Comment by paganel
6 years ago
For what it’s worth it also depends on the skin color of the person involved. If you’re on the more brownish side of things (like my mother and brother are) then you will not be as affected as the people who are more light-skinned (like the guy from the submitted post). There’s also the fact that our grandparents managed just fine to work all day long in broad sunlight without developing skin diseases, but it’s also true that they would almost never wear short-sleeved stuff and they would always keep their head covered under intense sunlight. Nowadays it’s almost a matter of pride among some people (think Nordic or British tourists) to show off how red-skinned they have become after just a couple of days spent in Greece or Southern Spain, it’s nuts.
Later edit: I’m talking about something like this [1], you can see how no person in that photo wears anything short-sleeved and you can also see that almost everyone has their head covered, with the exception of those two guys who probably took their hats off in order to enjoy the tzuica or palinka.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harvest_time_in_Romania...
I think it depends on tropical location more than anything else. The sun is much more potent. My grandfather in northern Australia had many cancers removed from his face, ears, neck, shoulders, arms and legs. Today skin cancer occurs in roughly 2 out of 3 people in Australia.