Is there a skin tone that is a cut off for being white?

[JohnSmith]

Is my skin tone (not the features, the skin tone only) white? My body seems rather white (the nipples are even pink), but my face is a bit too dark.

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Looks to be in the range.

[Seya]

The "white" term does not mean anything, that's why I use the "European" term and sometimes Caucasian to refer to extra-European who have a europid phenotype.


Europeans can have a lot of skin colors, sometimes very dark (which can be found in North Africa), sometimes very pale or interdermediate.

yeah..that's why i don't get it...some europeans are darker then other non euro caucasians...

[Mortimer]

really difficult to tell but i would say IV on fitzpatrick scale is the most dark a european can get and that would be rare in europe only a few, most are I-III.

The following list shows the six categories of the Fitzpatrick scale,[5][6] in relation to the 36 categories of the older von Luschan scale:

Type I (scores 0–6) always burns, never tans (pale white; blond or red hair; blue eyes; freckles).
Type II (scores 7–13) usually burns, tans minimally (white; fair; blond or red hair; blue, green, or hazel eyes)
Type III (scores 14–20) sometimes mild burn, tans uniformly (cream white; fair with any hair or eye color)
Type IV (scores 21–27) burns minimally, always tans well (light brown)
Type V (scores 28–34) very rarely burns, tans very easily (brown)
Type VI (scores 35–36) never burns, always tans (deeply pigmented dark brown to darkest brown) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale

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[irishwinner]

I guess the Sicilian or Greek skin tone would be the cut off since they're the darkest people in Europe.