Does anyone know if black people?

Question

get hotter in the sun that white people? Just out of curiousity, because If I wear black I seem to get hotter than if i wear a light colour (i swear this is not a racist question, pure curiosity)

Answer 1

How in the hell do expect people to answer this question. Im Black, and have NO IDEA how hot white people feel when theyre in the sun....and of course no White person is going to know how it feels for a Black person. Slap yourself for asking this dumb *** question!

Answer 2

Good question! I suppose the surface of their skin might heat up more but they might not FEEL as hot as a fairer skinned person would because the feeling hot mechanism of the body is there to warn people that they have been in the sun too long ie it is to a large extent a sensation produced by the body rather than a real physical feeling..if you see what I mean - so dark-skinned people would not need to be "warned" about being in the sun as quickly as fair-skinned people

Answer 3

As for clothing, the colour black absorbs heat, the colour white reflects it, but I do not think bodies act in the same way, exactly. It stands to logical reasoning that the darker the pigment in the skin, the more heat will be absorbed, but what the body does with it?? no Idea. If I lived in a hot country I would want the heat absorbed because I probably would not burn so easy, curse of fair skin!

Answer 4

Dark skinned people have more melanin in their skin which protects them from the more intensive sun rays nearer the equator. It does not protect them from sunburn and people with dark skin should also use sun creams.
Vitamin D can only be usefully absorbed with the addition of sunlight. This seems to mean that people with darker skin in the northern hemisphere should go out in the sun more often than their paler skinned neighbours.

Answer 5

This can easily be answered using basic laws of physics and the answer would be yes. Darker colored skin (even different shades of white" would retain more heat than lighter skin with lighter skin being less prone to heat absorbtion. Dark skin does less reflecting of the suns rays there fore absorbing more heat and radiation. Although lighter skin is more suseptable to sun light and feels hot after a burn, it actually would reflect more light away from the body than darker skin would.

Answer 6

We get hot in the sun too just like white people. what you see is only color, the skin is still a skin and whatever effect you get, blacks also get it. the only advantage is that because we have melanin, we are not as prone to cancer as white people are.

Answer 7

well, I can tell you that a black person can hold more sun than a white person because of the skin pigmentation so I will assumed they get hotter...

Answer 8

I'll tell you from my experience.. I love the sun and hate the cold. A lot of my caucasian friends are always hot when I'm just fine and I'm always cold when they're just fine. It's strange but something about the amount of melanin I guess...
I wear a sweater when they say the temperature is okay...lol

Answer 9

Hi no black peole do not get hotter than whites in hot weather.

Answer 10

their skin is much more oily.
This is because they have different sweat glands to us.
That is why some scientists say they were genetically engineerd to work the mines.
They get hot, but sweat differently. Oily secretions protect the skin from burning and water evaporation.

Answer 11

They don't. You should have figured that one out easily. They don't get sun burned easily. The melanin (which happens to make em darker) also makes em kinda sun proof.