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macaroniandcheese 
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Message 46 of 65 (161376)
11-19-2004 1:58 AM
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11-18-2004 4:32 PM


Re: An Interesting Find
there are no original indigenous groups like that... however, the people in non-indigenous areas are moving in those directions.

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Message 50 of 65 (161499)
11-19-2004 1:41 PM
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11-19-2004 3:26 AM


Re: An Interesting Find
you don't pay much attention to people do you?

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Message 51 of 65 (161500)
11-19-2004 1:43 PM
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11-19-2004 1:21 PM


Re: An Interesting Find
that's what i've been saying all along...

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Message 58 of 65 (161699)
11-20-2004 12:14 AM
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11-19-2004 2:01 PM


Re: An Interesting Find
quite so. i was simply trying to add another piece to the puzzle since everyone had decided that the only differentiation or skin tone was caused by uv exposure ... which conveniently saves everyone from sounding racist in any way. i think it's quite stupid to bother avoiding sounding like anything... people who make accusations of such are simply looking for trouble.

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Message 59 of 65 (161712)
11-20-2004 12:39 AM
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11-19-2004 2:00 PM


Re: An Interesting Find
the descent of man, and selections relating to sex.
darwin wrote it about twelve years after he whote his more famous book... it entirely discounts natural selection as a cause of racial variation amongst humans.
the below information is paraphrased from the third chimpanzee which i already suggested you read.
tasmanians have very dark skin and their area recieves very little sunlight. (btw. australian aborigines and their tasmanian compatriots have lived there for 50,000 years. more than long enough to adapt to the lower uv since most europeans have been in their indigenous home much less time. par example. scandinavia has only been inhabited for 9,000 years.)
no one in the new world has very dark skin immaterial of uv exposure.
parts of asia with excessive uv exposure boast only medium-toned peoples.
"when one takes cloud cover into account, the world's most dimly lit areas, recieving a daily average of under 3.5 hours of sunlight, include parts of equatorial west africa, south china, and scandinavia, inhabited respectively by some of the world's blackest, yellowest, and palest peoples!" (diamond 115).
in the solomon islands (sorry. i thought it was new guinea... wrong place it's been a while since i read it.) there are indigenous people with very dark skin and very light skin living within short distances of each other.

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Message 62 of 65 (162346)
11-22-2004 12:41 PM
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11-22-2004 9:03 AM


Re: An Interesting Find
blah blah blah.
to avoid looking into a subject beyond the easy 'i'm not going to look like a bad person if i use this argument' idea (as this thread did until i came along) is stupid. people are different. none is inferior (except stupid people who don't try for more) but all are different and if we don't figure out why then we can only be trapped in more ignorance. me not wanting (or more specifically not caring) people to accuse me of racism simply because i sought out different options has nothing to do with theosophists. stupid people are stupid.
bugger off.

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Message 64 of 65 (162645)
11-23-2004 12:02 PM
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11-23-2004 4:22 AM


Re: An Interesting Find
no. people who accuse people of racism while involved in an intellectual discussion (in which foolish things like racism have no place) are being argumentative and irritating.
and you are participating in personal attacks and i don't appreciate it.

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