If you accept the fact that at some point way back in time all humans were Black (a fact that is widely accepted) then those Black humans must have at some point become lighter (unless you think white people are from space) without being mixed with white since there were no white people to mix with.
If that is true, isn't it also possible that there can be lighter and darker shades of brown people that don't have european ancenstry?
2007-08-01 14:48:14 · 25 answers · asked by $0.02 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
You are 100% correct. There are different shades of black in the black community that have had no contact with the european culture. It is just genetic that some folks will be born with more cells that create melanin and some will be born with less cells that create melanin. The cells that create melanin are in all races but their numbers vary by races.
Whites have different shades of white as do brown folks.
2007-08-01 14:53:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
> If that is true, isn't it also possible that there can be lighter and darker shades of brown people that don't have european ancenstry?
Sure. Asian, Polynesian, Ainu. *shrug* There was a lot of mixing going on, though. Small bits of migration, you know. Only Australia was isolated for tens of thousands of years.
2007-08-01 15:40:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is very possible. They can be mixed with other light skinned races such as some Spanish, Turkish, and people from some part of India and Pakistan to name a few. And it is possible for them to just be that color even if all ancestors are black if thier ancestors had natural caramel color skin.
2016-04-01 10:06:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know where you get your widely accepted facts. Regardless of what you believe in...evolution or Adam and Eve...I don't remember either being of dark skin... However, they all lived outside, which could lend to darker skin pigmentation. There are many factors that can be tied in to skin color, besides race itself. Some diseases create a lighter or darker pigmentation. But I would say that the main reason is probably different societies procreating. Anything is possible.
2007-08-01 15:04:20 · answer #4 · answered by WhiteChocolate 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
lets see...mmmm..was noah white or black? were the latins brown or black.. were the asians pale yellow or black.. were the vikings white or black..were the arabs black or olive skinned.. what you say is widely accepted is widely accepted by who? are all bears black? or are some brown? and maybe some are white?.. perhaps nature has something to do with the pigmentation of skins according to the environment in which a particular race came into being.. and do you think Hawaiians came from europe?
2007-08-01 15:00:41 · answer #5 · answered by J. W. H 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is true. You can be a various shade of brown without having to have European ancestry. Usually, people of color comes in all skin shades from the lightest to the darkest.
2007-08-01 16:46:03 · answer #6 · answered by ♥♥Bree♥♥ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it can be true but it is impossible to know. There were many groups in Africa that had lighter skin before slavery. However, it is hard to know what "impact" European colonialists and missionaries had on these tribes prior to slavery. I have always truly believed that there is no such thing as a pure "race". It is almost an oxymoron.
2007-08-01 15:07:52 · answer #7 · answered by kelly4u2 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
WTF?
There is nothing wrong with being dark complected. Yes there were probably different shades of black, but I doubt any were light skinned unless they had that disease that makes your skin turn white. In the bible WAY BACK before Noah and a little after, EVERYBODY WAS THE SAME COLOR. BLACK. Discrimination was off of family members or "tribes" not because of race. Are you ashamed of that? If you are that is sad. Like the scribes and pharisees(sp?) were black and so were the Israelites, difference was only the clothes they wore.
2007-08-01 15:10:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Yes. It's just a matter of the light skin being selected for (naturally or sexually) as opposed to just being a genetic mutation. In more northern parts of Africa it might be selected for. Genetic mutations can occur with any group in any location, though, as they are random.
And of course, north Asians are light-skinned and we don't associate that with white people.
2007-08-01 15:08:56 · answer #9 · answered by rgeleven 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My bet is it has something to do with climate. As people migrated north out of Africa their skin needed less pigmentation so through natural selection they became lighter. Now if the theory that everybody came from Africa is true that just means everybody is in the same boat, so everybody quit with the racial bitching.
2007-08-01 14:59:44 · answer #10 · answered by Gonealot R 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋