How many of us have been called ‘kale’ or ‘kali’ growing up? Or how many of us know a kale/kali friend that we often make fun of? We Nepali people often associate darker skin with unattractiveness. If someone we know is dark skinned, we make fun of their skin color and make them uncomfortable in their own skin. Many of us probably have been either on a receiving or offending end of ‘colorism’ several times in our life. I have definitely been on the offending end. I wasn’t necessarily a fair skin guy but my skin wasn’t dark enough to get labelled as ‘kale’. I did have friends growing up, both in school and in my neighborhood who were labelled as kale/kali. And they didn’t like being called that name and would often get angry when called so. Why? I didn’t understand back then what the big deal was on being called kale/kali,but now looking back I realize we as a society even to this day, use those terms in a derogatory way to make fun of dark skinned people. We associate dark skin with b…