2007-03-23 07:08:40 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Are you an idiot? All people have melanin in their skin except for albinos. There is no superior skin color. However, there are different 'levels' of melanin in the skin that are more suited to different parts of the world.
Take Nigerians for example. They have dark skin to protect themselves from harmful UV radiation. People who live in England have lighter skin because that region does not get as much sun as other places that are close to the equator. Their lighter skin allows more sunlight in, and sunlight is imperative for vitamin D synthesis.
When this was discovered, many people wondered why eskimos had such dark skin if they live in an area of the world that does not get much sunlight. The reason is that they have a diet based on fish which is a natural resource for vitamin D. Since they receive all the vitamin D they need from their diet, there was no evolutionary pressure to evolve a lighter skin color.
More simply, the answer to your question is no.
2007-03-23 07:46:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I hope you're joking or trolling. This is some bizarre kind of racism. Your skin color is only a very small part of your genome, and it has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence or other physical characteristics. So the answer is a definite no.
2007-03-23 08:39:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say they're gentically superior... and saying that makes me no more racist then you for asking the question.
-_-
Seriously though.. I once read a biology paper about the genetic mutation that differentiates "white" people from "black" people. Does this mean we are inferior.. perhaps.. but I doubt it.
Ah ha!
"The newly found mutation involves a change of just one letter of DNA code out of the 3.1 billion letters in the human genome -- the complete instructions for making a human being."
"that the number of DNA differences between races is tiny compared with the range of genetic diversity found within any single racial group."
Oh wow.. "secretsauce" wins...
2007-03-23 07:14:52 · answer #3 · answered by Armatu 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
The phrase "genetically inferior" is meaningless jibberish.
If you disagree, then please explain ... what do *you* think the phrase "genetically inferior" means?
(And it is meaningless not only in comparing humans, but also when comparing *species*. It is as meaningless to say that chimps are "genetically inferior" to humans ... or humans are "genetically superior" to chimps as it is to say that dogs are "genetically inferior or superior" to cats ... or orchids are "genetically inferior or superior" to sponges.)
Racism has no foundation in genetics.
2007-03-23 07:32:40 · answer #4 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i have almost NO melanin.....i'm a ghastly pale caucasoid creature who burns to a crisp in indirect sunlight within 15 minutes. i'm a mutant, and shouldn't reproduce. oh yeah, i never did. it's wonderful not dealing with whiny spawn.
2007-03-23 14:21:18 · answer #5 · answered by bad guppy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, because the gene color for skin color is codominant (so white is not recessive)
The people above are quite rude, because this is a question that I myself have wondered about in the past. (I thought that white skin was homozygous recessive and anything that was homozygous recessive meant that it was inferior)
2007-03-23 07:18:21 · answer #6 · answered by bibimbapbambina 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
whites are inferior to black men
2015-04-28 20:37:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋