Black people don’t “usually have very dark skin” we basically have a whole damn rainbow of skin tones. I couldn’t let the overgeneralization rock.
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Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 10 months agoBut melanin is a shield for it, and the more melanin the darker the skin. As black people usually have a very dark skin, they have a lot of melanin and thus are way more protected against the sun than the average 60 yo fat guy that’s sunburnt red
maajmaaj@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Maybe African-Americans, but apart from Khoisan people and East Africans (Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia) most Africans do have a very dark skin.
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Dont they typically wear fairly long sleeved clothes and sometimes a headdress like a turban?
Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not really
db2@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
It’s skin, not magic. Do you even human? 🤣
Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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Kalothar@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
To answer yours question Melanin adds a resistant factor to it, but the actual sunburn is caused by actual damage at the cellar level from UVA and UVB rays.
Think of Melanin more like sunblock in that it extends the amount of time before noticeable damage to the sun will happen. While the time for sun damage to accumulate to be what you would call a sunburn might vary from person to person, everyone is still susceptible to UV damage.