i would like to know more about colour complex, when relating to race?

Answer 1

what colour are you,im sort of neutral with a tan?

Answer 2

I am far from the best person to answer this, but since nobody else has yet I will just say this: a human's "color complex" is determined by their genes and the amount of sun exposure they have received (among other things). What many call "race" is determined by genes also, but no one gene; in other words there is no such thing as a single "race gene". Most people think of a "race"-of-humans as those with common ancestors and thus some common features and genes; however two people from two different "races" might have more in common with each other than they do with a particular other person from their own "race". For example my current girl-friend who is from Thailand is often mistaken for someone of Mexican decent. One time a girl-friend of mine (& I) walked into a Persian restraunt and the owner tried to speak to her in Farsi (the most widely spoken Persian Language) because she looked to him like she was Persian. Additionally one must keep in mind that due to human history (a history of movement, expansion, war, and cultural/gene-exchange) the "gene pools" (on earth) have all been intermixed. Finally, I suggest you look at this: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/307/5712/1050

I hope this sheds some illumination on your question(s).
Cyris

Answer 3

I have heard it said that discrimination on the grounds of colour is relatively new (nineteenth century) and is largely a result of the slave trade between Africa-Britain-America. My source is a documentary charting the development of colour prejuidice many years ago.
What do other people think of this idea?

Answer 4

The origin fo color is light. In fact there is no such thing as color; all what we perceive as arrays of colors is a reaction to certain chemical substances . Our skin adapts to the environment. The hotter it gets, the more brown we look.

Answer 5

I don't quite understand what you are asking. But in different countries colour descriptions may mean quite different things. Eg: "Black" in the US means something different from "Black" in the Caribbean, if you are talking about people.

Answer 6

In the West, particularly the United States, the primary color metaphor for race is the classification of persons of African ancestry as "black" and persons of European ancestry as "white". In Australia, Indigenous Australians are also called "black". The terms negro, colored, and Negroid also served as color metaphors for persons of African ancestry except in some places, such as South Africa, where coloured people were those of mixed racial descent.

Similarly, persons of East Asian descent were called "yellow". This term was most common during the late 19th century, but is now considered offensive by many Asians.[1] The yellow peril was a perceived threat from East Asian immigration, apparently as a literal translation of the German "gelbe Gefahr".

Native Americans have been called "red", "Redskins" (generally considered a racial slur), and are still called "Red Indians" in the UK.[2][3] Other racial groups have fallen under similar classifications with brown being a general term for nonwhites. For instance, during the American occupation of the Philippines, Governor-General William Howard Taft referred to the native Filipino people as his "little brown friends".

Hispanics especially mestizos are commonly called brown people.

It is also commonplace in the US to refer to men and women with ancestry from the Indian subcontinent to be referred to as "brown".

In the United States, color metaphors are so commonplace that many anti-discrimination statutes use the phrase "race, color, or creed". A branch of the civil rights struggle by African-Americans was known as the "Black Power" movement; by extension, a similar civil rights movement among American Indians was (much less commonly) referred to as "Red Power". The metaphors are used somewhat informally in academic writing as well as reflected, for example, in the title of Gary B. Nash's book Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America (1974).

One point of objection to these terms for race is that they can be subconsciously associated with a color's other metaphorical meanings and reinforce positive and negative self-images.[4] The numerous negative uses of black and favorable uses of white have led many people to promote alternate terminology for "black" people, for example "African-American". Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, and Ralph Ellison identify a number of negative metaphors in Western cultures associated with the color "black"; see Black - Usage, symbolism, and colloquial expressions.

Answer 7

jay exposition is very thorough imo.