Why is dark skin even worth mentioning, dear authors? It doesn't matter if it's a small remark or chapters of it like this. Can't you at least be original, accepting and not make characters / people start to hate their own skin colour? Beauty standards are not worth mentioning in a book/manga/... (Only critizing maybe). But publishing beauty standards like this (without any (self) reflection / unreflected) is like giving them to the next generation, inheriting them.
Why is dark skin even worth mentioning, dear authors? It doesn't matter if it's a small remark or chapters of it like this. Can't you at least be original, accepting and not make characters / people start to hate their own skin colour? Beauty standards are not worth mentioning in a book/manga/... (Only critizing maybe). But publishing beauty standards like this (without any (self) reflection / unreflected) is like giving them to the next generation, inheriting them.