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Post by murphee on Nov 1, 2005 12:36:48 GMT -5
I've been to Alaska--and Hawaii, the Cook Islands, and Texas at 107 degrees Fahrenheit two months ago. I like the shade trees, and of course never sunbathe. I wear a hat and clothes, otherwise I can enjoy the sun and heat, but just not letting sun hit the skin. I do prefer dark, colder environments--I like grey, cool days. When snorkeling in the Cook Islands, I got a bad sunburn on my back, not realizing the lotion had worn off. I found out later that sun-sensitive people should wear a T-shirt when snorkeling. Seeing giant manta rays swimming near me in turquoise water was a fun thing about it, though.
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Post by aroundtheworld on Nov 2, 2005 1:28:21 GMT -5
I prefer my complexion peachy with hints of cream. LIke most Asiatics, I avoid the sun at any cost and wear long-sleeves to do gardening.
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Post by Yankel on Nov 2, 2005 1:43:40 GMT -5
I prefer my complexion peachy with hints of cream. LIke most Asiatics, I avoid the sun at any cost and wear long-sleeves to do gardening. Huh? "Asiatic" is a very broad term. Are you East Asian?
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Post by Ilmatar on Nov 2, 2005 7:44:35 GMT -5
Anunnaki already hinted to the fact that Swedes usually tan easily, where as Finns don't. It's interesting, since ancestors of the Swedes and the Finns have lived in a climate that's very similar for thousands of years. But the founding population has been small, especially in Finland. Therefore I think that the inability to tan of the Finns is ultimately due to few founding fathers and mothers happened to tan badly more than any natural selection. The same might go with the blondism. It's not that our forefather/mothers went deliberarely after blonder spouses, there just weren't any darker haired ones available.
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Post by aroundtheworld on Nov 2, 2005 11:38:56 GMT -5
I prefer my complexion peachy with hints of cream. LIke most Asiatics, I avoid the sun at any cost and wear long-sleeves to do gardening. Huh? "Asiatic" is a very broad term. Are you East Asian? I am Polynesian mixed and my Poly side is mixed Asian(China/Phil/Malay). Like most, we hate the sun...use zinc oxide makeups and such. I just used "Asiatic" to sum up how most East Indians and Mongloids(esp japanese/Korean) do not prefer to tan.
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Post by Yankel on Nov 2, 2005 13:26:50 GMT -5
Is that true?
Funny. One of my best friends in high school was Indian. He was considerably lighter than both of his parents, so they nicknamed him "white boy". He tanned as much as could to make himself 'less white'.
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Post by Drooperdoo on Nov 3, 2005 11:16:02 GMT -5
This thread is retarded. The whitest Nordic types can tan to be borderline negro. You've seen them: German and Danish fashion models tanned to a deep reddish-brown. In Florida, where I grew up, you'd routinely see construction workers who were of Anglo-Saxon and Irish extraction who, due to constant sun-exposure, became freakishly dark--at times even being burnt to a shade or two darker than some medium-shade black people. So does the ability to tan = non-European admixture? Not at all. Everyone can tan, if they do it right.
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Post by Educate Me on Nov 3, 2005 11:30:00 GMT -5
my father cant tan, he becomes hideous burned pink
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Post by aroundtheworld on Nov 3, 2005 15:52:15 GMT -5
Is that true? Funny. One of my best friends in high school was Indian. He was considerably lighter than both of his parents, so they nicknamed him "white boy". He tanned as much as could to make himself 'less white'. If your friend was a woman he probably wouldn't have done that. He'd have been highly prized as a spouse.
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Post by RUDRA on Nov 19, 2005 17:35:27 GMT -5
Huh? "Asiatic" is a very broad term. Are you East Asian? I am Polynesian mixed and my Poly side is mixed Asian(China/Phil/Malay). Like most, we hate the sun...use zinc oxide makeups and such. I just used "Asiatic" to sum up how most East Indians and Mongloids(esp japanese/Korean) do not prefer to tan. *First of all, why just say indians & east asians, do not prefer to tan. Don't you know that africans and middle-easterns people also hate getting darker, not just Asiatic peoples(Desi and Mongloid). *Second, you should never put indians and east asians in the same catagory. They both are two different peoples, and not the same race or even similar cultural groups. *And Third if you are going by the continent of asia. Then you also should include arabian, turk, israeli, persian, afghani and russians peoples into your "Asiatic term".
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Post by RUDRA on Nov 19, 2005 18:34:54 GMT -5
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Post by RUDRA on Nov 19, 2005 19:42:06 GMT -5
Is that true? Funny. One of my best friends in high school was Indian. He was considerably lighter than both of his parents, so they nicknamed him "white boy". He tanned as much as could to make himself 'less white'. In india if you are too pale(northern European paleness), people will make fun of you(though is harmless majority of the time). If you are an Indian living in a western country, then your Indian friends and family members would make fun of you, callin you white person. Though this is rare most of time, because indians never get pale as the palest europeans. If your friend was a woman he probably wouldn't have done that. He'd have been highly prized as a spouse. In the Toronto high school I went to, the lightest indian there was a girl. All her indian friends would jokingly call her white indian. And trust me man, she hated being called that, hated it with a passion. Also my sister told me that there was a very pale Pakistani girl she knew, who would slightly tan because she felt she was to too white. And her pakistani boyfriend didn't mind that she tanned.
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Post by RUDRA on Nov 19, 2005 19:45:16 GMT -5
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