I’m glad you explained it because Australia’s peaked cranium and ‘there’s way too many teeth in that mouth’ grin were a little disconcerting. Do all Europeans and Africans have such gargantuan overbites? Seems like they would have died off from malnourishment from being unable to properly chew food by now. And apparently, all of earth’s babies and children have the skulls of anime characters. This is one crazy meme, mate. It makes me fear intercontinental travel.
To be fair- both are only part of the picture, each meme is equally flawed in the fact that they are imprecise and without presenting the whole picture. There are certain features more prevalent in different genetic ancestries. You’re going to have a hard time finding many people with 17 generations of Han anceratry that have natural blonde hair for instance. These traits can also effect bone structure, with some structures being more common to certain genetics. However- there is great debate to the accuracy of which a persons “race” can be determined by bones. Not all people of a group have a defined set of characteristics, and not all people have an ancestry of a predominant lineage. Much like finger prints or other evidence used for forensics there is great political pressure behind the issue- regardless of accuracy in certitude, these systems are “the best we have” so to rule them immaculate would not just remove major tools in justice and science, but call into question...
... numerous verdicts past and present, and undermine the entire criminal justice system. It is a big can of wos many MANY in science, politics, and criminal justice do not want to open, and so there are questions about the bias in findings and pressures on those in the field- who would by default be throwing away a career and much of their life to say “well... its 50/50...” or anything except “yes. Without a doubt it’s accurate.” Then there are many who (I would rsay rightfully) say its nonsense regardless of accuracy. Race is a social construct. People who trace deep genetic roots to a certain larger group of people can be differentiated by those ancestries- but not so fine a point to say race- at best one might say “likely what would be considered one of these hand fulls of races...” for instance Japanese people are caucasoids just like most Europeans, and up to even 3,000 years ago had many more traits similar to Europeans. So are all skeletons of all people the same? No....
.... but are all skeletons of all people distinctly different to provide a certain identification of racial classification based only on their bone structure? No. The truth is somewhere in the middle, with some nuances based on what theories and experts one chooses to believe, but unequivocally we cannot scientifically say that all skeletons are the same nor that all skeletons show a difference by “race.”
Not directed at anyone in particular, my point wasn't meant to be "thank god they kindly cleared this up, so sick of all them white skulls being categorized as identical to those LESSER races," rather just that there have been some subtle observed differences in the skeletal structures of people from various parts of the world, as with people of different gender and age.
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It's not a race thing, it's a neuroticism thing on my part, because my brain likes to go "well, technically," to just about everything it sees.
I can certainly understand. There is precision, accuracy, and validity. Something can be all at once, or any combination but not all. It is valid to say that deep down we are all alike, but not precise, and not accurate. It is accurate to say people of different XYZ don’t have identical bones- because some may but all don’t- but imprecise. One can, using accurate fact and precise detail demonstrate a theory that the moon landing was s hoax- but it is not valid. Communication which uses less than all 3 is wide open to interpretation if the receiver does not think the way you do, or has a different communication style. No method is completely sure to be understood, but the less ambiguity, and the more validity, the less other people must fill in on their own, which preserves intent.
Knowing that skulls are usually slightly different among races/ethnicities is one thing, but I think that what the whole meme with the same skulls was originally trying to point out is that some people (*cough* racists *cough*) think that differences in skulls imply differences in intellectual abilities.
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It's not a race thing, it's a neuroticism thing on my part, because my brain likes to go "well, technically," to just about everything it sees.
It's the same pic but Australia is upside down. As it should be.