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I've lived all my childhood in 48°-49° degree north (north of France). When I visited SoCal for the first time at 15 (34° Lat), I thought I had been immersed in a magic world of colors and sun.
Chineses in general are very light skinned (skin type III) compared to their latitude.
They should be like Pakistanis and Arabs..but their skin is lighter. It is due to their anomalous solar irradiance for that latitude
Btw I ve seen some Chinese with pinkish skin, and fine hair. (They were asiatic, without doubt..: eyes and face tipe).. Where did they come from?? This is a mystery
Most East Asians including the Chinese, Taiwanese, etc. have the genetic mutation OCA2 which tends to materialize as lighter pigmentation. See: Association of the OCA2 polymorphism His615Arg with melanin content... - PubMed - NCBI and Rs1800414 - SNPedia While most Europeans have a genetic mutuation SLC24A5 which materializes as lighter pigmentation for them. See: SLC24A5 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Prior to that genetic mutation, I believe the ancestors of the East Asians and Europeans were darker. I also always wonder if some East Asians who live as far south as parts of India, Saudi Arabia, North Africa not have dark pigmentation. I am an American living in Southern California but of Taiwanese background. Taiwan lies along the 23 parallel north, but find many Taiwanese fairly light skinned for a population that far south (along the Tropic of Cancer). See: 23rd parallel north - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Taiwan..for it s latitude.. Is quite cloudy.
Also Taiwan and southern china were colonized not so much back in time
As well as Philippines. Philipinos are still light skinned., but they live at equator.. Eventually evolution will bring them to look like subsaharian Africans
See the prehistoric population of south east Asia: Negritos (today few groups survived and unabsorbed) prior to the arrival of East Asian colonizers from the north.
Still japaneses are a bit fairer of skin than chineses for example.
Japan gets Italian to Central European solar irradiance. But still japaneses aren depigmented on hair color (all are uniformly black haired; not dark brown haired like the majority of Italians; dark brown hair is also quite common in North Africa and the Middle East)
South East Asia has the monsoon that makes it cloudy in summer.
They have a monsoonic summer; so more cloudy summer..this cut out many solar irradiations during the summer period.
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