How come people with darker skin seem to be able weight more without looking as big as fair skinned people?
601084
Ithink thats a matter of opinion not an actual fact.
842958
I know it's a cultural thing, but you'd better embrace your dark skin, there's so many people who try to get your color.  I suppose that if you remain in cooler climates your skin will lighten up on its own.  Mine does without me trying.
695128
skin color will depands on who's genes is stronger..if the chinese ones, i say the baby quite fair..not as fair as 100% chienese but close like 85%..
1030615
NO it's all about muscle mass rather than fat. Muscle weighs more so you have better strength. You may have a high body fat percentage but are really slim. They may appear over weight but have a lower percentage of body fat and greater muscle mass. Also, most women have carried kids so they are stronger in the arms than what men would expect.
1058415
It's no harder for them to gain weight than any one else.  Historically, asians have been slender because of their diet.  Today, many more asians have a weight problem.  It pretty much started with the introduction of western food.
637988
You're talking two different things.  When we call people black, we're really referring to their ethnicity, not their skin color.  Black people are of African descent so they would be referred to as black no matter how dark or light their skin is.\nI have seen an albino black person and you can definately tell that person is of African descent even though they have no skin pigment.\nSo, yes, a black person can be classified as an albino if they don't have the melatonin necessary to make skin pigment.  \nWhat I don't understand about albinos is that even their hair and eye color are affected.  I'm not sure if melatonin is responsible for that as well. \nThe black albino I knew had blondish yellow hair.
221431
the Eskimo belong to the Mongoloid Arctic race. They are characterized by low stature, a stocky build, a relatively dark skin, a high cranium, stiff dark hair and a characteristic eye fold. The nose and the face with its high cheekbones are relatively narrow. There is very little hair growing on the face. Colour-blindness is almost unknown. \nEskimos have darker skin than would be expected if the vitamin D theory of lighter skin is the only explanation. I suggest the Eskimos may be an example of a "position-locked" group that produces more testosterone. The increased\ntestosterone in this group may be why they have darker skin than would be expected.
979458
Maybe their not intimidated by your skin color, but because of your beauty.
843407
I see what you're saying.  I've thought the same thing.  If you have light skin, you'll stay cooler in the hot climate than if you had darker skin, so why would you want to get your skin darker if you'd only feel hotter the darker you got?  Right? \n\nTherefore if evolution were really working like it should, people who live up in colder climates like Norway and Sweden would have dark skin to absorb the most of the sun's rays and stay warmer and the people down in Africa would have lighter skin to repel most of sun's rays to keep them cooler.\n\nSeems like that would make sense to me.
1159563
b/c they think that they are prettier and fit in with society, (WHITE society). but in the long run lighter girls are the ones with the most problems and more insecure about life.
297764
I want to commend you on the way you ask what could considered a racsit question. "Dark-skinned folks" are up set because there are still some prople in 2006   believe that "lighter-skinned folks"  treat them as  slaves or as if they are second class citizens which is far from the truth. A lot of "dark-skinned folks help build this country as well as "lighter-skinned folks". And as for the being lazy and needing to go to work. Most "dark-skinned folks do work and work hard for all they have. SO YOU GET OVER IT.
209169
Its all just genetics, the more dominant genes define what colour shape and size of everything about you is.
665387
white people have less melanin in their skin to protect them from harmful UV rays so white people are more susceptible to sunburns which in turn wrinkles the skin faster, and white people have less collagen in their skin which allows for more elasticity of a persons skin.
474523
There are some great maps out there correlating skin tone with a modeled optimum at each geographic point.  That optimum is based on balancing the need to avoid burning and skin cancer against the need to obtain UV light for creation of vitamin D.  \n\nOther adaptations relate to features of the environment.  Northern Europeans, Inuit, and Eskimo people have a distribution of fat on their bodies that is optimized for heat retention.  The body shape of a Masai, for example, would be less than optimal near the North Pole.\n\nThere is a hypothesis that many traits are associated with sexual selection or may pertain to the tradeoff between sexual selection and aspects of the environment.  The distribution of fat tissue, particularly in women, in different races has been proposed as correlated with cultural differences in male preference as well as with adaptaion to the local environment.\n\nFinally, there is the feature of accident.  The epicanthal fold of many East Asians might have been beneficial to many Caucasians, but perhaps by chance the feature simply wasn't present in founding populations in Europe.  Characteristics in founding population and gained or lost by chance certainly play a big role in differences in humans from different geographic areas.  Not everythig is adaptive.\n\nBear in mind that this is not based on fixed differences among populations or races of humans, but instead on gene frequency in different populations.  For example, Swedes are lighter in skin color than the Ndebele not because each population has distinct genes, but because those genes differ in frequency.  Among all the loci that contribute to skin color, Swedish populations have very few alleles that code for dark skin.  Each individual Swede will therefore have only a few dark loci where dark alleles are present whereas most loci will have light alleles.  The Ndebele populations and individuals would act in reverse.
402040
My guess of why darker people prefer hot climates and light people prefer cooler climates has to do with evolution and genetics.  Pigments have evolved according to exposure to the sun - the lesser intense sun,  the lighter the pigment.  The more exposure to sun and heat,  the darker the pigment.  Darker pigments tolerate more heat and exposure.  A light-skinned person would fry much sooner in a desert than a dark-skinned person.  (Although dark skin DOES burn).  I've studied very little biology and anthropology,  so,  don't know for sure.   Humans will evolve to being all about the same color in a few million years, anyway.  Don't worry about it.
48388
Why would you want to lighten your color? Has someone made you feel inferior because your skin is dark? The fact is, the darker the skin, the less chance of skin cancer. You can stay out in the sun without worry. God made each one of us exactly how He wanted us. Since he is all wise and all knowing, there's a good reason you are dark skinned. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it's only skin deep.
824995
well at a "glance" it seems to be black women has deeper navels, because we tend to have more meat.  But I guess a "meaty" white woman could have the same thing.