Environment and Food chance the way we look even if we were of the same race?

Question

I'm of a pure chinese decent with my grandparents from China. My Indonesian chinese friends look different from Singaporean Chinese and of course we all look very different from Chinese from China. American born chinese also look very different. American ****** look different from African ****** even when they are pure ****** with decendants from Africa. Why do we look different when we are the same race in different parts of the world?

Answer 1

Your basis on purity, I believe is flawed. The majority American blacks will have a mix of Native American/European. My neighbors are from Africa, Nigeria to be more specific. There children were born here, and the boys look just like their father. 22,17,14 are the boys ages.

In one respect I believe you are right about food. I know many Koreans and their children are much taller than their parents. Many times by 6 or more inches. I believe there are nutritional deficiencies in many countries around the world and this explains the height difference.

Answer 2

Climate has something to do with it, some Indians born and brought up in N Europe seem lighter than their own relatives in Kenya or India.

Diet certainly counts, people age faster on some diets. And American Chinese are taller than their cousins in China because they eat American food, not a mainly rice diet.

In your case there is also the question of specific region of China of origin. I think Singaporeans for example are mainly Fujianese.