ls in XFCE Terminal returns color codes in variables

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the alias: alias ls="ls --color" in .bashrc returns color codes in variables - I never had problems with this on any other distribution before. is there a way i can use colors in xfce terminal but not getting them returned as text in a variable on linux lite?

I get the following output for this line:

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for folder in `ls`;do ls $folder/*;done


as workaround I uncomment the line.

thanks for your help