Where we come from, white skins, and green ones after a long winter... when compared with the healthy tan of a skier or of a traveler, rich!
This thing about white being high class is even true with blacks in US calling darker ones "nigger". I lived and taught in Virginia, heard hundreds of racist jokes, still don't understand!
A Chiang Mai chinese bank manager, 40 years old white skinned, not ugly, asked me a few years ago why none of the farangs she met asked her out. She had a good position in the bank, good money, a car and a house. I was with my dark skinned Lisu fiancee, I told her that I did'nt come to Thailand to meet white girls! All the farangs she saw with asian women were with dark skin beauties.
But they will never learn. One thing is for sure, things do not change here, there is one way of doing things, the only way!
Go to any drug store and look at the number of whitening products!
For me, white teeth with full lips, high cheek bones, tiny nose and almond eyes are the ultimum criterias of beauty, I never get tired of watching.