Did asians and whites come from the same types of Africans?

Question

I don't want to here I'm racist either because I'm a quarter black. But I don't think they did. If you look at Africa you can find several different races of blacks some that resemble Asians with epicanthic eye folds. Or if you look at someone like Kobe Bryant he shares a lot of features with Europeans. Or even someone like Mick Jagger more closely resembles a congoid in facial structure than some South or West Africans. They should broaden the race definitions on tests and applications. You can count like 10 or more races based on physical apperance alone before you even start considering mixed races like some Arabs with kinky hair, Tibetians(Asian/Native Aussie), Filipinos, Puerto Ricans, American Blacks, etc. Some asians may be closer genetically to some South Africans than some American Blacks which is funny because a black dude rooting for Nelson Mandela and Korean Dude could be closer to him genetically.

Answer 1

Yes, sort of. Every "race" of people came from African roots, but they branched off and migrated at different times. That accounts for the differences in appearance as there were small mutations in human DNA along the way. To really understand it (better than I can explain it) watch National Geographic's "The Journey of Man" - the brilliant movie about the scientists tracing the DNA of all men and women on earth from their common ancestors in Africa.

Of course, neo-Nazis and the like would say that it's liberal-Jewish-NAACP propaganda and wouldn't believe it anyway. Maybe someday, as the older racists die off and we're attacked by aliens from outer space, all humans will finally believe they belong to the same race and they better start thinking about saving the planet they live on!

Oh, yeah - see Al Gore's movie about global warming - before it's too late!

Answer 2

Like you said, Africa has a different Black races, even though ALL are Blacks. For example, if you go to East Africa, in Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, and Djibouti they look way different from the rest of Africans in the West and South. And up in the north, you have the Arab-Africans.

Did you noticed the Malay race of Asia resembles more Africans than Eruopeans, etc?

Answer 3

Technically, we all came from the same mother. So, yes we did all come from the same type of of African. So far it appears that Africa is the source of the first "Homo Sapien" that all of the others (you and me) have decended from. What we look like has changed and become veried over thousands of generations and hundreds of environmental conditions. Kobe Bryant could have a white Grandparent from 150 years ago in his family or Mick Jagger an East Indian just a generation before. Do you look like your Great Grandparents? Perhaps you have your father's nose but have straight hair unlike anyone else in your family. A family tree is very complex and there is no way to predict what the next branch will look like.

Answer 4

I thought about this long ago too when I was doing my research on Ethnicity in my uni.

I came across really interesting information about how humans travelled across the globe and eventually settled down. But they were all headed from the same start point, Africa.

Do you know that MANY North Indians look like Europeans? They can walk on the streets and people'll think they're Italians or Greeks! And when a Chinese, Korean and Japanese walk on the street in a non-Asian country, people can't tell their nationalities apart. I came to an eventual conclusive statement/question : Why do we all discriminate people of other nationalities when we are all in fact from the very same ancestors?

Answer 5

According to anthropology, all races originated in Africa. It was after they began to spread around the globe that evolutionary changes took place, where different regions produced different effects, such as the more northern latitudes gradually produced white skin, etc. The different races remained more "pure" until about the last 100 years, when easier travel between countries enabled the races to mix more than in previous times. I have heard that genetically, all races can be traced back to Africa, no matter what evolutionary changes have evolved in each race.

Answer 6

You can trace the origins of a race through DNA testing and cranial examination, in addition to comparative anatomy.

It isn't surprising that you would see patterns that later emerged and dominated other races in their predacessors, or that you would see them grouped together. That's how it works.

But just to be clear, recessive traits can hide for generations and generations, thriving while undetected, before they emerge in a large group of people who reproduce among each other to produce only that trait.

Not to mention, it is just as likely that the people you're seeing developed the traits that you're seeing after the races as we know them diverged.

Physical comparison isn't the most reliable way to detect ancestral origin. Also, races don't develop so cleanly. Caucasians and Asians were at one point very similar until they diverged and began to take different approaches to selecting a mate, probably more for geographic reasons than for any dissimilarity.

Answer 7

I am not a geneticist but you do have a point. The Australian Aboriginals were thought to have migrated from Africa many thousands of years ago when the land bridge was still there before the Ice Age ended and the rising water caused by the melting ice cut them off. I am not sure if some sort of testing like that has been done but it would be interesting to find out.

Answer 8

As Ice cream guy stated the first "human beings" who presented the slaves over to the U.S. were surely English in view that this land change into an English colony. i'm no longer white and that i dislike the time period African-American. I also dislike any German-American, Irish-American, or Italian-American. what's the point? maximum of them have under no circumstances been to those places, they do no longer understand a lot about the life-style, or maybe communicate any of the languages. I see it as something ineffective to do. And maximum whites that i understand do aspect out their ancestors yet do no longer label themselves ecu-human beings. So why do blacks? i hit upon it also a truly ofensive time period. through affirming African-American, that's implying that man or woman is African earlier American even as that isn't the case. Blacks interior the U.S. were portion of united statesa. because the 1600s. there is no longer something African about them. that's merely yet otherwise to set them except for mainstream society. also, North Africa isn't black. seem on the Algerian participant now retired Zidane who's from , he's white yet he's likewise from Africa. So if he were to stay interior the U.S. will be African-American? it really is a stupid time period. also, England has their personal race themes. i understand the BNP doesn't evaluate those center easteners Brits. and far of england doesn't quite appear as if England from the 60s or 70s especially London. i'm also confident many of the immigrants in England do no longer see themselves as British the picture of many immigrants interior the U.S. do no longer see themselves as human beings. So do not attempt to furnish that effect to usa racial cohesion interior the U.ok. And we are no longer yanks both. You communicate like a friggin' southerner. powerful answer, Holmodod it seems many English opt to ignore that their us of a has performed terrible issues. England had colonies in North united statesa., Africa, Asia and also you even colonized Australia which change into so a concepts off from England and just about wiped out the aboriginals. Your anti-Catholic and anti-Irish, there is an English regulation that the PM of england won't be able to be Catholic! Tony Blair grew to change into Catholic in worry-free words after he left his put up. So who're the authentic racists, bigots the following?

Answer 9

They probably did, if you go back far enough. Differential evolution occurs when populations are separated, and it appears that the groups we now see as caucasian and asian separated from the original African group some tens of thousands of years ago to start what was perhaps the last separate evolution of H. sapiens. This is long enough ago that ice ages may well have been a factor in driving migration.

Answer 10

Good question.
If you are just talking about physical differences, why do you need racial labels at all?
But it sounds like you are talking about attributes that developed in various regions. Some of them are similar and some are distinct.
Rather than evolve into more racial groups, as we did when we were separated by geographic divides, Humankind stands to become more homogeneous.
Hopefully, you and my great great grand kids will not care.