions of a bicultural and bilingual childhood to the struggles of a dark-skinned woman to recognize her own beauty in the land of Barbie dolls and blond beauty queens".
It's not hard to imagine the fair-skinned, frail Watts feeling isolated, a stranger in a strange land.
The population is divided into two groups: the Orerines ("the people of the land") and the Ferines ("the people of the sea"), a race of fair-skinned, light-haired people with the ability to live underwater, with the tensions between them serving as the backdrop to the game's plot.
