This sounds like a very interesting, almost cheeky question, but nonetheless a very good one for a debate. I was born in the southern part of my country in the west coast of Africa, but raised mostly in the north where temperatures veered into the 40 degrees centigrade levels under a clear cloudless sky most of the time. Did I get sun burnt? I cannot say that I did because either I had no idea what it meant to be sun burnt because we were too busy trying to make a living, or perhaps I was, but did not recognize the fact that I had been sun burnt. With so many other things to worry about like diseases, hunger, overbearing parents, endless supply of mosquitoes, scorpions running around looking for a soft spot on your body to stick their stingers, no one has the luxury of bothering about being sun burnt. As a matter of fact, we were encouraged to stay in the sunlight as much as possible because they said we get a lot of vitamin D from it.
If getting sun burnt is having several dark patches on your skin, then no, I never got sun burnt, and at no time did I ever applied any kind of sun tan or UV ray protection lotion on my skin. On the other hand if being sun burnt is that tingling burning sensation you have all over your skin that makes it feel like you are about to burst into flames, then maybe I did get sun burnt. Like I said before however, for us, it is part of living.
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