Complex sentence: Upon arriving in the U.S. Wahba was thrilled to find her brown skin color (unappreciated in Japan as "curombo"/darky) a plus--in Los Angeles, "where did you get your tan?" replaced hostile taunts in postwar Japan.
Split into simpler sentences: Upon arriving in the U.S., Wahba was thrilled to find her brown skin color (unappreciated in Japan as "curombo"/darky) a plus in Los Angeles. "Where did you get your tan?" replaced hostile taunts in postwar Japan.