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-- Posted by Anonymous at 3:15 pm on June 26, 2008

They look very different to me as if they are not.
What do you think about it?

http://www.imageshare.web.id/images/aei4fi8abyw2f97riz7c.jpg
http://www.imageshare.web.id/images/td1wpi23pikbcb6dhqlq.jpg


-- Posted by savannaaa at 3:15 pm on June 26, 2008

Well not all white people look alike.


-- Posted by Syber at 3:16 pm on June 26, 2008

Quote: from savannaaa at 3:15 pm on June 26, 2008


Well not all white people look alike.

There Asian?...


-- Posted by Natsy at 3:16 pm on June 26, 2008

so?


-- Posted by EatMeTonight at 3:17 pm on June 26, 2008

They both look exactly the same too me, all Asians do that;s why i don't find Tila Tequila attractive


-- Posted by savannaaa at 3:17 pm on June 26, 2008

Quote: from Syber at 6:16 pm on June 26, 2008


Quote: from savannaaa at 3:15 pm on June 26, 2008

Well not all white people look alike.

There Asian?...


Obviously. I meant what can you expect from Asians, blacks, or anything else? Not all whites look the same. That's what I meant.


-- Posted by KendallMoc at 3:17 pm on June 26, 2008

So? People from the same race aren't supposed to look alike. White people sure don't.


-- Posted by bluerosedangel at 3:17 pm on June 26, 2008

Quote: from EatMeTonight at 5:17 pm on June 26, 2008


They both look exactly the same too me, all Asians do that;s why i don't find Tila Tequila attractive

Those people look completely different.


-- Posted by mikeyp123 at 3:18 pm on June 26, 2008

......have you not seen people before, or something?


-- Posted by EatMeTonight at 3:19 pm on June 26, 2008

Quote: from bluerosedangel at 3:17 pm on June 26, 2008


Quote: from EatMeTonight at 5:17 pm on June 26, 2008

They both look exactly the same too me, all Asians do that;s why i don't find Tila Tequila attractive

Those people look completely different.

Your all tricking me! everyone is in on it!!!


-- Posted by Anonymous at 3:20 pm on June 26, 2008

My point is that the one even could look mixed with white, but the other only looks a typically asian.


-- Posted by LudovicoTechnique at 3:31 pm on June 26, 2008

Thanks captain obvious. People do tend to look different.


-- Posted by Shaknbake at 3:20 pm on June 27, 2008

Quote: from Anonymous at 3:20 pm on June 26, 2008


My point is that the one even could look mixed with white, but the other only looks a typically asian.

A race is nothing but an arbitrary grouping of populations based on shared physical characteristics, and all races include a wide spectrum.

hence these individuals:
http://www.dukemrestaurant.com/Entertainment/Entertainers/Ethiopian_Music_Artist%5B1%5D.jpg
and these:
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/cepmlp/images/05022004-Nigerian Assoc.jpg

are considered to be the same "race" though they have some noticeably distinct physical characteristics.


-- Posted by MyBeautifulIllusion at 3:24 pm on June 27, 2008

Quote: from Shaknbake at 3:20 pm on June 27, 2008


Quote: from Anonymous at 3:20 pm on June 26, 2008

My point is that the one even could look mixed with white, but the other only looks a typically asian.

A race is nothing but an arbitrary grouping of populations based on shared physical characteristics, and all races include a wide spectrum.

hence these individuals:
http://www.dukemrestaurant.com/Entertainment/Entertainers/Ethiopian_Music_Artist%5B1%5D.jpg
and these:
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/cepmlp/images/05022004-Nigerian Assoc.jpg

are considered to be the same "race" though they have some noticeably distinct physical characteristics.



Ethiopia was, back in the B.C. era, notoriously affiliated with the Middle East, though, so they are bound to have Middle Eastern genes in their bloodlines. Trade was common between the Holy Lands and Ethiopian kings, and there's even a mention of an Ethiopian in the Bible.

Do you have a better example, perhaps?


-- Posted by Shaknbake at 3:30 pm on June 27, 2008

Quote: from MyBeautifulIllusion at 3:24 pm on June 27, 2008


Do you have a better example, perhaps?

You miss the point. Regardless of how Ethiopic populations came to have the traits they do, we ignorant, arrogant white Westerners are still apt to call an Ethiope a black man.

Race is nothing but common traits shared between various populations, and as these populations mix and change the flimsiness of the concept of race becomes more and more apparent.


-- Posted by Takinam at 6:30 pm on June 27, 2008

Can anyone prove that the Ethiopian population is of Middle Eastern ancestry without the injection of conjecture?

And the bible doesn't serve as proof for anything beyond faith.  

From what I've studied, the Ethiopian population is largely of homogenuous native Black ancestry having some traits that can be attributed to native descent. It is not the only African population with the Muslim religion yet people here seem to like to state that Muslim religion equates to Muslim ancestry. That isn't necessarily true unless you want to count the countless other African nations with said Muslim religion.


-- Posted by Headst0ck at 9:43 pm on June 27, 2008

What are you trying to get at? All asian people should look the same?


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