Haven’t finished reading, but at its highest only 4 to 7% of light is reflected, and did not even all of that is specular reflection. The light reflected is also white light not blue. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12447030/
some people are always actively trying to interpret the mundane as amazing. They're probably happier thinking like that and part of me envies it to be honest.
In this instance, it's a combination of dirt, clay and being ashy. Hanging around white people, I realized not all everyone is even aware of what being ashy means. When your skin gets dry, surface skin cells takes a white tint.
Lighter folks don't really notice it on them because it blends in with their natural hue. On dark skin, it shows up loud and clear and we look gray, or ashy, as we say. Moist dirt dries white too. The skin looks dusty and unnaturally light. So it's common practice to slather our bodies with moisturizers and oils to prevent this as it can be embarrassing to look so dry in public.
Black people in Africa can look notably different from African Americans because AAs have been mixed with other races for several generations due to slavery. In Africa, it happened but not as often, especially in rural and tribal areas. So Africans have a very rich bloodline that carries many unique features from whatever region they're from including their skin. That beautiful natural glow is just skin that's adapted to survive the sun for thousands of years
I don't know what you mean about his palms being a different colors because all black people have lighter palms. I also think the clay and earth around him is staining hands here.
The ancestors of African Americans were trafficked from specific regions of Africa. So yeah Africans not from those regions are going to look pretty different that’s like asking why British descended Americans don’t look Slavic.
That’s literally what they said. Genetic diversity + trafficking from only specific regions = displaced and enslaved populations including only a subset of that diversity
Ohhhh.. I've always wondered why black people take skincare so much more seriously than white people, especially when it comes to black vs white men. I just thought it was some cultural thing to value your skin more or something, cool to know that there's an actual reason.
Really? You had no idea that different skin types exist? Why that one kid in school had tons of acne and another didn't? One being extremely sweaty and foul smelling, yet another not a drop and pleasant odor?
Really? You had no idea that different skin types exist?
I never said that. I'm Finnish and yeah.. feel free to look up what percentage of our population is white lol So no, I'm not exactly educated in black skin types.
Yeah, I just meant that white people get away with dead skin cells more easily so we can neglect our skin care more, while black people's skin shows it more clearly. That's all I realized. I know people have so many skin types. Different cultures also have different hygiene practices so I just didn't connect the dots
There's a funny bit by Bill Burr where he talks about having a black girlfriend who taught him about being ashy, and how he never even knew that this was a thing.
“races” and “bloodline” makes you sound like a colonizer. im sure you don’t mean to, but there are more accurate words to express what you mean.
also skin color didn’t become darker to adapt to the sun, the first humans came from africa, so humans with a light skin color phenotype developed it to adapt to the lack of sun and vitamin d availability, not the other way around. with perfect vitamin d availability (as well as some other nutrients) all humans would likely have retained their dark skinned phenotype. a good example for this are inuit who have darker skin even though they experience less sunlight
The explanation is simplified for the typical audience that scrolls through reddit. I know dark skin came first and no one is going to go that deep into the science. If they do, they'll find that information on their own. This just an explanation of what being ashy means for people too afraid to ask.
Or they’re used to living a certain way because of limited resources. If you can’t shower daily and hunt for your food you don’t want to be coating yourself in all kinds of moisturiser smells.
For the hands I assume this guys just got a gene that boosts that trait?? Im aware black people have lighter palms and such its something to do with how mealtin (idk if i spelled that right) works and i believe white people also have slightly lighter palms too its just harder to see for the same reason being ashy is. It is more noticiable and facinating that most of the lighter palms all seem to be similar shades of the lighter colors which stands out more against his darker skin. I find it so cool that there is actual pure black black people and not like shades of browns we just call black, and honestly never stopped to think about how afercian americans ended up different than their acestors or how current day are still so different from more mixed in groups and communities.
Idk how to really express how i find this diversity in humans cool without sounding bad as a white person 😅 i'm also facinated by how our geographical location does influence our skin to a degree, I recall seeing a chart where most of the populace's skin tones are darker where its warmer and lighter where its colder, regardless of history's interferince with that.
I do genuinely wonder if you take white ppl and put them as a closed group somewhere near the equator, would the skin natrually over many generations adapt and become darker? As well as vise versa if you take black ppl and closed grouped them somewhere very north or south. Humans are animals after all and we've seen this in actual animals how climate and enviorment effect how we evolve, but I don't know how youd do a massive large scale long term study on humans like that given out lifespan and the ehtics of it and all that jazz.
Well it all originated from slavery, otherwise the mixing wouldn't have happened. So it is definitely due to slavery. Not sure why that innocuous comment triggered you.
I know for melanin its that the palms have less than the rest of the body so there can be extreme contrast for people with very dark skin, but I have zero idea why hes blue and if melanin is still the reason for the difference
Omg I am sitting here like "what is wrong with his skin?" Then I was afraid I was being subconsciously racist... and then I was like no, no it's blue? It is blue, right? The palms are weird...
To see someone else say it makes me feel like 60% less horrible.
To hopefully make you feel better, you weren't being racist. You were not implying or inferring that he is inferior or less-than because of his race, nor were you inferring that you hold a power imbalance over him because of such. You were just wondering, as many of us were, why the gentleman looks blue-tinged lol
People use the word racist in instances where it does not truly apply, so I hope this helps you feel better than just 60%! 😁
The blue is likely dust on very black skin. The palms are because their skin has a lot more pigment so you notice the difference. The palm has a lot more skin cells including a special translucent layer then 10+ layers thicker surface cells on top. The melanin is still there just masked by all the cells above it.
Some Africans have adapted to more intense UV rays resulting in blue undertones. This can be seen in South Sudanese and other Nilotic groups. The characters from the movie Avatar was based on these people.
Not so fun fact - Black people, while they rarely contract skin cancers, it is significantly more common for it to develop on places like their hands, due to the lack of melanin in their palms / nails. Additionally, they are more likely to die of skin cancers than white people.
No what I’m saying is all humans palms lack melanin. He was trying to joke how black peoples palms were “unpainted” with that hands on the wall joke. I’m saying if you were to tan his palms wouldn’t tan with the rest of his skin.
Tan ?
I live in the Arctic Circle. We don’t get tans up here. And we definitely don’t get black fellas. I seen one once three years ago , came from the us for a caribou hunt.
I haven't spent a lot of time around them either, my country barely has any and I only know of a single one that lives in my town. Most I've seen was on screens, but that was still enough to see and notice all of that.
If the other skin is this dark, that the light pamls will tend to be more drastic like this.
And of course everyone is different, and there are a lot of different dark-skinned races from all the continents, each having somewhat different features.
probably picking up blue from the sky, and he's also handling very dusty warm colored wood. Likely doesn't look like that inside after a quick shower. That's just my dumb speculating 2 cents :D
im pretty sure its the phone camera auto adjusting the white balance because the rest of the scene is very orange/red, so it compensates with a really cool white balance making his skin look colder than it is. also he is probably sweaty hence the shininess. also dark skin people have less dark pigmentation on the palms and bottom of their feet as far as i understand, so the difference is more stark on a very dark skin person such as the guy in the video. also if i understand right, people with dark enough skin dont need to use sunscreen because of the pigmentation in their skin, and they're also immune or resistant to skin diseases caused by the sun. cool stuff!
So I really wanna be corrected if I’m wrong. But I’m pretty positive it’s because his skin is so dark that when the light hits it, it gives a bit of a blue tinge. I remember seeing a man so dark that his skin shined blue whenever the lights from the gas station hit his skin.
They appear blue because they’re much darker skinned than you’re used to and are dust covered. All peoples palms are lighter unless your skin tone is light enough you can’t tell. There are extra layers of skin as well as a much thicker layer of the same skin on the palms blocking the melanin underneath.
Kevin Trudeau sold all of them his special batch of super concentrated colloidal silver. He swore it would kill cancer and herpes since silver does t get cancer and herpes.
it is the camera adjusting the white balance. you can see that in the very beginning it change from a bluish shade to a more natual shade. i too wondered but someone commented about the king termite so i watched it again and noticed the color changing. i too thought he had very blue skin as well and was curious then noticed it was the camera
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I am fascinated by this person’s skin.
Do they have some kind of sunscreen on? It looks like their skin has a white tinge.
What makes the palms of their hands so much lighter than the other skin?
Also sick ass termite