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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mystery Solver: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by rasol: This not only explains why Black is historically a [b]common ethnic term[/b], it also explains why tropical - in my opinion- will never be.[/QUOTE]The rationale often proferred here, as noted in the parent thread, is the use of 'Black African' as a supposed reference to skin color, which in essence, is attempting to say that this term is being used towards biological ends, not 'racial' [aka "ethnic reference"]. It is in this context, that 'tropical African' was proferred. Tropical African is even more biologically correct than 'black African' will ever be. [QUOTE]rasol: Tropical is also not necessarily and accurate reference to entire morphologies biologically either. For example - it isn't clear why South African Khosian would be regarded as tropicaL. They don't live in the tropics, and their skeletal limb ratios - which are the primary basis for the anthropological label -tropical-, are -non tropical-. Whether their skin color is deemed tropical is also questionable as a 'scientific' matter.[/QUOTE]What is so unique about the Khoisan's [i]body plan[/i]? Tropical Africans don't have one set of 'body plan', granted that certain body plans, like the so-called 'elongated' type, are frequently found here than elsewhere. [QUOTE]rasol: They are however Black Africans, which is a superfical and political ethnic label, just *like all other* ethnic labels. [/QUOTE]Well, why are they then called 'Black Africans', if it is not ultimately because of their recent ancestry from tropical Africa, and that their dark skin hue is a throwback to ancestry in that region? Much of ancient Egypt lay outside of the tropics, just as the modern nation does today. Should we then say that they weren't akin to tropical Africans, because they moved from the tropics and settled in the supra-tropical environment? What about those "black peoples" who no longer live in the tropics, like say Blacks of the Americas; does their general morphology cease being subsumed by the Tropical African continuum? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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