Jean-Pierre Ruiz's Page

Back in the Middle Ages, pale skin denoted nobility since only field workers (i.e., serfs) were tanned as a result of spending their entire day working outside. Hence, the shade of your skin became a sign of the class to which you belonged (as if the clothes you wore, or the jewelry you adorned your body with, the carriage you rode, the language you spoke, etc., wasn’t sufficient). Today, most of us have been scared into a frenzy of being exposed to the “harmful” rays of the sun less we burn to…See More

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