Re: The quest for fair skinned wife
I think education may be a solution to such… discrimination? It surely would help in making individual’s well rounded and to understand that personality and other attributes are just as important than just a person’s outer appearance.
Fairer people are by no means better-looking or just “better” than people who are darker. I’ve seen darker people who are not only better looking, but also have better personalities.
As for the psychological burden that girls have to carry when being paraded around, the parent’s will be fully aware of what the girl is being subject to, but it is the fear of the daughters not getting married (before their time runs out) that outweighs such concerns.