QUEER ...hahahah
POINT well made ALLstar ... i hate STUCK up people .... specially ARABS who think that
they are too SPECIAL ....JUST wait till all their OIL is gone ....
Hey Nadia luvvie, I hear you have a web page, please email me the details, I'd love to check it!
allstar...where the HELL DID ALL OF THAT COME FROM? I didn't say n e thing on the lines of pakistani guyz/girls being like that...
Facts about Melanin
Dr. Malachi Z. York
Melanin is important because it's the most primitive and universal pigment in living organisms. Melanin is produced in the pineal gland. Abundantly found in primitive organisms such as fungi, as well as advanced primates. Furthermorewithin each living organism, melanin appears to be located in the major fun- ctional sites. For example, in vertebrates, melanin is not only present in the skin, eyes, ears, central nervous system, it can also be found in the pineal gland, pituitary gland, thyroid gland, thymus gland, adrenal gland, and the barathary galnd. Melanin is abundantely present in the viscera, including the heart, liver, arteries, the muscles, and the gastrointestinal tract. Thus, within each and every living organ which aids the human body melanin appears. Regardless of what color your skin appears to be all genes in all creatures on this planet are black because they are coated with melanin.
The amount of melanin in the skin is one of the most variable of human traits, and many polygenes are involved. Groups of people or the population of the world were once classified according to the skin shade: Black (Nubians), White (Caucasians), Yellow (Orientals) and Red (Native Americans) etc.. We must realize that just because this is the way they have classified people does not mean this is the way it should be. The hues of color of your skin depends on several factors. First is the amount of melanin in the outer layers of the skin. melanin acts as a filter to prevent damage to the delicate deeper layers of the skin, by penetration of ultraviolet light.
There are more than one type of melanin. You have brain melanin, also known as neuromelanin, and you have skin melanin. Neuromelanin does not run parallel with skin melanin, Whether white, red, yellow, black, or brown, neuromelanin, plays an important role in functioning of the brain, and nervous system. Melanosomes (small structures within the melanocyte cells where melanin is syn- thesized) find their way into the hair cells, giving them color. (Two types of melanin, one dark brown and one red, are responsible for all hair shades).
Pigments that contribute to skin color are called carotene, a yellowish hemoglobin, in blood vessels (pink-red), and melanin (black, brown,red). Darker skins are dominated by melanin, which is produced from the amino acid tyrosine, by pigment cells (melanocytes) in the skin. Melanocytes are characterized by long, fixed extensions of the oute cell membrane. In humans, other mammals, and birds, melanin is dispersed permanentely throughout each melanocyte, including the extensions, and is also, trnasported to nearby skin cells. In other words, if you increase the amount of melanin in the skin you become darker and vice versa.
So, what is so important about melanin? Melanin controls all mental and physical body activities. Melanin is an extremely stable molecule, and highly resistant to the digestion by most acids and bases, and is one of the hardest molecule to ever be analyzed. If you do not purify your melanin molecule, you will not heal your body of diseases.
In parts of Africa, India, and Australia the deposits of melanin in the skin is heavest because the people have been exposed to the most intense sunlight for generations. Northern Europeans have the least amount of deposits in their skin are lighter, not to mention their weather is cloudy and cool. The thick- ness of the outer layer of the skin is also a factor. People with darker skin complextions have thicker layers of skin. And this is a factor alone enhances the skins flitering effect. The thinner the skin the least melanin. When the skin is very thin, the blood vesels show through and give a pinkish color. When an individual adapts to the shifting of the intensity of the sunlight, the skin becomes darker because they are exposed to more sunlight. That's how you get suntans because it's the result of both thickening and increasing the melanin in the skin. Keratin is the substance the nails of the fingers and toes are made of. It also appears in the outer layer of the skin. When ker- atin deposits are heavy, the skin has a yellowish, brown shade,as in the Mongolian populations. They have adapted along a different pathway to avoid the damaging effects of ultraviolet light. The reddish hue of the Native Americans results from a combination of keratin and melanin deposits.
Siraj is a BLACK Pakistani, and proud of it.
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Heya queer...
About the misr thing ... if you dont know Arabic is a language with different dialects ... that means that a Libyan speaks differently from an Iraqi which is different from an Egyptian. Thats why masri means the same thing as misri.
And queer ive lived in 4 different Arab countries so i know. This just isnt your domain.
Why dont you stick to the politics section Queer and post a few more 'i luv india' posts.
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err...guyz...no harsh argument needs to be going round here (right?) ?
WHOA!!! This topic came from "gora/gori" "savela/saveli" to EGYPT/ KUWAIT/UAE/RACIST/STUCK UP PPLE!! GOSH!!! LOL!!!
"NASD" IS THE WORD I'M LOOKING FOR!!!!
allstar honey
Misri means Egyptian ----------well dah ofcourse i know that
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as for me being religous never claimed to be one … believe in Allah and His Last Messenger …other then that all is bull (oh then its after all my own opnion)
as for the jews they are humans and are entitled to their own rights …pls dont have this attitude tht just cause ur a muslim u regard all others as scums …na na na bachay thats too sad and bad …no wonder pakistan is in such deep sh…oops trouble …
oh but then i am not in a mood of discussing politics …
Nageena webpage???
which one honey ???
and do i know u ???
Hey Siraj that was really informative!!!!!
i cant define my color, if someone else wants to define it, they can do it for me. :) :)
i had posted a thread in "meeting new people" forum about why desis prefer lighter skin. not too many responded though.
anyway, i dont know about others, but i was not raised to notice these differences. they exist yes, but i wont put much importance to it. i have too many other things to consider. boi boi. :) :)
Learn to love yourself, then learn to love one-another
Let's see, I have both brown and white spots, much like a Holstein cow.
No, I am striped like a zebra. If you look at me through venetian blinds, I might look light, I might look dark.
In joined this topic a bit late---hmmmm!
The eternal question eh? Gori ya saanwali?
Me, I'm a wheatish brown :)
I think ke in all cultures throughout history--and much before colonisation by the goras of our countries--fair skin has been considered attractive.
I find all shades of girls attractive ;)--it depends on the naqsh -o chihra more than anything else (and the PERSONALITY) and the ADAA.
Give me a saanwali girl with mashraqi qualities ANYDAY over a maghribi girl who is gori...
:) :) :)
Misr is very famous for it's husn in the East...I'll elt you guys work out why... :)
Asif Sahib, I read somewhere that you are a married man and quite recently too. so to quote: give me a sanvaleey girl with mashraki etc....... why do you want to have a sanvalee girl with masharaki qualities. Aap ki biwi kiya hai?
Nageena this is whats called "Post Marital Syndrome" ;)
ok ok asif bhai why getting angry i was just kidding ;)
ooooo misri ppl are beautiful ....hmm now was that a hidden compliment ;)
actually u can call them more exotic .... ;)
Well as Bhola#1 said inner beauty is important.... but we still look at the face as the first step towards getting to know a person...
I would say Savala is great.
Well, depends what u want ... and like. If u are a gora rang crazy u will ignore the person of dark complexion and if u are SaNvala rang crazy then u wont like a gora rang. But its not only the rang its the featuers as well playing the major role to make a person look beautiful.