Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The most desirous skin color for the women that Saraswati interviewed was the white skin color of people of European descent.
2. Women in the study reported feeling more pressure to lighten their skin when they lived in the United States to gain more race privilege.
3. Skin lightening was practiced to avoid standing out as darker than other people and drawing unwanted attention.
4. Light skin color is the norm in Indonesia.
1. False
2. False
3. True
4. False
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