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Vitamin D (5.00 / 1) (#18)
by joejoejoe on Sat Nov 10, 2007 at 07:44:42 PM EST
'Race' is the amount of pigmentation in your skin determined by the latitude your ancestors lived in over hundreds of years. Darker skins block damaging rays near the equator. Lighter skins allow for more sunlight to penetrate to metabolize vitamin D in places where days were short and sunlight sometimes limited. As humans developed the technology and culture to move greater differences you had mixing of these once long stable genetic pools. Everything else related to 'race' is BS.

I am 'caucasian', or so I'm told (none / 0) (#19)
by Edger on Sat Nov 10, 2007 at 07:52:13 PM EST
Unfortunately there are some 'caucasians' that don't seem bright enough to grasp what you just said.

I don't think it has much to do with them being 'caucasian'... I think it has more to do with a deficiency in their ability to understand that they are not 'separate' from the world.

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