How do we tell and know who is of Black African Descent when many Dravidians of India

[tradeunionsupporter]

How do we tell and know who is of Black African Descent when many Dravidians of India and Sri Lanka, the Negritoes of the Philippines and Indonesia, the Melanesians of Polynesia and New Guinea, and the Aborigines of Australia have black skin ? Would ancestry genetic testing be able to tell ?

[this is an invasion]

Why does it matter?

[The Red Next Door]

Would the fact that Humans was born in Africa then they scatter across the global help? Also Many Africans travel the slik road, trading and stuff in ancient times.
There some genetics tests that helps people figure out where they come from too.

[Blackscare]

It's pretty irrelevant, but I think the easiest answer would be to just ask them. Most people have an idea of at least what continent their ancestry traces to.

[RGacky3]

The OP is obsessed with race and racial heratige issues, let it go.

[Mahatma Gandhi]

How do we tell and know who is of Black African Descent when many Dravidians of India and Sri Lanka, the Negritoes of the Philippines and Indonesia, the Melanesians of Polynesia and New Guinea, and the Aborigines of Australia have black skin ? Would ancestry genetic testing be able to tell?

Except for people who are unmistakably white, everybody else is Black. Whether they're 'this or that descent' makes little difference. Dividing them further into brown, yellow or navy blue is silly. Just two colors are enough - if one isn't white, then one is black, period. At least, it simplifies things a great deal and brings the oppressed classes together.

[Bud Struggle]

Just two colors are enough - if one isn't white, then one is black, period. At least, it simplifies things a great deal and brings the oppressed classes together.

Being black and being oppressed aren't synonymous.

[revolution inaction]

Except for people who are unmistakably white, everybody else is Black. Whether they're 'this or that descent' makes little difference. Dividing them further into brown, yellow or navy blue is silly. Just two colors are enough - if one isn't white, then one is black, period. At least, it simplifies things a great deal and brings the oppressed classes together.

your an idiot

[RGacky3]

Except for people who are unmistakably white, everybody else is Black. Whether they're 'this or that descent' makes little difference. Dividing them further into brown, yellow or navy blue is silly. Just two colors are enough - if one isn't white, then one is black, period. At least, it simplifies things a great deal and brings the oppressed classes together.

So I guess Asians are black, as are afghanis, as are El Salvadorians.

Yeah, your an idiot.

[syndicat]

the entire human species originated from a human population in central Africa of about 200,000 people about 150,000 years ago. study of DNA has been used to trace the dispersion of the human population. the population of southeast and east Asia are the farthest, in genetic terms, from the original African source population...farther than Europeans. the indigenous population of Australia are related to Melanesians and Malays and the Pacific Islanders.

Skin color is a relatively trivial characteristic, in biological terms. It is an adaptation to the level of ultraviolet light in a particular region. Australia has a very high level of UV. Hence the darker complexions of the original inhabitants. because the ancestors of the white population are from the British isles, which has low UV, Australia has the highest rate of skin cancer of any country.

geneticists have been able to isolate the "white" gene. this apparently originated as a mutation about 30,000 years ago, based on its location in the human genome. This is after the ancestors of Europeans began migrating north, which anthropologists estimate at 40,000 to 50,000 years ago. thus it would seem that the ancestors of Europeans originally were darker complected.

darker versus lighter skin color isn't just a color variation but has to do with the chemical composition of the skin. altho darker skin has UV protection it makes it harder to get enough vitamin D. so either white or black coloration can be adaptive depending on circumstances...where we understand "adaptive" as the condition humans faced in hunter/gatherer bands without, e.g., modern treatments for skin cancer. for example, African-Americans have 20 times less rate of skin cancer from UV than white Americans.

[scarletghoul]

Africans look differant to Dravidians and Melanesians and so on. Skin colour is not the only characteristic of the African peoples (and of course its not even consistant across africa). Its pretty easy to tell the differance between an Australian aborigine and a subsaharan African

And no, of course, it doesn't matter at all. But imo the differant genetic traits of peoples around the world is pretty interesting.

[Hit The North]

The OP seems to be pretty trollish and the question has no merit.

For that reason... Closed.