Asclepias
Diamond Member
No, they are race designations. Now if you want to skip that and just say we're all human, I'm good with that. I was taught however, that blacks in India were not Negroid, but actually Caucasian. This is way we shouldn't be so caught up on color. Besides, today, with all the integration between the races, who the heck cares?
You thought I was gonna pick the woman, didn't you?
Your beleif in race designations are based on what some European guy with an agenda came up with long ago. From what I recall or can find no Black person was asked to contribute in this decision. Think about this way. Where is Negro located at as opposed to the Caucasus mountains and Mongolia? Its ok if you want to maintain the same mindset but as a intelligent person I don't let people define what I am. i reserve that right for myself. Everyone that gets uncomfortable with this usually says "who cares" after I point this out. I usually say..."well you do" because you were talking about it or debating with me about it. I really didn't care who you picked. The point was that technically these people are not considered African even though their ancestors came from Africa and you could drop them in Africa and no one would know the difference unless they told you. Now how does that make sense...at all?
I think the man you chose has Negroid blood and I can tell the difference between them. Just as I can tell the difference between the Japanese people and the Okinawan people. I've hosted both, there are slight differences in their physical characteristics. Now, does that mean I can tell the difference between all Okinawan people and all Japanese people? No! Why? Because some people from Japan have integrated with some of the Okinawan people and vice a versa.
I find race interesting because there are physical differences. I want to know why. Why are blacks black? Why do Japanese and Chinese people have slanted eyes? Why is my skin so fair? Why do I show my age more than my Japanese friends. Why are black Indians Caucasian and why are black Africans Negroid? What made the different facial characteristics?
I just happen to be interested in different cultures and different peoples. Met a man from the Congo recently and bored him with all my questions about his people and culture.
Another very interesting thing is the rocks in Mexico that have the human faces carved on them. Those are Negroid features. To me this means that people from Africa traveled to Mexico thousands of years before the Europeans, or at least the Europeans we know about.
That's why I call BS on the racial designations. That guy is Melanesian and genetically he is furthest away from supposedly Negroid/Sub-Saharan. He is considered Australoid and descended from Aborigines...who were the first out of Africa. You would be surprised how many Black groups are located around the world that no one calls Black. You never see them on TV but they are there in almost every country. Most of them are indigenous.
The rocks in Mexico are call the Olmec heads and lots of them indeed look African. Some of them even have braids. The Smithsonian knew about them when they were first discovered but did not let anyone know about it for years. The excuse for them looking "Negroid" is that they sat in the mud too long or they were really statues of dwarves, anything to keep from calling them Black.