The most frequent type of racism.

Colorism is a form of discrimination in which human beings are accorded differing social and treatment based on skin color. The preference often gets translated into economic status because of opportunities for work. Colorism can be found across the world. The term is generally used for the phenomenon of people discriminating within their own ethnic groups. Often, in countries where the majority group are in control, websites and other locations for researching this issue, distort the facts and portray the main culprits to be the minorities ( Black against white colorism, etc).