I’m not sure if “turning white/pale” is an exaggeration or if people actually do turn pale in certain situations. I’ve never witnessed it myself, anyone here who has?
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As others have said yes it’s true; it happens when people feel faint or are in shock, etc.
And it’s also an example of a medical symptom that is based on having a white or Caucasian skin tone as being the ‘standard’. Many medical symptoms like being pale (“pallor”), having blue lips (cyanosis) or sallow skin (yellowing due to illness) or different types of rash presentations, look very different on different skin tones, but the ‘norm’, or diagnostic criteria, in western medicine is how they appear on white people. So lots of conditions and symptoms get missed in people with other skin tones because they don’t look like what the physician is expecting/was taught to look for.
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