When a light-skinned person blushes or becomes pale with fear, this is clearly visible in their face. This is not the case with a dark-skinned person. A person is vulnerable in states such as embarrassment, shame, and fear. These states easily show on a light-skinned person's face, but not on a dark-skinned person's face. Dark-skinned people thus have a natural defense working for them, a kind of natural poker face. Light-skinned people/cultures have developed ways of dealing with those easily visible vulnerable states, in order to protect themselves - defense mechanisms such as denial and rationalization or emotional numbness. Some of these defenses can be counterproductive or otherwise harmful. Dark-skinned people/cultures do not have this challenge to face, and can thus afford greater directness and openness in their dealings with their fellow humans. This could explain the culture clash that many whites experience when dealing with blacks or Indians, for example. Please discuss.
huhhhhhh. . . Interesting to think about, at the very least. @arauca-how would getting a suntan affect something culturally acquired? Your communication habits don't change just cause you got some color, dude.
Well, I would suspect that each group of color tone skin has different tell-tale signs of emotion that can be read with the eye. Overall a person does not have to be assesed on sight features as there are other senses besides the eye to deteched emotions. How ever i would also say that different skin tones cause the iris of eye to contract differently just as bright and dim lights. for example a black person would cause the iris of your eye to open or relax, where in contrast a white persons skin tone would cause the iris of your eye to close. with this difference in light reception details or preception of the individual would change, learning to pay attention to observed object might lead to finding traits equally observeable in both skin tones. for example you will find that dark skined people also blush during embarassment. Also to be taken into consideration is that asking a question can intice a response that is untrue to a persons position or character. DwayneD.L.Rabon
Well, So then it would seem they suggest that their are communication problems because tell-tale signs are not observable at a glance, seems a little shellfishy as you need to look into a person to see the character of thier blush, the blush could be laughter and not anger or embarassment. DwayneD.L.Rabon
The only difference I really see is that it is easier for a person of darker ethnicity to tell and maybe read the flustered or hot state of someone of a fairer complexion. However, people from ethnicity's with darker features I am sure have no problems reading each other. lol To say that their skin tones don't change shade as they become hot would show inexperience in dealing with different ethnic groups. Blood flow rises to the skin and changes the hue of skin pigmentation no matter what color it originally is. But then, that comes from an artist that deals with color, and I see the many many different shades and variations of subtitles in color. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
