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EvilMegas posted...

You hear it here folks. Latin people can't be pale.

This isn't about Latin people but Rachel Zegler, and she isn't pale.

Gaawa_chan posted...

[Tolkien] invented Halflings/Hobbits.

No he didn't. He invented the word Hobbit, but he based the race on halflings of folklore.

Person106 posted...

Supposedly 90% of albinos in Africa are dead from skin cancer before 40...

I wouldn't be surprised if this was true. The whiter your skin, the more vulnerable you are to solar radiation. Considering Africa is the least protected continent against it, it's normal that skin cancer is common among pale skinned people living there. This is why some humans have black skin. Melanin provides protection against solar radiation. Albinism is basically a complete lack of melanin, so people affected by it are badly equipped to survive under the sun. The process of tanning is basically your body adapting to increased levels of solar radiation by producing more melanin. People with albinism are incapable of producing melanin.