How do you tell apart from different yet similar races (school, college)
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Why does anybody really need to know someone's race? Being able to accurately distinguish races is not really a valuable skill because there is nothing to gain from it.
Why does anybody really need to know someone's race? Being able to accurately distinguish races is not really a valuable skill because there is nothing to gain from it.
Good point re: racial differences because they're so broad and usually compare people from distant proximity. Distinguishing "ethnic" differences as opposed to racial differences sometimes can help explain misunderstandings between people in close proximity.
For instance in Italy my girlfriend explained the huge distrust between the Northern Italians and the Southern Italians. The Northerners call the Southerners "Terroni" -- which is a derogatory term that means something like "people who live off the land."
Funny that the North/South divide occurs in smaller countries as much as it occurs in the U.S. The industrial/sophisticated north vs. the more rural/traditional South. Same in Germany, France, Spain.
In England it's different. There it's usually the South that is the sophisticated and "preferred" region of the country and the "grim" industrial North that is considered more backward. Part of the English divide is ethnic I believe. The Anglo-Saxon south vs the more Celtic north? Anyone from the UK able to clarify?
Why does anybody really need to know someone's race? Being able to accurately distinguish races is not really a valuable skill because there is nothing to gain from it.
Suppose you have a non-English-speaking Asian in distress that you want to help but their ethnicity has to be determined to find them a translator quickly?
OK, that's a stretch.
For me, it's just fascination with the whole genetics/culture world.
Only a few years ago did I find out that the Japanese are not native to Japan. They marginalized the Ainu, who are the original inhabitants. I find this stuff interesting.
Why does anybody really need to know someone's race? Being able to accurately distinguish races is not really a valuable skill because there is nothing to gain from it.
Maybe not in the US, but in some places it's a matter of survival.
The Kenyan woman I mentioned a few posts ago was from the Luo tribe (Kenya's official languages are English and Swahili, plus you know your tribal language). Her brother, who lived in Jersey City, was married to a woman from another tribe that in Kenya would be absolutely unacceptable for a Luo to marry into. Over there, someone would be able to spot this in an instant and there could be big trouble.
In Jersey City, no one would notice, or care and probably not even realize these people came from Africa at all. She spent most of her childhood in the US, and her grandfather in Kenya berated her for not speaking "proper" English--she talks like an American.
I was surprised by how many native Italians when I was over there were so "German" looking. Yet they have that Italian sensuality on top of the more Northern European features. They were also tall and skinny.
And I was surprised by how many native Italians when I was over there were so "Indonesian" looking.
I just had an eye-popping experience, meeting my first albino black person at a Rehab facility I work in. White as a sheet, but he's black.
I asked some of the black black's at work about this, and they explained to me the phenomena of albino blacks, some even with blonde hair.
Learn something new every day!
LOL!
I'd say, as Akhneto06 puts it, Blacks who are not albino. A lot of Blacks have light skin and/or grey/violet/green/blue eyes and/or blond/red hair.
LOL!
I'd say, as Akhneto06 puts it, Blacks who are not albino. A lot of Blacks have light skin and/or grey/violet/green/blue eyes and/or blond/red hair.
One of the most beautiful woman I've ever seen was from Jamaica with mixed ancestry. Flawless, cocoa butter skin and light blue eyes. She even made Rihanna, who has similar ancestry, look busted! And that's hard to do!
Haitians tend to be smaller than most Caribbean blacks, with rounder heads aswell. Jamaicans are usually tall and skinny. and Bahamians are in between.
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I assume you mean the Blacks who aren't pigmentally-challenged.
