Are Aborigines considered black people?

[Anonymous]

Sometimes Aborigines are born with blond hair blue eyes.

Many are also born with straight hair that can be many different colors.

[lord_chilled]

I think the light hair comes from european ancestry.
Most native populations outside of Europe had almost exclusively black hair, regardless of skin tone.
I think australian natives are natives like the American natives, hawaiians, eskimos etc..
They developed pigmentation and features similar to some Africans.
But since people do use black people as a term synonymous with African or African origin people, i wouldn't say australians are truly black.
If we trace it all back pretty much all people have African roots so i guess in the modern application of the term, they aren't.

Off topic, i think the use of black, as a race is too much of a generalization.
Because apparently africa has a vast difference and much bigger variety of genes than any other continent. I heard somewhere that even a small part somewhere in africa ( i dont remember the country) there were differences in genes among the people much more than in the rest of the world. I think people of the African continent have multiple races within themselves, in terms of what we consider as a race today.

[Youngpapai]

It's wrong ! No decent of Europeans or Americans. Geneticist Sean Myles and one of his "colleagues" collected samples of hair and saliva from 1209 residents of Solomon Island. They compared their characteristics with theirs. In all, they compared 43 blond instellars and 42 brown inselulars. They therefore discovered that there were different versions of an essential gene, that is to say for the one that coded for a protein in pigmentation. They therefore carry two copies of a mutant gene, which is present in 26% of the population. Children of blonde hair inherit directly from their parents. It's a recessive gene.

[xMiaxBuerx]

You know that Aborigines are considered Neo-Humans, that means they don't have only 44 Autosomes and 2 Sex Chromosomes but rather 46 Autosomes + 2 S. C. I feel like these tribes are like prototypes of what a futuristic human being should be. They succeeded at completely defying the criteria of matching skin color with eyes/hair. Some people like to believe that these tribes have been invaded by aliens that completely changed their DNA, some give it a more rational explanation as these unique looking fellows might have mated with Caucasians but I'm always dubious about that. If this last was true, they would've had a creamier/lighter skin color at least. To answer your questions, even if Aborigines are dark skinned, they are not considered Africans/ Black. They can be called Negroids or Trobian Islanders...

[ColoradoChick84]

They're neo-humans. They're their own racial subgroup

[RolandCuthbert]

I do not think aborigines can be said to have anything significant from a genetic or cultural standpoint in common with African-Americans. But I could be wrong. It is kind of hard to have this conversation without any opinions from the group. It would be interesting to hear what they have to say.

From a genetic standpoint, I am think we have very little in common. But as for a more important cultural connection. . . that could be up for some discussion.

[Bananaman177]

The term "Aborigine" just means any group or tribe that has lived in the same place for all of recorded History. Aborigines live on almost every continent, the ones who live in Australia are just the most famous ones.

And they are genetically distinct from Africans. "Black" doesn't really mean anything. Plenty of Asians have darker skin than light-skinned African Americans, so are the dark-skinned Asians "Black?" So basically, there is no correct answer to your question.

[Regular1]

I'm pretty sure Aborigines are their own unique racial subgroup.

[Booguy]

Aborigens can be ani race, becouse it's not aboun god damn Africa, bur about people that are native to certain land.

[jp612612]

I thought you guys considered them fauna?