Hello there, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Coming up, Shades of Grey, the often unseen prejudice, not just against black or Asian people,

but against those deemed too black.

Your occupation gets decided by the color of your skin,

and there is research which bears out this fact that the darker skin you are,

you are in positions of relative disadvantage.

They call the phenomenon colorism,

picking on darker-skinned individuals within black and Asian populations.

How aware are any of us about these biases we hold at work in life? Business Daily from the BBC.

It was back in the early 20th century not long after Mexico's revolution that that country's leaders called

for one unified bronze race of people, a cosmic race, they called it, living happily with that

racial division. It might have seemed a tall order even then, with 10% of the country enjoying European

ancestry that rest darker-skinned Native Americans.

A hundred years on, it's clear it hasn't happened.

The tone of your skin effectively dictates all aspects of your opportunities in that country,

it seems.

Natasha Pizze recently went to a Mexican beauty pageant with a twist to learn how young women feel affected by this.

20 young women are dancing around a stage

and brightly coloured traditional indigenous dress.

For today, each is named after a flower.

They carry elaborate floral displays on their backs

all woven into their long hair.

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