Posted on 01/30/2014 3:40:47 PM PST by MNDude
Yep. The African dark hair, skin and eyes don't absorb the sun so much because they get PLENTY of sun anyway and don't need the "absorbing" skin, hair and eye colors.
Apparently, the reason the northern folks have such light hair, eyes and skin is because they absorb the "rarer" sunlight easier than the darker hair, skin and eyes. At least, that's the latest reason for color. Nordic folks get SIX months of darkness.
I was in Finland during June one year, wearing my SUNGLASSES at 10:30 at night. Mind you, the sun came up but never rose more than a few degrees above the horizon. So strange.
Also in Finland (Suomi) I NEVER saw so many drunks (all men) IN MY LIFE. They were scattered all over Helsinki, drunk as wheelbarrows.
Finland DID have the BEST ice cream I ever tasted....must be LOADED in butter fat.
Lol. Duh!
Biracial, multi-ethnic, multi-denominational, bi-lingual, right eye dominant Southpaws... my family sometimes doesn’t know if its coming or going!
“George Zimmerman is one eighth black and three eighths native South American”
Is that correct? I thought it was 3/8 white.
It’s about vitamin D creation, which is done with the assistance of UV light.
Obviously blacker skin absorbs more light...but absorbs it generally before it penetrates very far.
Thanks for you impressions of Finland. Also a very high suicide rate.
Now you can ponder why Nordic dogs (huskies etc) tend to have blue eyes same as Nordic people
Why, so they do!
Duck Dynasty guy has an adopted Chinese (Asian?) daughter
Yes, I know.
Half white through his dad.
His mom was from some village up in Peru, with an African grandfather. Pictures of Zimmerman’s mom with her grandparents show a pretty dark skinned family, and if you watched her and Zimmerman’s uncle during the trial they are a lot darker than most African Americans despite being only one eighth African.
The open pride in their multiracial heritage was unhinging to the Sharpton/Jackson crowd.
How do you get reparations and group guilt if we become one people?
When my sister went to Finland in 1959, she was shocked that all the people jumped into the sauna NAKED!
She wore her bathing suit.
Morena Latina wife appears to be morena Latina. After nearly 20 years, well, when did that happen?!?
This right winger has no problem with such families.My concerns are that they be married, one man one woman, and best if Christian or Jewish.
They're laughing now. I feel so persecuted... : )
I have seen that, too. I have found myself in conversation with some that turned to reasons why they got married. Both sides tended to say things like it was impossible to find like minded (conservative, wanting to be married, not hooking up, among same race others.
I have no issue with biracial families. When a man loves a woman.... I do look on in wonderment at bipartisan families. Not allowed in our house. :-}
When WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) was the term of derision for the dominant American culture Walter Williams used to call American Negros BASPs because they shared the dominant culture and had nothing in common with Africa beyond some of their genes.
Duck Dynasty’s Willie and Korie adopted a black child and named him after Willie. But libs hate the Robertsons. Libs also come unglued when a white family wants to adopt a black child because the poor kid won’t know his culture.
My four kids are all ‘halfies’. Me - I’m an American mutt (says ‘negro’ on my bc), and my wife is German/Irish by blood.
Yep. There's almost no such thing as a racially pure black American. My family DNA is European, African, and Native American.
The 'one drop' rule still applies, though.
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