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Lighter Skin = Better?
RE: Lighter Skin = Better?
(July 25, 2013 at 3:25 am)Justtristo Wrote: The light skin color which people in Europe have is a very recent development, certainly less than 10,000 years ago. Which is the time when Europeans switched from a hunter gatherer to agricultural lifestyle and could not get enough vitamin D in their new diets.

Before that Europeans would have had significantly darker skin tone.


You just made that up, didn't you? Neanderthals in Europe had no agriculture, and yet exhibit genes showing they were very light skinned, probably freckled and had ginger hair.
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RE: Lighter Skin = Better?
(July 27, 2013 at 6:00 am)Koolay Wrote: If we were to accept that the climate of these darker skin countries make people more violent and uncivilised.

Why don't white people become more primitive when they go to these countries then? Europeans came to America, and took away the savages, implemented capitalism and free trade. They didn't turn into savages like the native Americans after they arrived.

Wait, seriously? You typed that and read it back and didn't realize how stupid you sound?
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RE: Lighter Skin = Better?
(July 23, 2013 at 7:59 pm)Polaris Wrote:
(July 22, 2013 at 11:51 pm)Rahul Wrote: Well in art there are colors, non-colors, shades, and pastels.

White and Black are considered non-colors.

I'm sure scientists don't define it that way, though.

Black is not considered a color to scientists, but the problem with their view is they see it as an absolute.

To scientists, color is the distribution of relative intensity of light across the visible portion EM spectrum, brightness, or to artists and photographers - tone, is the sum of absolute intensity across the visible spectrum. What is perceived by human eye to be either white or black are the results of either high or low brightnesse. At very high and very low brightnesses that human eye might perceive as white and black, the human eye can not discern the distribution of relative intensity at different parts of spectrum, it can only discern the total brightness across the whole spectrum.

So black or white can be precisely the same color as defined by scientists, but different brightness

Understood?

(July 27, 2013 at 3:07 pm)CleanShavenJesus Wrote:
(July 27, 2013 at 6:00 am)Koolay Wrote: If we were to accept that the climate of these darker skin countries make people more violent and uncivilised.

Why don't white people become more primitive when they go to these countries then? Europeans came to America, and took away the savages, implemented capitalism and free trade. They didn't turn into savages like the native Americans after they arrived.

Wait, seriously? You typed that and read it back and didn't realize how stupid you sound?

The sort of minimum intelligence needed to discern the stupidity during read back would have prevented him from typing the doggerel in the first place.
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RE: Lighter Skin = Better?
(July 27, 2013 at 6:00 am)Koolay Wrote: If we were to accept that the climate of these darker skin countries make people more violent and uncivilised.

Why don't white people become more primitive when they go to these countries then? Europeans came to America, and took away the savages, implemented capitalism and free trade. They didn't turn into savages like the native Americans after they arrived.

Or in Australia, when British were sent there, they didn't join in with the native Australian primitive culture, they introduced their less violent and more productive reign. Australia is estimated to be the richest country per household, are you telling me that if white people left those people doing blood sacrifices and praying to the volcano gods alone that that could happen?

Clearly it has nothing to do with climate, light skins are superior as a whole.

Ignorance is bliss.
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RE: Lighter Skin = Better?
Does Koolay really not realize that there were complex civilizations in Africa at the time that Europeans were still living in nomadic tribes? The kingdoms of Punt and Kush come to mind. We're talking at least 2800 years ago.
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RE: Lighter Skin = Better?
Does Koolay also not realise that back then, pretty much all of the British sent to Australia were Christians with their own "Volcano God"?
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RE: Lighter Skin = Better?
(July 27, 2013 at 2:54 pm)Chuck Wrote:
(July 25, 2013 at 3:25 am)Justtristo Wrote: The light skin color which people in Europe have is a very recent development, certainly less than 10,000 years ago. Which is the time when Europeans switched from a hunter gatherer to agricultural lifestyle and could not get enough vitamin D in their new diets.

Before that Europeans would have had significantly darker skin tone.


You just made that up, didn't you? Neanderthals in Europe had no agriculture, and yet exhibit genes showing they were very light skinned, probably freckled and had ginger hair.

I meant among Homo Sapiens, the Neanderthals where a separate species, which made up a small number of our ancestors.
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