How about light caramel skin? Your mom can hurt me a little lol.
Hehe, but in all seriousness, I can relate to that problem you have with your mother.
I once dated a pretty girl, who's parents were from Cambodia. The day I met them and introduced myself, they didn't even take a glance at me and with an angry grin, told me to get out of their home. Well yeah, I felt like shit/pretty pissed off because I had never been so disrespected in my life.
That's when her brother (who i'm very good friends with to this day) later tells me that his parents thought she was bringing home a fellow Khmer. Of course, she was beat (as is the custom with some foreign families/fathers) and she broke up with me as a result.
To this day, I learned from that (had it a happen to me again with an Irish girl's father) mishap, and have learned to first go all out to get the father on his good side immediately lol. Doesn't matter if you have to arm wrestle the son of a bitch or take shot after shot of Jameson Whiskey until you black out, you have to make yourself known to the father when it comes to foreign girls in my experience. He's a man, a real man (get that idea in your head to help motivate you). You should dignify yourself as one as well.