Faded Paint Argument... ...Egypt

[alexandrian]

CrimsonGuard said:

Theirs dozens of these Egyptians topics,with guys blurting really moronic comments about them and their origins.... its just come to point of mass insanity.

My sentiments exactly

[MC anunnaki]

Mike said:

Now that's not something I would be doing if a bull was attacking me.

[amksa]

anunnaki said:

Now that's not something I would be doing if a bull was attacking me.

Judging from what i see, i mean the... hum... ostentatious enthusiasm of the bull, i think that the artist caught in the act an another form of bestial assault... sorry for my clumsy explanations, but i can't translate the french word "zoophilie" into english.

[CooCooCachoo]

Someone's comments got edited out. ...I'm not a big fan of that. ...I rarely get offended by little dots of light making letters on a screen.

Moving on...

In answer to whether I would consider the Minoans "caucasoid", I would have to say, largely no. The pictures with the lighter skin stand out.

Does that mean I "key in" to lighter skin as a necessary caucasoidal feature, while others focus on facial bone structure? ...Perhaps. But how much cranial shape can you determine from the minoan, or egyptian drawings which make little effort to depict accurate shape. They look like the drawing of a 7 year old. (Especially one that's been molested. Don't know what's up with that Bull Charging pic.)

...In the more accurate/detailed work, of Tutankhamun's death mask, one can make a more honest appraisal. While true, Tut shows a perched nose, he also shows full lips, unlike most caucasions. His face is too flat and wide to be caucasion. His eyes resemble having an epicanthic fold, almost mongoloid. ...Not very caucasion, outside of the nose.

Similarly If you look at the Sphinx by the Great Pyramid, even assuming it's missing nose had been pronounced enough to be caucasian, his face is just too wide. The Cephalic index isn't remotely in line for what people consider Caucasian.




So hey!!! The Egyptians were a GREAT and THRIVING civilization!! And they weren't caucasian. And if you NEED to think Egyptians were caucasian, BECAUSE they were great, you might as well consider Michael Jordan caucasian every time he dunks a basketball.

[mike2]

I think we all stopped reading once when you said the Minoans weren't Caucasian.

[IfTheLightTakesUs]

Mike said:

I think we all stopped reading once when you said the Minoans weren't Caucasian.

Hahaha, so true.

[alexandrian]

Mike said:

I think we all stopped reading once when you said the Minoans weren't Caucasian.

Exactly....CooCooCachoo, you're an idiot. The Egyptians weren't black and they weren't Asian. Though, come to think of it, there's probably a better chance the AEs were Filipinos than black West Africans.

[CooCooCachoo]

Mike said:

I think we all stopped reading once when you said the Minoans weren't Caucasian.

...Well I hope you at least looked at the pictures.

[mike2]

CooCooCachoo said:

...Well I hope you at least looked at the pictures.

Oh yeah. The Sphinx pictures are pretty.

[CooCooCachoo]

Alexandrian said:

Exactly....CooCooCachoo, you're an idiot. The Egyptians weren't black and they weren't Asian. Though, come to think of it, there's probably a better chance the AEs were Filipinos than black West Africans.

...Just drilling the point home that you'd have to have a pretty broad definition of Caucasion to classify AE's as that.

Egyptions ~ No
Minoans ~ Perhaps a multi-ethnic, commerce based society with some whites. Still looking over the pictures Mike posted.
Greeks ~ First firmly Caucasion civilization, (in the racist rumblings of my mind)

Assyrians, Babylonians, Mesopotamians, Hitites, etc... I don't know enough about.

[mike2]

There is no disputing that the Minoans were Caucasian, CooCooCachoo. To say that they were multiethnic is ridiculous. They were Mediterranean Caucasoids (of the gracile Aegean variety, I believe) and their descendants still live on Crete today. You cannot equate the modern day Europeans-only-club definition Caucasian of stupid rednecks to all Caucasoids. They are a much more complicated race than that.

[joton]

i think the sphinx is an idealized image of the king which repersents their god.

[mike2]

I don't think the sphinx looks Caucasian, but he doesn't strike me as representative of any nearby Negro races in Egypt, either. The sphinx is just the sphinx to me. A monster.

[CooCooCachoo]

Mike said:

There is no disputing that the Minoans were Caucasian, CooCooCachoo. To say that they were multiethnic is ridiculous. They were Mediterranean Caucasoids (of the gracile Aegean variety, I believe) and their descendants still live on Crete today. You cannot equate the modern day Europeans-only-club definition Caucasian of stupid rednecks to all Caucasoids. They are a much more complicated race than that.

Hey, call Michael Jordan Caucasian. I don't care. Make the definition as broad as you want. ...But can I get my Whites only drinking fountains back?

[alexandrian]

CooCooCachoo said:

...Just drilling the point home that you'd have to have a pretty broad definition of Caucasion to classify AE's as that.

Egyptions ~ No
Minoans ~ Perhaps a multi-ethnic, commerce based society with some whites. Still looking over the pictures Mike posted.
Greeks ~ First firmly Caucasion civilization, (in the racist rumblings of my mind)

Assyrians, Babylonians, Mesopotamians, Hitites, etc... I don't know enough about.

What the hell is your clearly unscientific view of the defintion of the Caucasian race? You are so ignorant its unbelieavable. Caucasians can have skin from pale white to dark brown, lips thin to moderately full, hair straight to wavy to Med curly, and noses that are narrow. The Egyptians were well within the above descriptions. The modern day def of a Caucasian is, and I quote: "A descendant of one of the original inhabitants of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa"

Courtesy of your very own Census Bureau.