I'm going to try to say this without coming across as racist, if that's at all possible.
Physical appearance is determined by genes and DNA. Different people have different genes and DNA structures. In "white" race culture, due to the nature of history, many white races have been mixed, which is why a lot of white people do not resemble one another, because they are literally mixes of people from ALL OVER the world.
Whereas, in many asian countries, such as China and surrounding countries, throughout history it's typical for parters to be both 100% Chinese, 100% Japanese, 100% Cantonese, whatever it may be. Therefore, they have similar features and pass those similar features down to the next generation. There is nothing wrong with this, it's just the way that it has happened.
Then you get Asian people who are mixes of other races, which differ from the traditional <insert particular Asian country here> look. For example, a 100% Chinese man would look different to a 100% Japanese man. Just the same, a 50-Chinese-50-Romanian man would look different to a 50-Japanese-50-Romanian man. Whereas 100% Romanian men would have similar features, yet they are white. Not THE SAME, but similar. See where I'm going with this?
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Physical appearance is determined by genes and DNA. Different people have different genes and DNA structures. In "white" race culture, due to the nature of history, many white races have been mixed, which is why a lot of white people do not resemble one another, because they are literally mixes of people from ALL OVER the world.
Message this post is trying to articulate: White people mix with other cultures and produces a person that holds features from both ethnicities.
True.
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Whereas, in many asian countries, such as China and surrounding countries, throughout history it's typical for parters to be both 100% Chinese, 100% Japanese, 100% Cantonese, whatever it may be. Therefore, they have similar features and pass those similar features down to the next generation. There is nothing wrong with this, it's just the way that it has happened.
Then you get Asian people who are mixes of other races, which differ from the traditional <insert particular Asian country here> look. For example, a 100% Chinese man would look different to a 100% Japanese man. Just the same, a 50-Chinese-50-Romanian man would look different to a 50-Japanese-50-Romanian man. Whereas 100% Romanian men would have similar features, yet they are white. Not THE SAME, but similar. See where I'm going with this?
Message this post is trying to articulate: Minorities generally intermingle on specific accounts, however, their offspring is more similar to them.
False.
The Silk Road allowed for Eastern cultures to intermingle and on accounts, produce offspring. While this remained secluded from other cultures, interracial relationships have been common ever since the introduction of sea based transportation. These methods allowed for Europeans, Africans, and the like to target the ports from each hemisphere.
From here, we can establish that the racial genome has diversified, and a purebred "Chinese," "Japanese", nor "Romanian," no longer exists. While there are similarities that are shared with the offspring, ongoing avenues of interaction allowed for these similarities to change over time depending on whether the parental traits are dominant or recessive.
In conclusion: People of all races do not share the same features. People of all races are capable of having a feature from any race.
I'm going to try to say this without coming across as racist, if that's at all possible.
Physical appearance is determined by genes and DNA. Different people have different genes and DNA structures. In "white" race culture, due to the nature of history, many white races have been mixed, which is why a lot of white people do not resemble one another, because they are literally mixes of people from ALL OVER the world.
Not only does this not explain where race factors into DNA alleles (it doesn't), but why your explanation of why white people look different not extend to other races?
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Whereas, in many asian countries, such as China and surrounding countries, throughout history it's typical for parters to be both 100% Chinese, 100% Japanese, 100% Cantonese, whatever it may be. Therefore, they have similar features and pass those similar features down to the next generation. There is nothing wrong with this, it's just the way that it has happened.
Again, it's just as typical for people in those countries to only procreate within their race as it is for France, Denmark, Norway, Germany, etc.
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Then you get Asian people who are mixes of other races, which differ from the traditional <insert particular Asian country here> look. For example, a 100% Chinese man would look different to a 100% Japanese man. Just the same, a 50-Chinese-50-Romanian man would look different to a 50-Japanese-50-Romanian man. Whereas 100% Romanian men would have similar features, yet they are white. Not THE SAME, but similar. See where I'm going with this?
No, I don't get where you're going with this. If an Asian person differs from "the traditional <insert particular Asian country here> look" they're still Asian. So why does the myth of "the traditional <insert particular Asian country here> look" exist? Why are we willing to making exceptions for the varied phenotypes of white people but no one else? Do you see where I'm going with this?
Again, if white people are "mixing it up" or whatever and producing "different" looking people, then who the hell are they supposed to mixing with and having these "different" looking children?
Why does it matter? So many people are so quick to label someone as racist and jump to other conclusions. If someone isn't attracted to a certain particular race or etc. That's just their preference...you can't tell them that they're wrong. I like all groups of people because personality is what matters the most to ME, and I recognise that not everyone thinks that way and I don't fault them for it. It's not my business to what they find attractive and who they find attractive. Different folks, different strokes. It's stupid and pointless to tell someone what they can and can't like and how it views them as person.
BUT it is rude and unnecessary to broadcast that particular view like that. If you're not attracted to [insert race here], you don't have to go around saying "NO WHITES ALLOWED", "NO BLACKS ALLOWED", "NO MEXICANS ALLOWED" "DID YOU HEAR THAT? YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED ANYWHERE NEAR MY GENITALS!". There's a way to go about that without making them feeling like complete and other crap...you could at least try to find something in them that' s attractive, but no one has to force you.
Why does it matter? So many people are so quick to label someone as racist and jump to other conclusions. If someone isn't attracted to a certain particular race or etc. That's just their preference...you can't tell them that they're wrong. I like all groups of people because personality is what matters the most to ME, and I recognise that not everyone thinks that way and I don't fault them for it. It's not my business to what they find attractive and who they find attractive. Different folks, different strokes. It's stupid and pointless to tell someone what they can and can't like and how it views them as person.
BUT it is rude and unnecessary to broadcast that particular view like that. If you're not attracted to [insert race here], you don't have to go around saying "NO WHITES ALLOWED", "NO BLACKS ALLOWED", "NO MEXICANS ALLOWED" "DID YOU HEAR THAT? YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED ANYWHERE MY GENITALS!". There's a way to go about that without making them feeling like complete and other crap...you could at least try to find something in them that' attractive, but no one has to force you.
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Why does it matter? So many people are so quick to label someone as racist and jump to other conclusions. If someone isn't attracted to a certain particular race or etc. That's just their preference...you can't tell them that they're wrong.
Of course not, but when you're making such sweeping claims, I can definitely call you racist.
I agree with the second part of your post. I can't force attraction, but if you already have that perception of "oh this guy of this race is messaging me, I gotta block teehee," then all my posts in here are true. People tend to have this view of someone just because they're of a certain race, and that's the scalding tea of the day.
In conclusion: People of all races do not share the same features. People of all races are capable of having a feature from any race.
!!. This was one of the most basic things we learned in my Anthro class.
Race isn't even a genetic concept. It's a social construct. And $oldier is kinda showing how he's falling for the illusion.
Why does it matter? So many people are so quick to label someone as racist and jump to other conclusions. If someone isn't attracted to a certain particular race or etc. That's just their preference...you can't tell them that they're wrong. I like all groups of people because personality is what matters the most to ME, and I recognise that not everyone thinks that way and I don't fault them for it. It's not my business to what they find attractive and who they find attractive. Different folks, different strokes. It's stupid and pointless to tell someone what they can and can't like and how it views them as person.
BUT it is rude and unnecessary to broadcast that particular view like that. If you're not attracted to [insert race here], you don't have to go around saying "NO WHITES ALLOWED", "NO BLACKS ALLOWED", "NO MEXICANS ALLOWED" "DID YOU HEAR THAT? YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED ANYWHERE MY GENITALS!". There's a way to go about that without making them feeling like complete and other crap...you could at least try to find something in them that' attractive, but no one has to force you.
I agree with all of this. As I said in a previous post not everyone will be everyone's cup of tea just tone it done with the disrespectful tone. But I feel that when people go on and on about their non attractions to others they leave themselves open to being questioned.
Message this post is trying to articulate: White people mix with other cultures and produces a person that holds features from both ethnicities.
True.
Message this post is trying to articulate: Minorities generally intermingle on specific accounts, however, their offspring is more similar to them.
False.
The Silk Road allowed for Eastern cultures to intermingle and on accounts, produce offspring. While this remained secluded from other cultures, interracial relationships have been common ever since the introduction of sea based transportation. These methods allowed for Europeans, Africans, and the like to target the ports from each hemisphere.
From here, we can establish that the racial genome has diversified, and a purebred "Chinese," "Japanese", nor "Romanian," no longer exists. While there are similarities that are shared with the offspring, ongoing avenues of interaction allowed for these similarities to change over time depending on whether the parental traits are dominant or recessive.
In conclusion: People of all races do not share the same features. People of all races are capable of having a feature from any race.
In a way I find it both annoying and entertaining that you have to break down my comments and elaborate on each section in excess, providing facts and diagrams for each. You're on ATRL, not a debate team. But at the same time I respect that you're so passionate about this subject that you'd go to the trouble.
I've obviously offended a lot of people, which was never my intention.
I'd argue that most genes associated with the Asian races are dominant, so even if there were mixes, characteristics from other races would, more often then not, take the backseat. It is my opinion, and I know that I'm not alone in this, that a large portion (definitely not all, in fact not even most) members of Asian races look similar to others from their particular Asian country, whereas the same cannot be said about other countries with the major race being white.
In conclusion: People of all races do not share the same features.
True.
People of all races are capable of having a feature from any race.
Capable, yes. But in this statement, if you'll allow me to derive here, from the statement "...capable of having a feature from any race," insinuates that you too believe that pure races have specific similar features as the result of genes that can then be mixed in with another race to create different appearances. Correct?
It's not my business to what they find attractive and who they find attractive. Different folks, different strokes. It's stupid and pointless to tell someone what they can and can't like and how it views them as person.
Sure, but when you X out an entire race, it's just such an extreme position to hold.
I think it does merit some discussion as to why someone would feel like that.
Asian people HAVE mixed. There are people of Japanese/Korean/Indian/Nepalese/Philipino/Indonesian descent, just like there are white people of Romanian/Irish/Greek descent.
Why does it matter? So many people are so quick to label someone as racist and jump to other conclusions. If someone isn't attracted to a certain particular race or etc. That's just their preference...you can't tell them that they're wrong. I like all groups of people because personality is what matters the most to ME, and I recognise that not everyone thinks that way and I don't fault them for it. It's not my business to what they find attractive and who they find attractive. Different folks, different strokes. It's stupid and pointless to tell someone what they can and can't like and how it views them as person.
BUT it is rude and unnecessary to broadcast that particular view like that. If you're not attracted to [insert race here], you don't have to go around saying "NO WHITES ALLOWED", "NO BLACKS ALLOWED", "NO MEXICANS ALLOWED" "DID YOU HEAR THAT? YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED ANYWHERE NEAR MY GENITALS!". There's a way to go about that without making them feeling like complete and other crap...you could at least try to find something in them that' s attractive, but no one has to force you.
No one is asking anyone to find everyone attractive or to place more importance on personality over looks. I don't do that. I date hot people. We're telling you to stop blindly ascribing negative physical features to entire races of people, and if you insist on doing so, don't insult our intelligence by trying to tell us it's not racist.
It's not racist to state a PREFERENCE, but when you exclude a certain demographics and produce a sweeping statement that you find them all ugly, then that's racist.
That is called racial segregation, which is essentially RACISM.
at people clinging to race to state their preferences.
The amount of variation within races is so huge, something that a phrase like 'No Asians" doesn't even begin to consider. You don't like small eyes? Not all Asians have small eyes. You don't like black hair? Not all Asians have black hair. You can see where I'm going with this.
That someone would take the easy way out and generalize, rather than taking people of a different race as individuals is a huge red flag for racism.
at people clinging to race to state their preferences.