what are caucasian features?

Question

With the exception of a lack of ocular melanin and melanin in the hair what features are rightly attributed to caucasians alone.

I am asking about frame of reference, because when I see a person with, for example, then lips or an equine nose. Those are not, in my opinion, "caucasian features." They are thin lips and an equine nose.

differnt eye colors is brought about by lack of ocular melanin. I named that as an exception.

Lacedout - you always get my drift ... muah.

Answer 1

Thin nose and lips are not rightly attributed to White people. There are full Africans with these features, and I mean Black Africans.

I think just the lack of melanin...

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Answer 2

Caucasian Features

Answer 3

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what are caucasian features?
With the exception of a lack of ocular melanin and melanin in the hair what features are rightly attributed to caucasians alone.

I am asking about frame of reference, because when I see a person with, for example, then lips or an equine nose. Those are not, in my opinion, "caucasian...

Answer 4

There aren't specific caucasian features as they range from blonde to brunette, round to oval faces, blue to brown eyes, fair or tanned. Europeans all look different!

Answer 5

By the certain white people's definition, caucasian means narrow nose and thin lips. First, I would like to say that whites do not have the monopoly on narrow noses and thiner lips. I do not believe that these features should be called "caucasian" because caucasian implies white/european origins and in many cases, this is not the case.

For example, there are may Africans that have narrow noses and thin lips, and they do not have white or western asiatic admixture. the so called "*****" fetures do not even make up the majority in sub-sahara africa. Africans with broader noses and fuller lips are found mostly in western africa--(although narrrow features are found amongst many in western africa as well--narrow featured africans cluster with the broader featured africans) Broader noses and fuller lips, and curlier/frizzier hair are an environmental adaptaion to humid, tropical weather found in western africa. While thinner noses, thinner lips and straighter hair are adaptations to dry heat, which is often found in eastern africa such as ethiopia and Somalia.

Is the Nigerian (west african) any more black than the ethiopian( eastern african) or is the ethiopian any more black than the nigerian? NO. Both populations are black african with diffferent environmental adaptaions--just like european whites, black africans also come in different shapes, sizes, shades, and features.

Black africans cannot be pigeon holed as being only only one type. But many times, they are. because the americans and the Western world are mostly familiar with only with the tropical adapted african that can be found in Western Africa which was the location of the americas slave trade. Also, a lot of prejudice grew agaist this type (because of slavery) So this came to be the mistakenly thought as being the only true black african that there was, and if an african didn't have these "*****" features, they were not really african or had to have mixture--which we know today is far from the truth. In fact, it is more-or-less understood that the eastern africans were the first and oldest blacks and all other blacks including west africans, derived from them. In fact, many west, central, and south african ethnic groups trace their origins to the east or the north of africa.

Answer 6

Oh that's great. "Atia..." and "Eww"... Perfect representatives of ill minded morons who love white stereotypes. But hey if you're jealous that's ok. That's the only reason I can see you saying any of that. Because those certainly don't encompass all white people. In fact, they describe a very small few. And Atia if you go by what you hear, you're a racist moron. Apparently you don't personally know any white person. So any time a white woman has curves, it's because we've got implants? Well hun, I've got plenty and I can assure you my size D breasts and full lips are not due to obesity, fat injections or implants. So, you can drop that stereotype right now.

Apparently I must not be white because I've got a size D chest, (and even though I'm pregnant) had it as 130lbs, full lips, and I could go on and on. So where in this thin lipped flat body stereotype do I fit in? Nowhere, because it's not true.

I don't know what white people you're looking at. My nose is not specifically thin long or pointy either. I'd also like to add that "Caucasian "does not represent all white people. I am not Caucasian but I am still considered "white" because I'm European. There's a big difference between Caucasian/Anglo/white-European in general. There's about 48 European countries and you will not go to one and notice ALL white people look the same. lol. That's just stupid. Just like Asians and Africans do not all look the same (as well as any other group of people).

Our lessened pigment gives us colored eyes and colored hair which is beautiful as well. Why do people hate on that attribute? Whites are some of the only people who naturally have it, and automatically people get angry and say "well you lack pigment because you're a freak and that's why".

Everyone else has almost the same colored eyes and the same colored hair (even many whites have the hazel/brown eyes and dark brunette/black hair). So to basically think lack of pigment is ugly is ridiculous. And we've got plenty of pigment. Just because we have less doesn't make us ugly or weird. It's allowed us to darken our skin more so than many non-white Hispanic and Asians out there. Many Asian's and non white Hispanics have a lot less pigment than African Americans. So I guess they're ugly too because they've got less pigment?

"Whites" do not come in one skin shade, eye color or hair color, or shape. Our hair is not all the same. It comes curly, wavy, straight. Our features are too diverse from each other all together to have a broad definition of what we're supposed to look like. And we do have pigment. If we had no pigment we'd be albino and you'd sure as hell never see us in the sun light.

All people are beautiful regardless of how much pigmentation they've got working in their skin. Why the hell should pigment matter? We all vary in skin color regardless of race. We all vary in shape. I was told all whites had big noses (I do not) thin lips (mine are full) and a flat body structure (I am a far cry from flat). I hate the stereotype I'm associated with. ::sigh::

Answer 7

There are none. As I've said more times than I can remember- Race is a valid social concept. But, as a scientific classification, it only applies to other species. To suggest otherwise is to be of the opinion that the Homo-sapien species can be divided into sub-species, which it cannot. There aren't enough biological differences between the so-called races to consider them separate and readily distinguishable races.

Biological race is an invention of the master class. After all, the master class couldn't sell us on "white superiority" without first selling us on the concept of race.


Those who argue that there ARE separate races/sub-species of homo-sapien- Tell ya what-
Round up as many people as you can- people who have physical characteristics commonly associated with all of the so-called races (*******, Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Australoid): the various hair textures, densities, and shapes; the many different eye colors, hair colors, and skin complexions, the sizes and shapes of noses, lips, and rumps; and so on... Once you've gathered them all together, prove that each person is of a particular biological "race" (or "mixed" with particular "races").

Won't do it.
Can't do it.
Impossible to do it.
End of story.

The idea of biological race is bull sh*t.

Answer 8

I'm not sure but I only see caucasions with pointy-as$ noses...like mine! My nose is long and pointy - like a halloween witches! LOL

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I wanted to add that, for those of you who are offended because we are discussing caucasion features, how do you think blacks felt for years when we did the same and talked down about and generalized their features! Duh?!?! Come on- live in someone else's shoes once in a while. It's good for you!

Answer 9

I don't know, bc I see dark dark West Africans with equine noses & thin lips all the time. Not necesary real long & point noses but not very broad. There exists different ethnicites of African ppl just like white, asian & hispanic. West Africans have never considered themselves all "one" ppl thruout history. There is a huge range in physical differences wheter its height, skin tone, hair texture or facial features. The Trans-Atlantic slave trade put them all into one category & its been that way ever since.

We're better off just loving those of us who have wide noses & full lips & expanding our definition of beauty past a Eurocentric veiwpoint. But I do wonder are all whites without a pointy nose considered mixed based on the def. of what "white features" are?

Answer 10

Some of these answers are pretty offensive. I don't have stringy or frizzy hair it is just different than black people's hair.

Answer 11

According to a 19th century German Antropologist Johan Friederich....Caucasians are the most symetrical. correct and best looking people on the planet..

I must say my gf comes from near there and IMO it's true...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race


of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder..