Why do I keep on hearing that blacks are the most diverse race?

Question

To me Whites are ten times as diverse as blacks. With different hair and eye color and differing facial features.

Answer 1

You are just plain wrong. Your "observations" are nothing more than a manifestation of your own racial prejudice and ignorance. It is objectively provable that European whites are in fact much LESS diverse than other races.


Your contention that Africans can only have Black hair and brown eyes has no no basis and actually runs counter to the known facts. Some of the oldest paintings we have from Egypt depict blue-eyed people with red and yellow hair, they date to over 6, 000 years ago, well before any European admixture. And in case you didn't realise it Egypt is an African country.

Your idea that all Africans have a similar eye, nose and mouth shape is just laughable. Africans have far more diversity in eye, nose and lip shape than any other other continent.

For crying out loud San type people have an epicanthic fold and hence a "Chinese" eye shape. Take a look at a photo of Nelson Mandela if you don't believe me. Are you suggesting that all African people have the same eye type as Nelson Mandela?



"These factors have led to tremendous variability amongst Africans: the continent is home to the tallest and shortest members of our species, variations in cranium and nasal width encompass 80% and 92% of the world range respectively... Africans have both the thickest and thinnest lips, the greatest variation in hair form and notable diversity in eye shape. Broad physiochemical variation, particularly in serological indices also characterize Africans... In fact there appears to be a major tendency to wards morphological and physiochemical polymorphisms in Africans, a trend that is in keeping with the high overall ecological heterogeneity and the general propensity for species to be most diverse in their geographic area of origin.

Jackson, F.L. "Evolutionary and political economic influences on biological diversity in African Americans". Journal of Black Studies. 23:4 539-560

"Caucasians don't show the widest variation in all traits, just certain superficial ones--hair color and texture and eye color, as you point out, along with skin color, which varies from very light to almost black. When it comes to something like height, on the other hand, Caucasians lose out to Africans, whose average stature ranges from 4'8" for adult male pygmies to 5'10" for adult male Batutsis. Similarly, other races show greater variation in nose configuration, distribution of body fat, and so on.

Finally, whatever may be said for Caucasians, all major races show substantial variation in coloration, largely because of adaptation to local conditions. For instance, it's generally conceded that skin pigmentation acts as a filter for the sun's ultraviolet rays, and it's possible to plot out a sort of gradient called a "cline" showing that the closer you get to the equator, whether it's in Africa, Europe, or Asia, the darker the characteristic skin color of the locals. Something similar may conceivably apply to eye or hair color."


These things are only obvious to you because you are racist (in the literal sense) and quite ignorant of the diversity of African people

Answer 2

All races have different hair/eye/facial features in them. You may notice whites more (there is some evidence to suggest it is easier to see a difference in one's own race in their facial features, but that could also be racists attempting to cover up their racism and put it down as just natural), but all races have huge facial differences between members. Blacks aren't more diverse than whites, but whites aren't more than blacks, and neither is more or less than any other race (it is just harder to see).

Answer 3

This is part of the "out of Africa theory".
A small group of Africans migrated to Europe and Asia. This was only a small group, that multiplied a lot, so that all Europeans only have a few common ancestors from 20000years ago, while Africans have their common ancestors from millions of years ago.
This means that there is larger gene diversity among Africans, it doesn't say that their looks is more diverse.

Answer 4

The definition of race gets blurred when you use colors or continents to describe them. Aboriginies from Australia are as "black" as ******. Caucasians are probably not as diverse as blacks. "Blacks" would include the Bushmen and pigmys which doesn't make a lot of sense since the Bantu people are apparently closer to caucasions. They are dark primarily because of the climate they live in not because of any affinity to any particular group of people in my opinion.

Answer 5

I have to say that I agree with you. I don't believe that black people are the most diverse race. I don't know why you keep hearing that.

Answer 6

I hope that you are not indicative of what most people think..,

I am a Caucasian male.., and yet I KNOW that every single one of us..., YES EVERY!!!, has a recessive black gene.

I you research the Genome Project you will discover that WE are all about 95% the same.


Hope that did not mess up your day...

Answer 7

nah black people are cool, they come up with all kinds of music, they made up rock and rap music. I laugh at ppl when they say blacks are violent, havent white ppl been starting war for the last 2000 years?

Answer 8

There is not even a concept of races among human beings, as there is with dogs or cats. End of story.

Answer 9

Probably because every person on earth has black blood, however tiny, it's there. That isn't true for white blood or any other race. However, whites do have more variance between physical characteristics than any other race, if you don't consider the fact that whites have black blood.

Answer 10

I think both white and black has diversity...