A Pigment Of The Imagination
If you could give all people the same skin color, not a single race will disappear from our planet. The differences between us are for too great. It is almost as if we evolved on different planets and were all put together as part of some bizarre experiment.
But what is race? If you dress a Frenchman and a German in identical American suits you will not be able to tell who is what. They are of different nationalities but of the same race. Now you dress a Chinese man and an Englishman in the same suits and you will immediately know they are from different races; even if the Chinese man was born in England.
The country of your birth does not determine your race, only your nationality.
I was born in Africa and my family have been here for more than 350 years. I am still not an African. While I may have some African and Malaysian blood in my veins, it is too little and too far back. I am European, no matter how you look at me.
There are many nations in Africa. The people from Ghana may look very similar to Nigerians and may differ somewhat from the Xhosa people of South Africa but they have much more in common as a race than what separates them.
Indians and Pakistanis are Asians but they look very much different than the Japanese. Are they of the same race? I think not. What about the native people of Australia, New Zealand and America; where do they fit into the picture?
I can go on like this for hours but it will serve no purpose.
What is for certain is that the color of your skin is only one very small characteristic of your race. The main components peculiar to your race is above your shoulders.
You cannot tell race by looking at a person’s hands, feet, genitals or any other body part but show your face and we will immediately know what you are.
May you have a colorful day.
Comments (59)
I think we were all put here, as you say, as an "experiment": to learn to live in peace & harmony. Halleluya.
I don´t really know what I am. And to be honest couldnt care less. I like to think I belong to the human race. In winter I am very white and pale. When summer comes and if i go in sun (I love sun )I can turn very brown. Maybe I am some mixed human, no clue tho.
Have a great day
There is only one race in this world
'The Human Race'.
Yes, As humans we are all the same. We all have the same features that separate us from other species and and such we should respect each other.
No problem about the larger font. My eyes are old.
yes we can tell what their race when we see their look. American, Ausi and NZ we can say caucasian or European.
Indonesia and Malaysia in same race - Melayu.
or other country with their characteristic.
only one country I quite confuse is Turkey. After many time I visited that country, I could see many looks I found there.. some of them/region look like caucasian, some of them/region look like Arabian, but some of them/region not look like both...
IMO, maybe because the Turkish state is located between the continents of Europe and Asia and middle east... so what race we should say in general ?
What is the point in being born free when we are taxed to death.
It is very easy to see what you are. A suntan in summer does not change your race. And I'm sorry but humans are not a race. We are a species consisting of many races.
The is no human race. We are a species and to pretend that we are all the same is silly. Even a small child can notice the differences between races. The importance is that we should respect our difference. No race is superior to another. We may be equal but not the same.
Blue Lagoon? I would not have minded to be marooned on an island with Brooke Shields in her heyday.
never mind I know for a fact I´m a happy idiot
(wonder what race that is)
There are many countries like that. The nation need not be of the same race. Look at the USA; many races make up the population of the USA. And you get Englishman and Frenchman who look like Africans. Races are no longer bound to certain regions.
I did not imply that you are not a human. And I repeat. Humans are a species, not a race. Our race does not make us inferior or superior to any other race, only different.
that's just one of prove the riches of Turkey..
I use to have a contest with myself out here on the Photo Gallery. I look at a person and try to guess what land this person does come from by the way he looks and I am right must of the time.
But beside having fun with this,
Mitakuye Oyasin
is the words to remember for all of us!
Let's look at the animals world. All dogs are one species but amongst dogs you get many different races, also called breeds. We don't pretend that dog races are all the same, so why do we want to pretend that human races are all the same? There is no disgrace in being different. After all, people belonging to the same race differ. That is how we recognize each other. Because, although we share the same looks, we are not the same.
As white as I am, one of my four maternal great grandmothers was black. Two generations earlier two others were Malaysian. There was a big shortage of women in the country and a large number of Malaysian 'brides' were imported. Mostly orphans.
humanitarian agenda. Nice to read your blog.
All cats say meow.
Ow I remember one case :
Algerian, lybian, tunisian, Moroccan, egytian... What race are they? African or arab ? Their first languages are arab, second language is french, they look european (most of them) and they are angry when I told them that they are african as geographically the countries located in africa continent....
You're always welcome my friend.
Be that as it may but I can tell that you and I are of the same race and we are not Chinese, African or Native American. People will shake their heads in disbelieve if we should make such claim.
why?
I would like us to be like chameleons to blend with our environment. Failing that, green with brown freckles.
It will save a lot of trouble having to camouflage ourselves when we go to war.
What one person find to be silly may proof to be very interesting or amusing to another. It is the diversity of the blogs that makes it so popular.
thanks but I have a small difference in opinion about recognizing Americans.
You only need to look at them when they smile. No other nation can smile as broad and as handsomely as the Americans. It is an art mastered to perfection by the Americans.
I am 50% Native American Indian & 50 % Creole.
( I am a colour girl)...Yeahhh!
Hey Sweet Sugar!................
Yes, that is my point. there is not a single trait that determines your race. It is the combinations of several characteristics that does it. I have seen 'African' four albinos in my life. White skins, blue eyes and straw colored hair but there was no way you could make a mistake about their race.
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But then Creole is also a very loose term. You got French Creoles, Spanish Creoles, Black Creoles and what else.
Originally it was any person of African or European (mostly French or Spanish) descent, born and raised in the West Indies or parts of French or Spanish America.