How to deal with being unatractive in my country?

I live in a southern/mediterranean country where a "beautiful" woman is believed to be tanned and with the looks of a bronze-goddess, latina-style. Much like Jennifer Lopez, for instance. Even if a girl's not all that pretty, people appreciate darker skin, hair goldened by the sun et cetera.

In my case, I am extremely pale and my hair's the blackest black. I know I'm not ugly, mostly when I used to do modelling when I was a bit younger. I'm generally described to be porcelain doll-like, ny nickname's usually Snow White.

It happens that guys seem to think I'm "weird" instead of simply different from average. They compare me to the living dead and say "porcelain-doll" with a very negative conotation. People have openly asked me if I was some sort of vampire (?!!!!) or had some sort of weird ethnicity or disease causing skin depigmentation. Some guys have even said to my face that they'd only find me attractive if I got a tan to be like everyone else, 'till then, I'm doomed to be forever "weird".

I laughed at those sad remarks a couple of times but now it's getting on my nerves that I get to be labeled as "ugly/weird/vampire" simply because I'm different than the average girl and beauty stereotype.