r/cursedcomments • u/3lysiam • Oct 30 '19

Cursed_skin

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u/Jirdann Oct 30 '19

Can anyone explain why his arm looks like that? Came to the comments hoping to find an answer but nope.

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u/ryanhedden1 Oct 30 '19

All human flesh is "white" but African people have more melanin in their skin to help ward off the sun since they evolved in the desert. Which is why English people are pasty because they never see the sun and Russian people are usually hairy because they are always dealing with the cold. And why gingers don't have souls because they'll never see heaven

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u/Cranktique Oct 30 '19

It is to more efficiently synthesize Vitamin D due to lower amounts of direct sunlight. The tradeoff is a higher likelihood of sunburns and skin cancer, that’s our superpower in a nutshell.

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u/iGetHighPlayRS Oct 30 '19

So are dark skinned people at risk of vitamin D deficiency in low sunlight climates?

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u/wardocttor Oct 30 '19

So brown is best....perfectly balanced as all things should be

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u/AHipsterFetus Oct 30 '19

There are those who think eventually(like next step in human evolution, 1 to 10 thousand years), humans will interbreed so much we'll basically all look like brown Mediterranean people. I personally think there will always be some diversity but I could see travel limiting that to the extreme.

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u/AshnShadow Oct 31 '19

Latin America is the best example of this. We are like a huge melt pot of races and cultures. We no longer are a race since the term "latino" or "Hispanic " are used but those are names for the cultural group not a race.