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Isn't it simply because of race?
by anovikov 1y ago
Isn't it simply because of race?
- lgeorget 1y agoBetween USA and western Europe? Is there a difference?
- ben_w 1y agoNot many ancestrally native Americans in Europe, relatively few jews compared to the USA (but more other semetic groups, I don't know if that balances or not), the sub-saharan Africans in Europe had a lot more volunteers and less industrialised human trafficing and are in any case very much more diverse genetically than people think due to superficial characteristics like skin colour (seriously, substitute race discussion about skin to be about blonde vs brunette to see how silly the groups are), and there's more of Irish in the US than the current population of Ireland. Probably loads of other differences too.
- pm90 1y agoWhile genetics might play a small role for very specific reasons (eg a society thats prone to sickle cell disease will likely live shorter), there’s no such difference in large, diversified populations like US/Europe.
- CalRobert 1y agoI guess pale people and/or bald people could die younger due to skin cancer? I know I need to be really careful since losing my hair.
- modo_mario 1y agoAnd most of the US gets a lot more sun exposure than most of europe. Also African americans...Well just black people in this context are more than twice as likely to get prostate cancer (more like 3 times given lower detection i've heard it said) supposedly because they have higher testosterone.
- viraptor 1y agoYou'd really need to say what you mean by that. Otherwise just throwing it out like that sure seems like a dogwhistle.
- bboozzoo 1y agoDid you mean a race towards the end of one's life?