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[QUOTE]Originally posted by zarahan aka Enrique Cardova: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by BrandonP: [qb] Personally, I feel that "equatorial African" would be more accurate for the suite of facial features and other physical traits that our French troll is intent on equating with "black". But then, I am pretty sure his opponent DJ does not maintain that ancient Egyptians or other ancient North Africans necessarily all had that equatorial phenotype. From what I have seen, DJ at least has been pretty consistent in using "black" and "white" to describe skin tones regardless of what ethnicity the people he's describing belong to. So, by insisting that AE etc. didn't look equatorial, our troll is either attacking a strawman or doesn't understand what his opposition actually believes.[/qb][/QUOTE]Indeed. I think the term "equatorial" is not a bad one, but it seems too narrow. A better definition I think is "tropical African" - which incorporates a much broader geographic range, and ties into a clear data point- the tropical limb proportions- that characterize so much of AE and "sub-Saharan" Africa. It also includes a huge amount of micro-climates, from cool/cold cloud forest or mountain slope, to deserts, to stereotypical "jungle" or savannah which in part explains the diversity of the features of Africans, who, sad as it is to have to say in 2022, (some folk still haven't got the memo) "don't all look alike." [IMG]https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VpVXbniG8WU/VmOyZNqC_NI/AAAAAAAACCM/R3Y0_roUVFk/s1600/tropicalroundup2big.jpg[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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