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In one study it was reported that darkskinned, veiled, pregnant women, their infants, and elderly in residential care had the highest vitamin D deficiency of subjects studied [94].
Potential impacts of direct mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic 2009
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He had never lived outside the Bronx, and years later he told friends that it had been difficult to be a darkskinned Italian-American in these communities.
The Great Divide 2009
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He had never lived outside the Bronx, and years later he told friends that it had been difficult to be a darkskinned Italian-American in these communities.
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He had never lived outside the Bronx, and years later he told friends that it had been difficult to be a darkskinned Italian-American in these communities.
Paul Gottfried’s Encounters and the Heritage Foundation 2009
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(McCain and his wife in actuality had adopted a darkskinned child from Sri Lanka or Bangladesh.)
Think Progress » Snow: There Is Too Much Focus on Kidnapped U.S. Soldiers 2006
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The expulsion was popular but clearly racist; most of the deportees were darkskinned people from the southern Caucasus region.
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Yep, and if Al Sharpton thinks that Mitt might be a Right Wing nutjob who would happily stampede this country back into the 19th century, and that his ultra conservative, pro-business, usta-think-darkskinned-people-were-cursed Church is a danger to our Democracy, he should find a more sensitive way to say it.
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Obviously she was not a very darkskinned individual, and yet some people maintain the artifice that pretends that lighter-coloured skin in and of itself is an adequate shield to protect some people of African descent from social discrimination and human rights abuse.
Worth 1.000 words Marian 2008
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"Her so-called child would be maybe sixty or seventy by now," the darkskinned boy pointed out.
Armageddon's Children Brooks, Terry 2006
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For example, human skin color is extremely mutable even over a few centuries, such as American or southern African blacks becoming lightskinned or Sudanese Arabs becoming darkskinned.
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