Question for Antonio

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Jan 24, 2023 4:27:03 GMT Bolushi said:

Jan 24, 2023 4:01:27 GMT @hammerhead said:

People tend to think the Midwest is pancake flat. It's not, there are rolling hills.

80% of the area is completely flat and covered in farmland or just flatland. Tennessee (and maybe Georgia) are the kings of rolling hills.

Those are bordering on Southeast (especially Georgia).

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Can Africans tell what country each other are from like East Asians can?

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Africa has quite a few different "races" which are genuinely more distant from one another than any races outside of africa are, even say "white vs asian", let alone the distance/difference between "Japanese" and "Korean" (for example).

Some Africans (and maybe some anthropologists as well) would probably claim to be able to tell what specific country certain africans came from or even what region of certain countries, and they may even be correct and able to do this, but on a bigger and more undeniably real scale you can divide Africans into about 5 distinctive branches of people, each of which have populations in multiple countries and some countries harbour multiple branches.

You have what they call "Afro-Asiatic" which refers to North Africans and specifically those who migrated into North African during the Neolithic from Asia. Those are the Semitic, Cushitic, Chadic, The Berbers and the extinct Ancient Egyptians. These are all realistically not actually Africans, but "invasive" people from the middle east. They range from light skinned (even quite white) with very caucasian appearance, to quite dark skinned and somewhat black looking, but they aren't proper black people. The same a very dark skinned guy from Sri Lanka or Bangladesh isn't a proper black guy no matter how dark is skin is. This is also true for these Afro-Asiatic branches of African.

Never the less they need to be included as "Africans", and yes people can distinguish between them. Not necessarily by country (though again, some could), but rather the Berber vs Semitic vs Cushitic etc etc distinction.

Then you start getting into the "real" africans, sub-saharan (though also saharan) people, what people used to call "negroes". There are many distinctively different branches of them as well. More, in fact, than there are distinctive branches of Asian or European.

But the main basal groupings are-
Nilo-saharans aka nilotics - tall long very very dark people like those found in south sudan and senegal, also the nubians of ancient egypt. Often herdsmen.
"Capoid" like the Khoi-San, ancient hunter gatherers of the southern deserts
"Pygmies" who they now call "central african hunter gatherers", very small people who live in the jungle of the congo as primitive hunter gatherers
Bantu - kind of "the dominant race" of Africa who spread about much of the continent and probably who most of us think of when we think of africans- includes the Zulus, the Swahilis, the igbo, the yoruba, the Xhosa, etc etc - also includes basically all the african americans and carribean people. They are warriors to some extent some learned to be herdsmen as well and even started forging iron and building empires in the middle ages. Though many did, and even still do live as hunter gatherers as well.

There is also an "Austronesian" element in the malagasy people on madagascar, who were mixed with sea-farers from south east asia DEEP in prehistory.

All of the above can be further divided, especially the bantu and nilotics, both comprised of many distinctive people. Whether they can be picked out of a crowd depends on the skills of the picker, but it shouldn't be THAT hard for anyone to distinguish between the main basal groups of africans-

Afro Asiatic-


Nilotic-


Capoid-


Pygmy-


Bantu-


Austronesian/malagasy-


Edited Afro-Asiatic to be more typical and less deceptively black looking.

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The left Capoid looks a tad Asian Native American/Alaskan-like, lol.

Am I bad for thinking the pygmies (especially the adults) look funny due to their height?

Is Madagascar, which is also part of Africa, inhabited by the Malagasy? Made me think of Malaysia for some reason lmao.
^Would help if I read your answer properly, geez.