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Quote:- … a rare congenital condition that leads to a lack of pigment in the skin, hair, and eyes — can face a life frought with complications. Risks of blindness and skin cancer are high; albino children are often bullied or teased over their looks.

But in places like Tanzania, the challenges are unimaginable: discrimination, segregation, and even death. Local superstitions and traditions provoke attacks on albinos, whose limbs are used in witchcraft practices  

Quote:-    "There is beauty in every one of those children," he said. "Look at Thando Hopa, the young albino model from South Africa who is also a lawyer. She could serve as a role model for those children to gain confidence and shine their beauty in a world of darkness. The problem is that you need to be aware of that, to be surrounded by people who care and love you, who tell you, 'You are the most beautiful girl or boy.'"

A Tanzanian human albino obviously doesn't enjoy the sacred status of the white bison in some Native American religions. But the latter might even be overrated, in terms of reverence for an albino or leucistic bison also equating to it being allowed to survive.

The Lakota religious system and White Buffalo prophesies are based on a messiah who appeared to them about 2,000 years ago called the White Buffalo Woman, or Ptesan­Wi, as she is called in the Lakota language. [...] In 1833, a white bison was killed by the Cheyenne. The skin of this bison is hanging on the wall of Bent's Old Fort in Colorado. The Cheyenne killed this white bison during the Leonid Meteor Shower (The Night the Stars Fell) and scribed a peace and trade treaty on its skin. This event was documented by historian Josiah Gregg and other travelers on the Santa Fe Trail. http://www.aaanativearts.com/what-is-the...te-buffalo

There was an albino fella living in my dormitory building way back when.  He had poor vision like seems very common for albinos.  He got me interested in wanting to make a dye laser, which I thought about on and off for a long time.  Now a ruby rod would be used instead of dye, I guess.