Actually, even people of color should wear sunscreen. While often less prone to sunburn, sunscreen protects against the often, non visible damage from UV radiation that can cause both visual changes to skin as well as cancers. Obviously there are other inaccuracies here, and obviously they are joking, but it’s something I commonly hear amongst friends who fee they do not need to wear sunscreen because of their color. I’m not as diligent about it as I should be, but I will still wear sunscreen if I know I’ll be exposed to sun for long periods, even if I’m at low risk for sunburn.
I remember in 5Th grade the teacher took me (the palest kid) and the darkest kid and explained to the class that even though it's more apparent on me, he should still put on sun screen as darker skin doesn't make him immune.
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Yeah, when I'm out for long times in the hot sun, I can see red spots on my skin.
YES. About two months ago I was working at a museum and we would take groups of children (with their teachers/parents/...) to the cliffs next to the museum because they're full of fossils. Anyway, this stupid fucktard woman started to make fun of a black kid for putting sunscreen on. First I said nothing, in shock, and because the poor kid didn't even seem to notice (I wonder what crap that shitstain had put on him during the beginning of their fieldtrip for him not to react), but then she proceeded to go around in the group, apparently very proud of her "joke", wanting everyone to make fun of him. Even if I'm super shy, I told her to stop her bullshit, the kid was right, everyone needs sunscreen and it's better to have more than not enough, because everyone can get skin cancer. Saying this made me beetle red so she proceeded to make fun of me instead for not even needing sun to be red, and maybe there's "little-girlscreen" for that... I didn't reply.
She got a sunburn.
In general, the highest rates of adult lactose tolerance occur in people with genes from central and Northern Europe, and some parts of Africa and the Middle East. The lowest lactose tollerence is in those with Asian generic ancestry. Most babies can digest lactose, the body just stops producing the enzymes required as we reach adulthood. It’s It’s not clear why a few thousand years ago, in a period that from an evolutionary standpoint was very quickly, the mutation spread to most of the population of these peoples. There’s a question wether milk helped certain humans better survive and pass genes, or wether in these areas the humans already most likely to thrive and pass genes happened to also have the mutation. That mutation still occurs within populations with lower overall adult lactose tolerance. It could take thousands of years to see if this age and those areas give evolutionary preference to carries of the mutation, or if it doesn’t offer them any real evolutionary advantages.
She got a sunburn.