Nice large expressive eyes there on that young lady…likely brains behind that too.
Mystery of the Human Race is…WHERE did all the different races come from?
From the Judeo-Christian angle that’s a tough one…some say the ‘‘founders theory’’,
but even that’s a theory…the Tower of Babel thing was the confusion LANGUAGES, not specifically the ‘races’.
Impossible to answer, how did all the different looking Races/Colors come from only Adam and Steve?
Er’ I mean Eve…sorry. (“oh karado you and your silly jokes, but damn you have tough, challenging questions”)
[quote]Karado wrote:
Nice large expressive eyes there on that young lady…likely brains behind that too.
Mystery of the Human Race is…WHERE did all the different races come from?
From the Judeo-Christian angle that’s a tough one…some say the ‘‘founders theory’’,
but even that’s a theory…the Tower of Babel thing was the confusion LANGUAGES, not specifically the ‘races’.
Impossible to answer, how did all the different looking Races/Colors come from only Adam and Steve?
Er’ I mean Eve…sorry. (“oh karado you and your silly jokes, but damn you have tough, challenging questions”)
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No mystery.
Natural selection and adaptation to divergent ecological niches over a very, very long timeline.
Hmmm,…So for example if everyone on Earth dies EXCEPT Justin Beiber and Miley Cyrus,
and they have babies, and their Brothers and Sisters MUST have sex to propagate the species, we would eventually have the
SAME racial diversity we do now over time?
Japanese, Africans, East Indians, etc,…all from ONLY Justin and Miley’s DNA huh?
wow.
You’re assuming that only two individuals of our species were involved.
This is erroneous.
Also failing to take into account other human species that could have interbred with what we would consider modern humans, which probably also accounts for some of the racial diversity we see today. A lot of white Europeans probably have more than a little Neandertal DNA in their genome.
But it should come as no shock to you that lighter skinned people tend to live farther from the equator, and darker skinned people live closer to it. This is just one example of a trait being selected because it confers fitness under specific conditions: light skin is an adaptation to a less-sunny region, because light skin is more efficient at producing vitamin D than dark skin.
The different races are nothing more than genetic differences repeated and amplified through individuals selecting partners who resemble themselves, coupled with isolation of the several breeding populations in vastly divergent habitats, over several hundred thousand years, allowing these subtle traits to become defining features.
So The Biblical ‘‘Adam And Eve’’ is horseshit then, ALL the races simply could not have come from ONLY those two then…allegedly the first two humans on the Planet…I can live with that opinion…too many sticking points in the ancient texts I won’t touch anyway.
Too many mysteries…I wonder what the Buddhists and Shinto’s beliefs are on the origin of different races?
[quote]Karado wrote:
So The Biblical ‘‘Adam And Eve’’ is horseshit then, ALL the races simply could not have come from ONLY those two then…allegedly the first two humans on the Planet…I can live with that opinion…too many sticking points in the ancient texts I won’t touch anyway.
Too many mysteries…I wonder what the Buddhists and Shinto’s beliefs are on the origin of different races?[/quote]
Carl Sagan wrote a fascinating book called Dragons of Eden where he looks at the Adam and Eve myth as a metaphor for human evolution. It’s pretty interesting if you’re actually interested in such things.
Ah yes, haven’t read that one but read his ‘‘The Demon Haunted World’’ by a friend’s recommendation
long ago (yes, I have friends)…loved the book.
Sagan…weed smoker…
I’ve lived on Higashi-Nakano on Tokyo on 2010, traveled on 2005 and 2013 for vacations and once i finish college(probably around 2015) I will go back to Tokyo to live for a few years.
I still remember my first time going to a Gold’s Gym and in the admission formulary there was questions regarding to tattoos, was told that i was only able to train if i changed myself in the locker-room very carefully and with my back facing the wall in order not to scare the elderly customers.
This is all very interesting. I know a woman who went to Japan to teach English and ended up marrying a Japanese man. He spend the first several years of his life in the US, and even though he moved back to Tokyo when he was still young and has not really traveled outside of Japan much since then, the reason they had a relationship was because he spoke very good English.
He does not work but looks after his mother and the wife teaches English. She still struggles with the language a bit and I visited them in Tokyo during my first ever (three day) trip to Japan. Being in my 40s I have had many years of seeing/reading about Japan/Tokyo on TV and films/books and newspapers, and must admit I didn’t see anything in Tokyo that I found extremely surprising or unexpected to be honest.
I really liked the city but was expecting to see a few more westerners. However, I was told (by the guy I was talking about above) that a lot left in 2011 after the earthquake/tsunami and never came back. Not sure if that is true. I was also pleasantly surprised by how many very attractive women there were and people generally were very well turned out. Only some very young kids were staring at me on the subway (I am fairly tall and fair-haired). Two Japanese women even stopped to help me when I was looking puzzled over subway maps.
The Blanchir line, Kanebo’s premium product line for Japanese ladies who wannabe white.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
[quote]harrypotter wrote:
This obsession with large eyes from Asians. Do they see Caucasians as superior in this way? [/quote]
It’s not just Asians - generally in every non white culture, the lighter you are, the more attractive you are considered.[/quote]
Well, sort of. Traditionally it’s a class thing.
The lower classes labored in the sun and got darker.
The upper classes supervised in the shade and got lighter.
People try to emulate the upper classes, so we have things like face powder and sunscreen and bihaku. What is bihaku? It’s a Japanese expression that means literally “beautiful whiteness”, as in the beauty of white skin. When I was an ad man I devoted much time and energy marketing Kanebo’s Blanchir line of …essentially face bleach to women in East and Southeast Asia, where there is a HYUUUUGE market for it. It has nothing to do with "looking Caucasian, nor really does the “anime eyes” thing (that has more to do with the universal eyes-to-face cuteness ratio understood intuitively by almost all mammals).
Ironically in Western society this is skewed, however: the lower classes huddle in front of computers in cubicles and get paler, while the upper classes sip mai-tais on beaches in the Caribbean, and get more tan. So you have low-class poseurs basking in tanning booths and slathering on fake tan paint. Same thing, in reverse (in Japanese we call this ganguro, “layin’ on da BLACK”). It’s not that the Caucasians who do this want to look black, Mexican, Indian or whatever, it’s an aesthetic thing. They want to look like the rich leisure class. Whether they realize it or not.
For therajraj: has nothing directly to do with Asian women, but does further illustrate why some American men might prefer foreign models over the domestics.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
For therajraj: has nothing directly to do with Asian women, but does further illustrate why some American men might prefer foreign models over the domestics. [/quote]
What about the men?
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
For therajraj: has nothing directly to do with Asian women, but does further illustrate why some American men might prefer foreign models over the domestics. [/quote]
What about the men?[/quote]
The ones who go after the foreign models tend to have more attributes on the left column, whereas the ones who think American women are the hottest on the planet typically have more attributes from the right column, and will likely never leave Murka anyway, so it all balances out.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
For therajraj: has nothing directly to do with Asian women, but does further illustrate why some American men might prefer foreign models over the domestics. [/quote]
I think the best analogy I’ve heard with regards to women is: they are like water. They take the shape of whatever container (society) they’re put in.
Take a look at pics of American women from the 60’s vs now. Night and day.
[quote]kaisermetal wrote:
I still remember my first time going to a Gold’s Gym and in the admission formulary there was questions regarding to tattoos, was told that i was only able to train if i changed myself in the locker-room very carefully and with my back facing the wall in order not to scare the elderly customers.
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How well equipped are the Gold’s Gyms ? I was in 2 small gyms and they did not even have a barbell, only a room full with machines and dumbbells up to 15kg.
I heard that Gold’s in Japan must be pretty expensive. How much does it cost per month?
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Nah, man. You’re good. Austria’s WAAAY behind the Czech Republic as far as fatties go. http://www.expats.cz/prague/article/weekly-czech-news/czech-republic-fattest-country-in-europe/
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I’m actually german and I remember that the SZ Newspaper had a headline about Germany being Europe’s most obese country last year. Praha might be filled with fatties but it’s also filled with hot chicks. Guess that’s what you call natural balance.
What am I gonna do? There’s gotta be a cure!
It seems like in return american chicks prefer european guys.
My buddy spend a couple of months in South Carolina and told me that basically every woman he met wanted to go out with him and treated him way nicer once he told her where he was from.
So what we can learn from this is:
Be from europe → you win
