Zhao had previously said on her website that she had set out to create "a diverse cast, many of which are beloved and dear to a third-culture kid like myself … a tawny-skinned minority of a Russian-esque princess; a disowned and dishonoured Asian-esque assassin; an islander/Caribbean-esque child warrior; a Middle-Eastern-esque soldier".
But although support among ordinary Bolivians remains strong, some of the indigenous leaders, environmentalists and activists who helped put Evo Morales in power have criticised him, arguing that his policies seem to favour the wealthy, light-skinned minority.
Although support among ordinary Bolivians remains strong, some of the indigenous leaders, environmentalists and activists who helped put Evo Morales in power have criticised him, arguing that his policies seem to favour the wealthy, light-skinned minority.
The BBC notes that "some of the indigenous leaders, environmentalists and activists who helped put Evo Morales in power have criticized him, arguing that his policies seem to favor the wealthy, light-skinned minority".
The fringes of the country, where the Berbers and various poor blacker-skinned minorities live, seem especially unhappy.
Historically, the dark-skinned, Muslim minority had been chosen as the favourite 'enemy within' of the succession of military regimes that governed Burma/Myanmar.
Light-skinned individuals are more vulnerable (Tucker and Goldstein, 2003), and regional differences in darker skinned ethnic minority populations may contribute to differences in rates, and to regional differences in the incidence gradient with TDI.
But nowhere is slavery still so systematically practiced as in Mauritania, an Islamic republic whose imams often use their interpretations of Sharia law to justify forcing the darker-skinned black African "Haratine" minority to serve as slaves to the Arabic Moor population.
And researchers say that within minority groups, darker-skinned girls are disciplined more harshly than light-skinned ones.
Probably only a minority of the most confident, committed and thick-skinned can persevere against savage opposition, she speculates.
"Is the problem white people, or is it the policy of this minority regime, which is largely made up of white-skinned people?
