Some whites are more black than you think, and some blacks are more white than you think

[Drew_Ali]

This confirms that race is biological........

Actually, "race" is a social construct.

What this study does is seek genetic genotypes and phenotypes according to West African haplotypes, and try to identify their existence in European Americans, and then vice versa for blacks with European-specific haplotypes.

Basing your kinship to other people of the same skin colour is entirely based on social experience and relatability on a social level. Genetically, there's more variation within Africa itself (say, hypothetically, between West Africans in Mali and South Africa).

It wouldn't be a ridiculous notion to assume West Africans from Mali or Ghana et al prior to enslavement weren't closer genetically to Western Europeans or the Japanese than they were to South Africans.

Your idea of "race" comes entirely from the distinguishing of genetic phenotypes that have become dominant physical expressions through generations and generations of natural selection, but probably moreso b/c of social constructions like war or predominant ideas of beauty, etc.

I understand what you are saying, I am an Anthropologist.......

However.........

The idea that there are no races or that race is solely a "social construct" is misleading........

If that were the case.......

There would be no way to genetically identify a persons continental origins.........

As illustrated in your op...........................

 

[NoCompetition]

This confirms that race is biological........

Actually, "race" is a social construct.

What this study does is seek genetic genotypes and phenotypes according to West African haplotypes, and try to identify their existence in European Americans, and then vice versa for blacks with European-specific haplotypes.

Basing your kinship to other people of the same skin colour is entirely based on social experience and relatability on a social level. Genetically, there's more variation within Africa itself (say, hypothetically, between West Africans in Mali and South Africa).

It wouldn't be a ridiculous notion to assume West Africans from Mali or Ghana et al prior to enslavement weren't closer genetically to Western Europeans or the Japanese than they were to South Africans.

Your idea of "race" comes entirely from the distinguishing of genetic phenotypes that have become dominant physical expressions through generations and generations of natural selection, but probably moreso b/c of social constructions like war or predominant ideas of beauty, etc.

I understand what you are saying, I am an Anthropologist.......

However.........

The idea that there are no races or that race is solely a "social construct" is misleading........

If that were the case.......

There would be no way to genetically identify a persons continental origins.........

As illustrated in your op...........................

I look at these things as "traits". If a persons ancestors migrated from Africa to Norway and had albinism, over thousands of years certain things would be different than people who's ancestors stayed in Africa and had full melanin. They ate different things and hand different inputs. Obviously. But aint no barriers that separate "races" everybody is cousins. But a person's genes are subtly different than somebody who lives up the street. The old 1800s way of lookin at things is nonsense.

 

[Drew_Ali]

This confirms that race is biological........

Actually, "race" is a social construct.

What this study does is seek genetic genotypes and phenotypes according to West African haplotypes, and try to identify their existence in European Americans, and then vice versa for blacks with European-specific haplotypes.

Basing your kinship to other people of the same skin colour is entirely based on social experience and relatability on a social level. Genetically, there's more variation within Africa itself (say, hypothetically, between West Africans in Mali and South Africa).

It wouldn't be a ridiculous notion to assume West Africans from Mali or Ghana et al prior to enslavement weren't closer genetically to Western Europeans or the Japanese than they were to South Africans.

Your idea of "race" comes entirely from the distinguishing of genetic phenotypes that have become dominant physical expressions through generations and generations of natural selection, but probably moreso b/c of social constructions like war or predominant ideas of beauty, etc.

I understand what you are saying, I am an Anthropologist.......

However.........

The idea that there are no races or that race is solely a "social construct" is misleading........

If that were the case.......

There would be no way to genetically identify a persons continental origins.........

As illustrated in your op...........................

I look at these things as "traits". If a persons ancestors migrated from Africa to Norway and had albinism, over thousands of years certain things would be different than people who's ancestors stayed in Africa and had full melanin. They ate different things and hand different inputs. Obviously. But aint no barriers that separate "races" everybody is cousins. But a person's genes are subtly different than somebody who lives up the street. The old 1800s way of lookin at things is nonsense.

Niggas will prolly catch feelings...........

However this illustrates some of the genetic variations in humans................

 

[Drew_Ali]

LOL..........

 

[janklow]

A classmate of mine identifies as white but I swear she looks 100 percent latina

I wanna ask her but I dont wanna seem like a weirdo

these are not mutually exclusive

 

[BelovedAfeni]

Every year around black history month

some suspect "study" gets published. coincedence?

Remeber "Why black women are less attractive than white woman"?

SMMFH