->  >>  FV> Not always. It can just as easily and often be a
difference in skin
->  >> color,
->  >>  FV> religious belief, country, province, state, city,
street, eye color or
->  >>  FV> shape, fingernail length or lack thereof, sexual
preference, toenail
->  >>  FV> shape, breath, nose shape or just about anything
that can "justify"
->  >>  FV> someone as being less than human.

->  >> It's funny. Yesterday we talked to a guy who works in
->  >> one of the restaurants
->  >> and he said that the Thais never take of their cloths
->  >> to work on their tan.
->  >> They don't want to get more brown then they are. To be
->  >> as white as possible
->  >> is the finest for them to be.
->  >> I think that explains why they never take any cloths
->  >> off even when they go
->  >> for a swim and mostly they sit in the shadow.

->  BM> They likely have a low rate of skin cancer on that account, 
->  BM> too. 

->  Except that skin cancer tends to be a caucasian condition
->  anyway.

Yet more people of color die from it for lack of medical attention.

I had a malignant melanoma on my back in 1979 but caught the change in
the mole very early and had it cut off in a office visit for next to
nothing.

Leaving for another state the next day and asked by the doctor
if he wanted them lab checked I declined citing my knowledge of my
outlook if it had metasticised.

He did the lab anyway.

returning to Florida almost two years later I saw the doctor for a
respiratory problem and he advised me I'd called the melanoma correctly.

Uncharacteristic of me to go to doctors unless circumstances are dire
I went that time and luck was with me.
Had I ignored it I'd have been dead in a year.
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