In the article “Skin Deep”, authors Jablonski and Chaplin discuss the various theories that have been proposed as to why there is variation in skin color among modern humans. Using knowledge of the human anatomy along with scientific findings, both old and new, the authors have put together a comparison between each hypothesized theory. As stated in the reading, it was figured long ago that it isn't a matter of luck of which shade of color belongs to a certain population. Distribution of skin color happens due to “natural selection acting to regulate the effects of the sun's ultraviolet radiation on key nutrients crucial to reproductive success”, according to the authors. The first argument that was discussed in the article was that darker
In the article Skin Deep written by Nina Jablonski and George Chaplin, they discuss and look deeper into the diverse differences in skin color. Our skin color has developed over the years to be dark enough to prevent the damaging sunlight that has been harming our skin and the nutrient folate that it carries. At the same time out skin is light enough to receive vitamin D.
People are treated so differently based on the color of their skin. Skin color was a huge deciding factor on marriage and creating offspring. Clare is described to have ivory colored skin despite of her mi...
In chapter one of Dusk of Dawn, “The Plot,” is a socio-historical perspective on how the concept of race has evolved. The concept of race has evolved from biological difference in skin pigmentation, to biological superiority and inferiority, and then
The sun makes Vitamin D therefore those in colder regions with less sunlight are at a disadvantage although there are other supplements such as tanning salons and cod-liver fish oils. Although the sun produces Vitamin D, it also destroys folic acid. People with darker skin can prevent the depletion of folic acid better than those with lighter skin, but people with darker skin would have to carry more cholesterol to utilize the sun’s benefits. Folic acid aids in cell replication and the cell growth system. Melanin is a pigment that absorbs light and determines the darkness of skin color along with hair and eye color. This chapter also introduces the gene ApoE4, which is related to evolution. ApoE4 makes sure that people with darker skin have higher levels of cholesterol, therefore aiding the production of Vitamin D. But we also learn the flaw that ApoE4 can also increase the chances of heart attacks and
Every species on earth has it's variants. For example, the differences between Wood Ducks and Mallards have evolved for specific reasons - namely, those which best ensure the survival of the Duck species in different environments. The same applies to humans. The Negro race has evolved under a certain set of conditions and those conditions differed vastly from those under which the Nordic Aryan race evolved. Whereas the Nordic Aryan needed warmth and shelter in the cold climates of Europe and consequently developed a more hairy body, light skin, and a narrow shaped nose among other things, the Negro, lavishing in the hot climate of Africa, needed cooling and therefore devoloped a flatter nose, a body with minimal hair, and a flatter, broader nose. This type of genetic diversity which has evolved over many thousands of years in order to better adapt us for our respective environments is being destroyed with miscegination - that is - "race-mixing".
Your skin pigment or the amount of melanin in you skin has the ability to change your whole outlook on life and determines if you will possibly have fewer or more challenges to face during your lifespan. The amount for melanin that an individual has according to society can determine if you are either the ugly duckling through societies eyes or if you are a beautiful swan. In this short paper I will be discussing the Dark Girls documentary.
Vitiligo is a skin pigmentation disorder with multiple potential origins. Vitiligo appears on the body’s surface as depigmented white patches, however vitiligo is also known to occur in the mucous membranes, in the eyes and the hair. The rare skin disorder can appear at any age but most people who experience vitiligo patches see the onset in their early twenties. Very little is known about the mechanism behind vitiligo9. The scientific theory behind why the white patches emerge on a person are still being tested however many people have different ideas as to the reason people may suffer from this disorder. Some researchers believe that certain life experiences and impulses cause vitiligo onset10. For example, in multiple research studies patients
“Black, white and brown are merely skin colors. But we attach to them meanings and assumptions, even laws that create enduring social inequality.”(Adelman and Smith 2003). When I first heard this quote in this film, I was not surprised about it. Each human is unique compared to the other; however, we are group together based on uncontrollable physical characteristics. Eyes, hair texture, and skin tone became a way to separate who belongs where. Each group was labeled as having the same traits. African Americans were physically superior, Asians were the more intellectual race, and Indians were the advanced farmers. Certain races became superior to the next and society shaped their hierarchy on what genes you inherited.
The color of your skin used to depend on where you live. (Before transportation became so easy.) Darker skinned people would live where it is hotter, and the sun shines more. Lighter skinned people would live in cooler, less sunny areas. This is because the darker pigments in your skin would keep you from burning.
The issue of “skin whitening” is caused by the oppression of colonization, racism within and outside of the same race, and social injustice to women. Townes said that “race is a social construction as well as a cultural production where there are both implicit and explicit costs and benefits to collapsing race into uninterrogated coloredness.” The popularity of “skin whitening” in most colored people countries reminds people of the existence of global racism problem, especially the racial discrimination to women. The past centuries’ feminist movement and liberation movement have not completed, and will have to continue for a long time. Compared to the physical liberation, the more important thing for colored people or women is the liberation
Once homo sapiens began to spread across the globe, pigmentation was subject to many evolutionary forces: new environmental pressures, mutation, drift, and sexual selection. Hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution and new and changing environments are key to New World population variance of skin pigmentation. Skin coloration is highly adaptive and has evolved to the needs of humans as they have spread across the Earth. Differing regions of Earth receive different amounts of UVMED which leads to the types of melanin produced by the skin. Darker skin with more melanin is needed to protect folate and sweat glands in humans. UVMED is more concentrated nearest the equator which is why darker pigmented people are found in that region. In areas of low UVMED, adaptations occur over, relatively speaking, short periods of geologic time. Skin pigmentation has no relevance when assessing phylogenetic relationships among human groups due to the fact that human skin pigmentation is determined by the amount of UVMED in one’s environment. UVR has direct and indirect effects on one’s reproductive fitness. Populations who have inhabited their current environment for about 10-20,000 years follow the predictions of skin pigmentation closely, those who recently migrated to their current area show less relation of predicted skin pigmentation. Cultural practices have also had significant influence on the determination
There’s a mounting inclination for people to revise their racial topographies from double eyelid surgery, to chin grafts, to skin allaying or obscuring. In some cases, patients undertaking such ethnic cosmetic surgery say they are doing so to achieve a more exotic look. While others claim the process is not intent on looking more Caucasian but it is just about being more striking. Insight looks at the budding number of folks who are keen to modification of their racial sorts in the quest for beauty, what is prompting them to go to such extents, and what is regarded beautiful currently
The film “Modern Times,” directed by Charlie Chaplin, is set in the mid nineteen thirties. This time frame places the characters in the middle of the Great Depression and the industrial revolution. The film depicts the lifestyle and quality of living for people in this era by showing a factory worker who cannot take the monotony of working on an assembly line. The film follows the factory worker through many of his adventures throughout the film. The film’s main stars are Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard.
Appearance related comments based on rac8e are different for every person. Some take it seriously, and others see it as a normal occurrence. In today's world, a person must make their own personality, and identity plays an important role. However, a person’s race is going hand in hand because skin color is the first thing people see when meeting someone new. A person’s appearance depends on how they carry themselves and how they represent themselves in front of the society. I am proud to say that I come from an Indian background, and I am proud that I am still attached to my culture and ethnicity. My own ethnical, racial, and national background, is an important foundation to of my appearance and race in my life. Racism affects every level of life, including appearance and background, which is wrong and should be