why is it that most Australians, don't have much melanin in their bodies, i have tried to find a full Australian, that has a considerable amount of melanin on their skin!!
and have failed miserably!!
no full Australian, is dark!!!! none have really dark skin (and if you do find one with dark skin, he/ she wasn't born like that, he / she got the dark after birth .
WHY IS THAT?
IS IT THE DIET?
WHAT IS THE CAUSE?
they all have blue eyes, fair skin, blonde hair!!! why?
why?
why?
why hardly any melanin?
you see them all under the sun,if so, then why haven't they gone tan?
a question of up most difficulty!!
why are most (95 %) of Australians have , hardly no melanin in their bodies?
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einstienear Posted on Dec 31 2007, 09:17 AM i have tried to find a full Australian, that has a considerable amount of melanin on their skin!! and have failed miserably!! no full Australian, is dark!!!!
have you considered Indigenous Australians ?
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| einstienear Posted on Dec 31 2007, 09:17 AM i have tried to find a full Australian, that has a considerable amount of melanin on their skin!! and have failed miserably!! no full Australian, is dark!!!! |
have you considered Indigenous Australians ?
they all have blue eyes, fair skin, blonde hair!!! why?
far from it
maybe you need to do some research that involves ditching your stereotypical views
PS 0/10 for science 7/10 for flamebait
QUOTE (einstienear+Dec 30 2007, 03:17 PM)
why is it that most Australians, don't have much melanin in their bodies, i have tried to find a full Australian, that has a considerable amount of melanin on their skin!!
Maybe someone forgot their history.
Australia was a European penal colony. If they are fair skinned, they are EUROPEAN ancestry.
Maybe someone forgot their history.
Australia was a European penal colony. If they are fair skinned, they are EUROPEAN ancestry.
I never found any Martians at the South Pole, either. And folks wonder why they get negged, still.
Edit: THEY, which of you is which? Goodness!
Edit: THEY, which of you is which? Goodness!
So einstienear, it's pretty obvious how much research you have done for your post. Zip, zilch, zero.
95% of Aussies blond and blue eyed? What a load of garbage.
Oh, I see. You did your research by watching Australian soap operas.
95% of Aussies blond and blue eyed? What a load of garbage.
Oh, I see. You did your research by watching Australian soap operas.
QUOTE ("THEY"+Jan 3 2008, 09:47 PM)
Maybe someone forgot their history.
Australia was a European penal colony. If they are fair skinned, they are EUROPEAN ancestry.
MR "THEY", indeed, a person with at least 5 braincells, would have figured out my point,
having known of your non-realizing abilities and lack of brain cells, i will explain it for you!!
my point doesn't regard Australians necessarily, yet the Europeans as well!!
well did their lack of melanin come from?
i may have been wrong by stating that it was the Australians that lacked melanin, but if you were smart enough, you would have realized that the Australian ancestry was Europeans, so my "were is the melanin" theory applies to them too.
clearly, you didn't pay enough attention to my point, in haste of harassing me!!!
i am clear with you!!!
and clean up your room, its a mess (whoops, forgot, your a troll, trolls do that, my apologies!!)
Australia was a European penal colony. If they are fair skinned, they are EUROPEAN ancestry.
MR "THEY", indeed, a person with at least 5 braincells, would have figured out my point,
having known of your non-realizing abilities and lack of brain cells, i will explain it for you!!
my point doesn't regard Australians necessarily, yet the Europeans as well!!
well did their lack of melanin come from?
i may have been wrong by stating that it was the Australians that lacked melanin, but if you were smart enough, you would have realized that the Australian ancestry was Europeans, so my "were is the melanin" theory applies to them too.
clearly, you didn't pay enough attention to my point, in haste of harassing me!!!
i am clear with you!!!
and clean up your room, its a mess (whoops, forgot, your a troll, trolls do that, my apologies!!)
QUOTE (einstienear+Jan 4 2008, 08:16 AM)
well did their lack of melanin come from?
Well, the Europeans lived in the northern hemisphere and needed to absorb light more efficiently than those near the equator. Melanin would have prevented this. Aboriginal Australians would have plenty of melanin.
- Gehn
Here are the stated ethnicities from the Aussie 1996 census:
You won't get 95% blonde and blue eyed from this.
- Australian (37.1%)
- English (31.6%)
- Irish (9.1%)
- Scottish (7.7%)
- Italian (4.3%)
- German (4.1%)
- Chinese (3.4%)
- Greek (1.8%)
- Dutch (1.6%)
- Indian (1.2%)
- Lebanese (0.9%)
- Pole (0.8%)
- Vietnamese (0.8%)
- New Zealander (0.8%)
- Filipino (0.8%)
- Maltese (0.7%)
- Croats (0.6%)
- Welsh (0.5%)
- French (0.5%)
- Serbs (0.45%)
- Spanish (0.4%)
- South African (0.4%)
- Sinhalese (0.4%)
- Macedonian (0.4%)
- Hungarian (0.3%)
- Russian (0.3%)
- Turks (0.3%)
You won't get 95% blonde and blue eyed from this.
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why is it that most Australians, don't have much melanin in their bodies
You may as well ask why is it that most forum posters called 'einstienear' have clouds of violent porridge between their einstien-ears?
Hi All,
As an Australian Born "elf" I would like to report that we are a nation of mainly immigrants and most of us come from somewhere else... But for those that need to know here is a Wikipedia Reference to Indigenous Australians... The figure in this reference by NOM above show "Australians" as 37% but if you want to understand the melting pot a lot of them are of British and Irish heritage (or in some cases Scottish and since WWII the Italian and Greek as well)... Melbourne has the largest concentration of Greeks outside of Greece... good people too. So it is clear that "Australian" is not a word that refers to "Indigenous Peoples of Australia" (those that migrated here during the previous Ice Age about 30 to 50 thousand years ago.
Wikipedia: Indigenous Australians
These "indigenous" people represent only about 2.4% of the total population. As you can see they can look very black but some can also look very white and it all depends on "many factors" which I will not go into here but latitude appears to be one factor. Aborigines do suffer from racial prejudice and there is some friction between "White Australians" and "Black Aborigines". I hope this situation is improving. I can say that during my lifetime a lot of "things" have been attempted to find a place for the Aborigines in the general "European culture" to little effect (with some famous notable exceptions). I do not know what the point of this question is but it seems that there is quite a lot of misunderstanding of who are mostly down here. I can certainly say most of us are not blue eyed blond "giants" of some Nordic extraction mostly called "Bruce".
I doubt very much that Vikings actually ever came "down under" but I suggest there may be some truth to the fact that the Indigenous British and Irish (Britons... Pre-Celtic Tribes) were sacked so many times both in "unfriendly ways" and then in "friendly ways" and that most people from the British Isles would hardly have any "pure blood" in any of them. If it wasn't the Romans it was the French or the Vikings, Celts or the Saxons or a number of others giving the "locals" the "pointy end of the stick" or taking their lands from them. Unlike "indigenous Australians" they do not have any natural rights to any land or property. The current Kings and Queens of Britain are the descendants of "Robber Baron" French Conquerers. Some of us "left in a hurry" (including us "elves") and we brought nothing with us to Australia except the clothes we stood up in. Some were free settling and others started here as convicts under truly brutal British Oppression.
I would also like to make "honorable mention" of the "Kanaks" who were brought here as slaves (euphemistically referred to as "indentured laborers") through "blackbirding" and "used" and then mostly sent "home" to Melanesia when it became "politically incorrect" (see below). Some of them were "Indigenous Aboriginals" and they were not sent to Melanesia but at least later generations of Aboriginals were able to make some land claims which are currently in the courts. That is the only "special treatment" that "Kanaks" ever received other than the possible "beating" was deportation. A few still remain here in Australia and they, like a lot of the rest of us, had originally "nothing" to call their own and needed to work hard without the protection or advantages of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Act to "help" them. I would also like to mention the large numbers of Chinese that have made Australia home and many go way back to the early days when they were under pressure from the Aborigines and they were subjected to pretty "poor" treatment. All these people have made great unsung contributions to this particularly harsh dry country out of proportion to their representation by numbers and paid for in their collective blood.
Wikipedia: Blackbirding
This is not to say that the others have made no contribution... on the contrary... it is impossible to say what they have all done because their stories are too numerous to bring to mind. To all of them we say "sorry" and "thank you"... I include my family in that as well.
I sure hope that sorts out this terrible misunderstanding and provides some perspective. This country today is a much better place for all of them now than it would have been if left to the "ruling classes" of the past. Our Constitution owes a lot to the American Constitution and to the British Constitution... Some good and some bad... We have Social Welfare and Public Medical assistance for the less advantaged and this is one truly humane thing accorded to the people that many would be very thankful for. We are also a predominantly secular nation and I am also very glad of that.
Cheers
As an Australian Born "elf" I would like to report that we are a nation of mainly immigrants and most of us come from somewhere else... But for those that need to know here is a Wikipedia Reference to Indigenous Australians... The figure in this reference by NOM above show "Australians" as 37% but if you want to understand the melting pot a lot of them are of British and Irish heritage (or in some cases Scottish and since WWII the Italian and Greek as well)... Melbourne has the largest concentration of Greeks outside of Greece... good people too. So it is clear that "Australian" is not a word that refers to "Indigenous Peoples of Australia" (those that migrated here during the previous Ice Age about 30 to 50 thousand years ago.
Wikipedia: Indigenous Australians
These "indigenous" people represent only about 2.4% of the total population. As you can see they can look very black but some can also look very white and it all depends on "many factors" which I will not go into here but latitude appears to be one factor. Aborigines do suffer from racial prejudice and there is some friction between "White Australians" and "Black Aborigines". I hope this situation is improving. I can say that during my lifetime a lot of "things" have been attempted to find a place for the Aborigines in the general "European culture" to little effect (with some famous notable exceptions). I do not know what the point of this question is but it seems that there is quite a lot of misunderstanding of who are mostly down here. I can certainly say most of us are not blue eyed blond "giants" of some Nordic extraction mostly called "Bruce".
I doubt very much that Vikings actually ever came "down under" but I suggest there may be some truth to the fact that the Indigenous British and Irish (Britons... Pre-Celtic Tribes) were sacked so many times both in "unfriendly ways" and then in "friendly ways" and that most people from the British Isles would hardly have any "pure blood" in any of them. If it wasn't the Romans it was the French or the Vikings, Celts or the Saxons or a number of others giving the "locals" the "pointy end of the stick" or taking their lands from them. Unlike "indigenous Australians" they do not have any natural rights to any land or property. The current Kings and Queens of Britain are the descendants of "Robber Baron" French Conquerers. Some of us "left in a hurry" (including us "elves") and we brought nothing with us to Australia except the clothes we stood up in. Some were free settling and others started here as convicts under truly brutal British Oppression.
I would also like to make "honorable mention" of the "Kanaks" who were brought here as slaves (euphemistically referred to as "indentured laborers") through "blackbirding" and "used" and then mostly sent "home" to Melanesia when it became "politically incorrect" (see below). Some of them were "Indigenous Aboriginals" and they were not sent to Melanesia but at least later generations of Aboriginals were able to make some land claims which are currently in the courts. That is the only "special treatment" that "Kanaks" ever received other than the possible "beating" was deportation. A few still remain here in Australia and they, like a lot of the rest of us, had originally "nothing" to call their own and needed to work hard without the protection or advantages of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Act to "help" them. I would also like to mention the large numbers of Chinese that have made Australia home and many go way back to the early days when they were under pressure from the Aborigines and they were subjected to pretty "poor" treatment. All these people have made great unsung contributions to this particularly harsh dry country out of proportion to their representation by numbers and paid for in their collective blood.
Wikipedia: Blackbirding
This is not to say that the others have made no contribution... on the contrary... it is impossible to say what they have all done because their stories are too numerous to bring to mind. To all of them we say "sorry" and "thank you"... I include my family in that as well.
I sure hope that sorts out this terrible misunderstanding and provides some perspective. This country today is a much better place for all of them now than it would have been if left to the "ruling classes" of the past. Our Constitution owes a lot to the American Constitution and to the British Constitution... Some good and some bad... We have Social Welfare and Public Medical assistance for the less advantaged and this is one truly humane thing accorded to the people that many would be very thankful for. We are also a predominantly secular nation and I am also very glad of that.
Cheers
QUOTE (Good Elf+Jan 7 2008, 11:34 PM)
The figure in this reference by NOM above show "Australians" as 37% but if you want to understand the melting pot a lot of them are of British and Irish heritage (or in some cases Scottish and since WWII the Italian and Greek as well)...
Yeah, it wasn't the best reference. But at least my 30 seconds of research was substantially more than tie idiot einstienear's.
My point is that nearly none of the Greeks, Italians, Asians and Middle Eastern immigrants fit within the blond, blue eyed Australian stated by instienear. Nearly 50% were Brittish descent, few of them are blond and blue eyed.
As per usual, the forum's crank element - typified by instienear, just make up some random gibberish they know nothing at all about.
Yeah, it wasn't the best reference. But at least my 30 seconds of research was substantially more than tie idiot einstienear's.
My point is that nearly none of the Greeks, Italians, Asians and Middle Eastern immigrants fit within the blond, blue eyed Australian stated by instienear. Nearly 50% were Brittish descent, few of them are blond and blue eyed.
As per usual, the forum's crank element - typified by instienear, just make up some random gibberish they know nothing at all about.
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