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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 02:58 PM
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Poll question: Poll question: Are white people indigenous to Europe?
:shrug:
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 02:59 PM
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1. dont make me start a 3rd poll: Are people indigenous to Earth?
:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:00 PM
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2. Do it
:popcorn:
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:03 PM
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6. you got it
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7836945

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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:13 PM
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10. I know my brother-in-law isn't. nm
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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:01 PM
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3. What about albinos??

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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:11 PM
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8. You mean the ones in the zoo with the horns sticking out of their noses?
Oh no, that the guy my sister is dating. Never mind.
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 05:05 PM
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15. Human beings without melanin are still human. This is not funny. n/t
Edited on Mon Jun-16-08 05:06 PM by pnwmom
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 08:14 PM
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16. Please please I am not making fun of anyone. Well maybe the kid my daughter is dating.
i have the greatest respect for you and am sorry if my flip post offended.
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 08:55 PM
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23. Well, I am not albino
but I am super pale! So I guess it was natural for me to think about how an albino person might have reacted to the post. Plus I saw an article in the NYT recently, about how some albino people in Africa are actually being killed for their body parts (believed to bring good luck to the holder). It was pretty horrifying.

Thanks for the reply, rhett o rick. We're all prone to these verbal goof-ups sometime. No worries.
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Seeking Serenity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:01 PM
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4. Other.
No one is indigenous to anywhere, or, alternatively, everyone is indigenous to everywhere.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:02 PM
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5. What about swallows?
And cocoanuts? :shrug:
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:11 PM
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9. I am not sure you can say swallow in DU. By the way what are you wearing. nm
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 03:07 PM
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7. Please be more precise. What is the definition of "white people".
I once read a an anthropologist say that when it comes to deciding race divisions, we have two choices. Either everyone is in the same race or each and everyone of us is a separate race. Any other differentiation is arbitrary.
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 05:00 PM
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12. Since the question relates to skin color, "white people" works.
And race in the sense we use it is a fairly-recent sociocultural invention.
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 08:17 PM
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17. I disagree that skin color can be used as a method to determine who is white.
There is an infinite degree of skin colors from black to white. Where do YOU draw the lines?
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 05:01 PM
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13. White people: if you need sunscreen to mow the lawn,
you're white. :P
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 12:42 PM
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41. I know some white ladies that put baby oil on for the sun. I guess they are dark skin
wanabees
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 04:57 PM
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11. A little mutation a few thousand years ago that limits production of melanin.
And it provided a slight advantage in an ice-age northern Europe.
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 05:04 PM
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14. It still provides an advantage in northern latitudes, since it facilitates the
absorption of Vitamin D.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 11:27 PM
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39. Yeah ... I smear it on my skin and it disappears in seconds.
:dunce:
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 12:16 AM
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40. Hardy har har. n/t
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 08:17 PM
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18. Define "white".
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 08:18 PM
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19. Italians weren't considered
to be "white" when they first came to this country. Please define white. :shrug:
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Nikki Stone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 08:38 PM
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20. Excellent point.
We're (mostly) white now, but back when my ancestors came here, we weren't. In fact, when the musical Show Boat opened in 1927, the part of Queenie (an African American character) was played by Tess Gardella, an Italian American. It wasn't until the mid 1930's when Queenie was played by an African American woman, Hattie McDaniel.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 08:42 PM
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21. That's how the word "guinea"
became a slang for an Italian.

Americans thought the Italians were African and came from the Guinea Coast.
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Nikki Stone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 11:09 PM
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32. No kidding!
I had an African American professor at school who was lighter than a lot of my dad's cousins. (He said his friends actually referred to him as "high yellow;" )
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 08:49 PM
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22. The Irish were treated similarly.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 08:58 PM
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24. That is true
but not because of their skin color.
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anigbrowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 09:02 PM
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28. Ha! like the picture. Good catch!
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snailly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 09:07 PM
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31. Irish people aren't white.
We blend well but we are our own separate species. :P
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 11:21 PM
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35. That's right. And we're very erudite.
And we can drink BUNCHES!!
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 09:04 PM
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30. Good point.
My Italian and Hungarian grandparents weren't "white" when they were young, but were as adults.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 11:22 PM
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37. Same goes for Roma, "gypsies", etc...
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 09:00 PM
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25. define "white" first. eom
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anigbrowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 09:00 PM
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26. Duh, obviously. What is the point?
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Carnea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 09:01 PM
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27. Well if your going to use so called skin color better add Japan and Washington State nt.
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snailly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 09:03 PM
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29. Wait a second! I thought White people were underbaked
and Black people were left in God's oven too long. At least that's what my neighbor told me when I was a kid.
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 11:14 PM
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33. Hard to say...
Linguists and anthropologists believe the celtic people came from the region of India. So they were initially NOT white, but they are now?

Who knows?
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 11:15 PM
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34. Is History now done by popular vote?...nt
Sid
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Carnea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 11:23 PM
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38. No Science is....
:banghead:
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 11:22 PM
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36. weren't the Indo-Europeans native to Central Asia/Iran?
I've read that only a few people, like the Basques and Picts, were related to the original Neolithic settlers of Europe. The so-called Europeans migrated later from the regions around Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, etc, moving partly into Europe, and partly into Iran and India.

Ironically, the Berbers of North Africa are probably descended from the original European indigenous inhabitants, and migrated to North Africa later via the Gibraltar isthmus.

Instead of telling whitey to "go back to Europe", maybe it should be "go back to Tajikistan?" Doesn't have the same ring, though.
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