It's just a thing that was brought from Spain when they came to the Americas. Indigenous people were below blacks, the whiter you were the better kind of life you had. Colorism is still big in the Hispanic culture. I'm light skinned myself but not gonna lie, I'm ashamed of my Spanish heritage. I've seen the difference growing up when I visited my family in my home country. My mothers side is indigenous and my dads side is Spanish. They are a disgrace. I lost respect for them very quickly. They don't even have that much money, they don't have huge careers for them to think they're all that and they don't even get along with their family. They treated my mother with disrespect and they treated their maids like trash. It also depends on their looks, I guess we can say. I didn't mean to put self esteem within being light skinned but eh everyone wants to be white somehow