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potato_hamster on 08 March 2018
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Pemalite said:
potato_hamster said:

 I made two claims.

- You cannot tell someone's country of origin from a single picture. You have not come close to contradicting this claim.

- You claim that skin tone can be used to determine the "region" some was from made a decision to define "indigenous people" using arbitrary assumptions. This is obvious since "indigenous" means "originated from an area", and we all know that humans as a species originated in Africa and migrated out afterwards. It should go without saying, but you can't both migrate to an area and be indigenous to it.


Those quotes you cherry picked are referring two different claims.

I have only made a single claim.
You have both agreed that it does contradict my source and that it doesn't.

So which is it? I just want an honest reply from you so I can finally leave this thread, so please stop tip-toeing around the point.

Bolding, Italicizing and underlining something doesn't make it more true.

You could have avoided this, but since you're practically begging for it, here goes.


You have clearly made multiple claims. A few are:

1) You can predict the geographic area someone is from based on a single photo. (You obviously can't using your "citation" but I'll get there)

2) Your picture from an article regarding predicting the hypothetical skin tone people should have in 2007 based on UV index, skin reflectance of "indigenous people", and Vitamin D3 synthesis amongst others, supports this claim. (Yeah, I did read the citation days ago. It's pretty clear you didn't because you completely misrepresented it right from the start, and had the audacity to insult the intelligence of anyone who dared question you)

3) The criteria for determining "indigenous people" in the article is not arbitrary (It is defined in your citation as" those which had existed in their current locations for a long time prior to European colonization." Sounds pretty arbitrary to me, especially considering they use it to predict the skin tone of what people from Europe should be.)

I think that's enough.

Here's my citation. Here's an older version of your citation that's freely available, since the current version is locked behind a paywall.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/011d/4ccb74f32f597df54ac8037a7903bd95038b.pdf

If you are unaware of what a citation is... I am more than happy to educate you on the matter.

Now go tell an Innu and an "Indigenous" Irish person they have the same skin tone with a straight face. K. Thanks. Bye.