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    Default Re: Israel's Plan for its Arab citizens

    Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
    That's not exactly true, is it?

    As the most obvious example, people in South Africa are much darker than people in Europe - there's no cross over between a Swede and a Zulu in terms of colouration, is there?

    So, clearly, there's less variation between Zulus than there is between the Zulu and Swedish groups.

    Whether these differences are more than superficial is another question.
    You need to reframe your mind a little. I will put it this way.

    Imagine a room full of people, you will end up with average size, colour, height, and all those factors. Now have one between your Zulu group and your Swedish group.

    So now you got two groups of averages, there would be some variation (there always is, no matter grouping), but you would be looking at similar results, they would be around similar height, etc.

    Now within those two groups, look at the extremes. So you have that thin tall lanky one who is really pale as he likes reading books, then on the otherside, you got the short fat, darker skinned one, who has genetical thyroid issues.

    Now thing of these two extremes and the two averages. Which would be the most similar and which would be the most different?

    You could argue some 'socio-genetical' factors (I might have invented that term), which people of certain areas tend to share some characteristic, this would be like how your family might have bigger noses than mine, but my family might be predispositioned to baldness, but this doesn't make us 'different races', as the variation is not significant enough compared to examples brought up such as 'dog breeds'. Pigment is basically "we are 'less brown' than those people over there who are 'more brown'" the categorisation is a little silly and completely out of date.
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