it comes from, you know... it's not even been 100 years that we've shed the british raj. so we still hold onto, i think, what we were made to feel subliminally, and it is up to us and our generation to be able to cut those ties and change it for the next generation so that they don't inherit the equity on light skin, they don't inherit the gender equality that we probably thought was normal. i thought it was completely normal and absolutely 0k to sit for hours and hours on set while my male co—actorjust took his own time, decided whenever he wanted to show up on set is when we would shoot. it was normal, you know, when famous commercials came by and it was a really big shiny brand, it was normal for actors, male and women, to say, "oh, wow, i have glowing white skin now." there was nothing wrong around it. when i was 21, 22, i did think that i was dark skinned, i did think that i was not