She was dark and thin and foreign-looking in a world where the prestige went to blondness and curly hair and dimples, slow where glibness was prized. What is the best meaning for the word prestige?

The ability to influence/popularity

Explanation:

It's clearly a poke at today's society where to be considered "worthy" of popularity or to have others listen to what you have to say you have to look a certain way. The girl feels out of place purely because she has darker colouring and all of the more "popular" people are fair.

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