What Happens When Part of Your Heritage Is Scandinavian

When shown a photograph of a person with one very pale hand and one more reddish hand, most of the class answered aloud that there was something wrong with the pale one.  And they were right; there was an occlusion of the artery.  I assumed there was something wrong with the reddish one, because the pale one was about the color of my own normal hands.  Oh, the joy of never tanning, always burning...