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This study uses the Latino National Study to explore the relationship between skin color, acculturation, and perceived discrimination across four situations to understand how perceptions of discrimination may function depending on the situation. Broadly, acculturation predicts a greater likelihood of perceiving discrimination across all situations, yet the situation may determine the role of skin color. Darker skin color predicts perceiving discrimination in consumer situations while it has no significant relationship to perceiving discrimination in the workplace or from police. Following the uncertainty reduction theory, a potential factor driving these results is anonymity between the person perceiving discrimination and the discriminator. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]