Black People & White People

[Urban Sports]

This may be a bit of a generalisation so I apologise before hand.

But why do Black people not seem to age as quickly as White people, or to say it in a different way Black people tend to look younger for the same vintage.

Anybody else observed this and is there a genetic reason?

[bonsai]

Black don't crack.

[deeen]

I think black and asian people have less grey hair, and many have better skin, than white people.

Why do you ask?

[Sheets Tabuer]

I'd have thought with the primary reason for dark skin being to mitigate skin damage from UV then yes, they do get less wrinkles.

Don't forget even on the cloudiest days the UV is coming straight through the clouds and beating your face about.

[Pony]

they don't get aged by sunlight as much as white people, is my initial uneducated guess

[BliarOut]

deeen said:

I think black and asian people have less grey hair, and many have better skin, than white people.

Why do you ask?

Proper white haired black people make me laugh... Guinness...

[Halb]

Sidney Poiter seems to have been the same age for decades.
Something to do with the Melanin ?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200712...

[Pony]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Don't forget even on the cloudiest days the UV is coming straight through the clouds and beating your face about.

errrr what?

[Urban Sports]

deeen said:

I think black and asian people have less grey hair, and many have better skin, than white people.

Why do you ask?

Just an observation I have made before but my train of thought was started by Ian Wright on that 5 show.

I then thought of Gazza not a comparison but that was what I was thinking of.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Pony said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

Don't forget even on the cloudiest days the UV is coming straight through the clouds and beating your face about.

errrr what?

Which part are you having difficulty with?

[Pony]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Pony said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

Don't forget even on the cloudiest days the UV is coming straight through the clouds and beating your face about.

errrr what?

Which part are you having difficulty with?

well you don't get tans on overcast days, but google does agree with you so, meh.

[grumbledoak]

More to it than genetics. Blacks don't get so much sun damage, but that doesn't really explain the Orientals. You are also more attuned to the signs of ageing of your 'own' racial group.

[ShadownINja]

Well, they say that you never see baby Chinese people flying around Trafalgar Square but only see fully grown Chinese people. Do baby Chinese people exist? Or was that pigeons?

[Mobile Chicane]

I wish I knew the answer to this one.

I've a West Indian friend who is well into her 60s, but with her Beyoncé flicky wig and green contacts, you'd think, 40? 45 at most.

[e3jcr]

Urban Sports said:

This may be a bit of a generalisation so I apologise before hand.

But why do Black people not seem to age as quickly as White people, or to say it in a different way Black people tend to look younger for the same vintage.

Anybody else observed this and is there a genetic reason?

Bit of a grey area

[Superficial]

As someone else has said, it's due to the amount of Melanin people have. White people have less than Blacks do, that's why it's important to always wear sun protection, even on cloudy days. Look after your skin and you'll age just the same as black people do.

[SystemParanoia]

or near enough

[AJS-]

grumbledoak said:

More to it than genetics. Blacks don't get so much sun damage, but that doesn't really explain the Orientals. You are also more attuned to the signs of ageing of your 'own' racial group.

Definitely this. I used to think the same of Asians, but living in Thailand I've actually learned to notice different things. People here don't tend to sag, pile on weight or go grey the same as we do but the signs are definitely there, and now I can tell ages much more accurately than I could when I first came here.

Disagree about black people though. Remember Desmonds? He looked ancient.

[Famous Graham]

Pony said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

Pony said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

Don't forget even on the cloudiest days the UV is coming straight through the clouds and beating your face about.

errrr what?

Which part are you having difficulty with?

well you don't get tans on overcast days, but google does agree with you so, meh.

Trust me - go bald, and you soon learn to wear a hat in the summer, even when it's overcast.

[Don]

I think it depends on your frame of reference.

I once saw a young (white) lass at a supermarket till call over her superevisor to verify that a chinese gentleman was over the age of 18. He exclaimed - "but I'm 40!"

If you aren't used to seeing as much of people of a different race you don't know how they age with the same level of confidence.

Maybe it's that?