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It doesnt sound racist to me!
I have no idea!
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I suspect that most of the way folk look is down to local preference in choosing a partner, over many many centuries, many many generations. There may be valid reasons for those preferences or they may just be whatever they turned out to be.
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I could ask the same question about Afro-caribbean noses , why are they flatter?
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Dibble1 - “... I don't know how to ask this without sounding racist but I'm not so here goes anyway...”
Your question is not racist in any way, shape or form.
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With regards to the OP's question, how perverse have we become when a rational, reasonable person fears to ask a question about another race's physiology because they may be branded a racist? It just goes to show how a well intentioned notion can become so twisted and insidious that it frightens people so much that they fear a torrent of abuse for asking a perfectly reasonable question.
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Quite true , the fear of racism is now far worse than racism itself.
I remember a post on here, a child had been told by her school to write a letter of apology admitting they were racist simply for asking another child ''are you brown because you come from Africa?'' The childs mother rightly refused and put in a formal complaint.
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Some believe that the Chinese eyes developed from their ancestors having originally lived in a very cold climate, which gave rise to a layer of fat being developed in the upper eyelid to protect the eyeball from cold. This feature can also be seen in Eskimo peoples, and it determines the shape of their eyes. It's thought that the Afro nose was the original normal shape, but as people migrated north to cooler climates, (the so-called temperate zones), the Caucasian nose developed, allowing inhaled air to be warmed for longer before being drawn into the lungs. But if the climate was colder still, (Arctic), noses of shorter length were again necessary, in this case to guard against frostbite. Hence the short noses of Eskimos and Chinese, and added evidence that the Chinese could be of far northern ancestry.
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On a general note, I read somewhere a few weeks ago that one scientist says humans are one of the newest species on the planet and have not yet reached half way in their evolution. So what will we look like in the future?
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^^ Evolution is never finished. It goes on for as long as there is Life on Earth.
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Heathfield - “... the Caucasian nose developed, allowing inhaled air to be warmed for longer before being drawn into the lungs. But if the climate was colder still, (Arctic), noses of shorter length were again necessary, in this case to guard against frostbite. Hence the short noses of Eskimos and Chinese, and added evidence that the Chinese could be of far northern ancestry...”
I've never heard that before. Thanks for sharing that fascinating nugget of knowledge.
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On this, the Ainu people of Japan are very hairy. They are thought to be descendants of original Japanese people, the familiar Asian features being of people who arrived later.Certainly Inuit, 'eskimo', people look remarkably oriental, as noted.
Black people have various adaptations to an African climate; high pigment protects the skin but restricts the benefit in vitamin from sunlight. That doesn't matter when there's so much of it in Africa. They also have more sweat glands, which does matter in hot climates, but which doesn't matter much to people evolved in the colder north Our ancestors came from Africa, and presumably had early adaptation to the climate, so we who are white have lost some of the less relevant characteristics over time.
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↑ Great information. Ta!
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the fear of racism is now far worse than racism itself.
Sorry, Eddie, I just don't believe that's true - ask Stephen Lawrence's family.
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Jno -
I do agree with your point but I think it would be remiss of me not to say that Eddie makes a very valuable point – we are demonising children in our pursuit of racial equality and the incompatible notion of racial blindness.
Children ask questions. That's what they are biologically programmed to do. When we have primary school children being accused of racism for simply pointing out the obvious physical differences between kids of different races then there is something seriously wrong with the teachers and ultimately, society.
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