Can white people become black and vice versa?

White people are scared of almost everything? Where the hell did you get that?

The question of race has been answered for good and for all by the publication of the data from the Human Genome Project. Appearance is dictated by very small amounts of polygenic DNA, and is completely trivial.

If Vitamin D had been equally available all over the planet all during evolution, then, among other things, skin color variance would most likely be much less noticeable.

Many people, both white and black seem to be “scared” that the concept of race is just a social and cultural contruct with no empirical basis, not even a little, tee-tiny bit to account for noses and basketball skills.

Your premises are flawed so the resulting hypothesis cannot possibly be valid.

I know someone who’s half finnish (he’s Caucasian) and he’s yellow skinned.

Finnish…., that reminds me.
My girlfriend asked a couple, who were eating in her restaurant, if they were finished.
The couple replied: no, we’re Danish.

Ahahahahaha! gives lurve

Michael Jackson. ‘Nuff said.

face palm

This is the funniest quetion / thread ever! I’m white and I don’t think I’m pretty risk-taking but the point about scared white in the question is hilarious.

@samanthabarnum That was my first thought too!

http://is.gd/28985

That will blow your mind. At least it did mine.

look at Mikel Jackson he was black and turned white. Its probably easier to change dark skin to light skin but i am no expert in this field haha.

Wow.

What do you mean “blink in pink”?

I had the same question.

And

“Black people tend to have bigger and wider noses.
White people tend to be scared of almost everything.
Yellow people tend to blink in pink.”

and you say this is NOT a racist question???

@Quagmire I can’t help but wondering exactly what this asker would classify as a racist question.

This is a racist of the worse kind – he doesn’t realize it. Oh well.

O_o

Hmmm.. something wrong….

You see, people arent a certain skin color based on temperature… skin color is based off of the amount of melanin in skin which is then based off of the amount of vitamin D and uv rays in the region.. not temperature. So thus, regardless of the temperature on earth, skin color wont be a problem for a person.

Higher latitudes on earth receive lower vitamin d and uv rays, and thus, the skin of these people are much lighter to allow them to absorb the vitamin d so as to not be in vitamin d deficiency. Lower latitudes, like those closer to the equater have high vitamin d and UV rays, and thus, those people have developed darker skin tones so they dont take in too much vitamin d and uv rays which can be harmful to them.

Get it? So your premise is quite flawed, as temperature will not affect a person based on skin tone (a darker person will be ok in colder temperatures, but will be in vitamin d deficiency if they dont enough sun :P

ALSO, a person with white skin MAY be able to try and become darker if they stay out in the sun for long periods of time, like for example, they moved to Africa, BUT, they will NEVER go black. EVER. Skin color is a genetic trait and can not be changed…. unless you do something terrible to your body, like Michael Jackson did, and apparently, that stuff does NOT do wonders to ones brain ):BUT, I bet if there was a way in which we can figure out how to increase the amount of melanin in a person skin, then a whitey can go black, but so far, ive never heard of it…

BTW, your ideas on white, black, and yellow people are completely wrong ): Ive seen white and Asian people with large noses, ive seen black people who are complete wusses and some white people who are brave. And its strange about the yellow people blinking too much to pink, especially the Japanese, since their culture has an obsession with cute and pink colors…..

As a white man I must admit that I am scared to even answer this question because I am afraid of what my darker skinned friends might think of me. <sarcasm>

@The_Compassionate_Heretic hit it right on the head in regards to your question.

No lurve for you!! Seinfeld reference, paraphrased

I usually go to Mexico to become blacker..maybe if I spent more time there…

Generic engineering might to the job, but we haven’t mastered the technology yet. Only a few genes are related to skin color. A virus could be used as a vector. However, I would not favor to use the technology in this way. Curing cancer is a different story of course.