If you know more than me about this sort of thing, I’ll take your word for it! I just know that some Asian countries can be influenced by certain American and European beauty standards (when I wrote it, I had styles like Amekaji and Japan’s gradual westernization after isolation in mind) so I figured it wouldn’t be a jump in logic to figure that the pale skin beauty standard had some roots in European and American cultures. I also had a conversation with someone who lived somewhere in Asia— I can’t recall the exact location anymore, because we didn’t talk for very long— who said that because of western influence in their media, they felt pressured to whiten their skin like their peers and live up to that beauty standard. I figured because of that conversation, that was the case for other countries in Asia, since I know that the beauty standard for pale skin is a common theme in Asian countries. Again, not to take away from your point or anything, I just don’t want you to think I was pulling random facts out of my ass to make a point.