Why are white people called white when their skin color is closer to pink and why are black people called black when their skin tone is brown?
This is literally like a question you ask your Dad when you're four years old.
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>>1271638
Quite a lot of Africans actually are black/blue though.
>>1271738
Oh, and you do see "white" people that are quite literally white, rarely seen on men though barring illness.
>>1271638
>blacks are brown
Nope. Originally Africans were really BLACK. As in REAL BLACK. This is probably because they were in the sun most of their lives. The new BROWNS are those who wear clothes and those who are products of interbeeding programs.
The SEA are brown. The mexicans are brown. The arabs are brown.
Africans are BLACK.
>>1271738
>blue
u wot
>>1271638
I'm frankly more interested in where fucking East Asians being YELLOW came from.
Looking at them, the Northerners seem to be pale while down south, they're very lightly brown
>>1271781
Its most likely due to the fact that Asians self-identify their (Sinic-influenced) civilization with the color: yellow.
Which, in turn, is based on the 5 cardinal directions and their associated colors in Chinese geomancy/mysticism. Yellow being the color of the middle.
>>1271781
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_Blumenbach
He's the guy that coined the theory of five colors. The whites(europeans), the blacks(africans), the yellows(east asians/central asians), the browns(SEA/pacific islanders), the reds (american indians).
Its considered racists now, but in his time, he was a LIBERAL that believed every race were equal. He was against scientific racism, however his research was used against him by those who took scientific racism to heights. kek
>>1271638
>why are black people called black when their skin tone is brown?
I don't understand the question?
Black people have black skins.
>>1271799
Where are Middle Easterners, Central Asians, and Hispanics placed?
>>1271638
Nigger does this looks pink to you?
>>1271768
Yeah, people who have REALLY dark skin kind of start looking dark blue, kinda like blueberries.
>>1271809
Most don't look like that. Many have slight tans or are just pink. Pic related isn't something you can find.
>>1271809
Faintly, yes, with some similarly pale blues and a very light beige.
No white, whatsoever.
>>1271638
White people are called White because White people chose to call themselves white. Black, brown, yellow and red people are those colors because White people chose to call them such.
>>1271827
Whites confirmed for color-blind.
Anyone else just called other people by names, not colors.
>>1271831
Didn't the Chinese called whites "whites" too?
White=Light
Black=Dark
White people are light skined
Black people are dark skinned
You absolute fucking morons.
>>1271838
This just in: Asians are white due to their light skin.
>>1271833
Guizi? No, that just means "foreign ghost/demon/ghoul/goblin/unpleasant person or entity." Applies to disliked foreigners. It's also an insult.
Whites have bee interchangeably called the following:
>Hongmao.
Lit. "Redheads." In use.
>Folangji
From the Arabic, "Ferenggi." Meaning "Franks." Archaic.
Not to mention who or what was white to the Chinese changed over time. In the ancient days, to them the likes of Iranics, Arabs, and Europeans were all """""white."""" Now only Western Europeans are.
>>1271768
its kinda funny attually,
In irish gaelic black people are called fear gorm,
With translates in to Blue man,
i think it has to do with in irish black man means devil
>>1271807
I'd say between the colours,
so Middle Easterners are located between blacks and whites so their grey,
Hispanics are between white and brown so their light brown
>>1271865
Actually a lot of people just consider Arabs as white tbqh
>>1271866
Arabs as in ethnicity or Arabs as in culturally (i.e Arab countries)
Because ethnic Arabs are not white. Many people in Levant and NA are white tho.
>>1271901
In Arab nations the average Arab describes themselves as white.
Learn context.
>>1271809
your skin looks like cured pig skin(which is tasty).
And yes, i know i sounded creepy and/or a cannibal.
>>1271762
The first humans were either the Khoisan race or people related to them, and they aren't as dark as you might think.
>>1271817
Why are the darkest people either from or near Sudan?
>>1272193
The beauty of Khoisan's must be preserved, bantus go home to Congo!
>>1271865
>our contact with arabs was smaller
They literally border us.
>>1272196
Thats where the human race began and where hominids began losing their coat of body hair, revealing black skin which you would find if you shaved a modern chimpanzee, no racism intended
>>1272521
What species of chimp? Because the common chimpanzee is fairskinned, while the bonoboo is darkskinned. Gorillas are blue-black, and orangutans are tannish when shaven.
