Question about race's
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iamdjdz said:I believe in Him and have as far as I'm concerned far more than sufficient evidence that He cares for me individually. But I respect other people who don't believe the same
Did He teach you to put Random capital Letters on the Start of Words?
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Its not that annoying really tbh...
on a scale of annoying things 1-10 (10 being women in 4x4 on the school run)
it may be 0.5
maybe im just a really mellow person
on a scale of annoying things 1-10 (10 being women in 4x4 on the school run)
it may be 0.5
maybe im just a really mellow person
Ah, negative Annoyance.lemonkettaz said:
Lol, bible Needs a capital B!
Accent comes from the people you're around and Talking to. I knew soMeone who liVed near me, then Moved To americA and came back With an amErican accent. But you get your Accent when you're Young, and iT sTAys With you for the Rest of your life, iirc.
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yhack said:
do you know what, i read that perfectly.. i really understood everything that was written
Thank god i didnt made this thread...I would have got accused on making "racial and cultural differences thread" again......
OP i think most of your question have bben answered. Chiniese have a different body (facial expression), so is some other parts of the world with distinct features e.g Somalia etc.
Geograhpical locations also contribute by making our ancestors differetn via need to adapt to our enviroment etc. Cant think of more at the moment.
OP i think most of your question have bben answered. Chiniese have a different body (facial expression), so is some other parts of the world with distinct features e.g Somalia etc.
Geograhpical locations also contribute by making our ancestors differetn via need to adapt to our enviroment etc. Cant think of more at the moment.
Ricochet J said:Why is it, if you're born in China, you look Chinese, with the wide eyes?
Why is it, if you're born in India you've got black hair and brown skin?
Why is it if you're born in England you're (generally) white in colour?
Why is it if you're born abroad you have an accent, infact, anywhere, you've got an accent?
Very confusing seeing as we all live on one world
I think you have been smoking the wacky backy.
All those statements are incorrect.
I know someone who was born in China, he is white and doesn't have wide eyes?
yhack said:
It changes throughout your life, more so in some than others. Some may pick up an accent in a riiiidiculously short amount of time, and others may be in a country sixty years and still have their native accent.
Populations have, for the vast majority of human history—for most places, up until the last 100 years, which is nothing—populations have existed pretty much in enclaves. When there's not much mingling with members of other populations, shared genetic features (skin colour, eye shape, nose shape, etc. etc.) get shared to the point where there are recognisable differences between members of one population and members of another—it's the same principle that, over much larger periods of time, leads to the branching of different species; two groups of the same species, separated over time and in geographically dissimilar areas, will typically evolve differently to the point where they can no longer breed with one another, and are therefore different species.
Of course, in practise it doesn't really work exactly like that. Virtually no populations are truly separated from the rest of the world, and so there aren't clear dividing lines; there is no point where you can say "right, this side of the line people are Chinese; this side of the line people are central European/Indian/whatever". If you walked from Paris to Beijing, you'd see a gradual merging of phenomes from the white people you'd expect in Paris and the Chinese people you'd expect in Beijing. Central Asian states, probably roughly the midpoint between Paris and Beijing, hold up to this; they typically look like a mixture of Chinese and European (like this Kazakh man).
Of course, in practise it doesn't really work exactly like that. Virtually no populations are truly separated from the rest of the world, and so there aren't clear dividing lines; there is no point where you can say "right, this side of the line people are Chinese; this side of the line people are central European/Indian/whatever". If you walked from Paris to Beijing, you'd see a gradual merging of phenomes from the white people you'd expect in Paris and the Chinese people you'd expect in Beijing. Central Asian states, probably roughly the midpoint between Paris and Beijing, hold up to this; they typically look like a mixture of Chinese and European (like this Kazakh man).
ElRazur said:
It's not always adaptation, though; usually it's just a case of shared traits being kept within a separated population. I don't think you can make the case that narrower eyes, confer an evolutionary advantage, for example; same with any number of other shared traits.
Ricochet J said:Why is it, if you're born in China, you look Chinese, with the wide eyes?
Why is it, if you're born in India you've got black hair and brown skin?
Why is it if you're born in England you're (generally) white in colour?
Why is it if you're born abroad you have an accent, infact, anywhere, you've got an accent?
Very confusing seeing as we all live on one world
Did you fail biology?