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Originally Posted by Quoth
Agreed. But the Western Media suggests differently.
It depends exactly what you mean by natural, too. Albinos occur naturally, but it's not a naturally ideal situation.
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Your claim was that "darker skin [is] the normal, natural human colour". That's just tosh, and that's the politest word I could think of for the claim. Human skin occurs both normally and naturally in a range of shades from an almost-black brown to a very pale pinky-peach. None of this was the result of purposeful genetic manipulation or intervention, so yeah, it's natural by any definition of the word that I can imagine being reasonable.
Albinism occurs naturally also, but it's obviously not a typical feature of any given population. (I'm not going to get into the issues with constructions of "normality" here.)