Hi Richard!

Speaking of bias, the problem with your response to my photo essay is that it smacks of confirmation bias.

The clearest examples are the references you’ve made to the phenotypical diversity of human groups on the continent of Africa, and what some of us ultimately describe as “Africanness.”

Meanwhile, as I’ve stated to other commenters who’ve made the SAME mistake by assuming the essay is saying something that it does not, the essay doesn’t contain a single reference to the continent or populations of Africa. Not one, Richard.

So the real problem, then, is that when YOU see an essay on dark skinned Asians, you think that you are seeing something *other* than what has been stated in the text.

To be fair, Richard, I will say that, although some readers would like there to be a quick and easy shortcut to the answers that questions an essay like this generates, there are no shortcuts. I can say this because I, for one, actually do know the answers.

But that wasn’t the purpose of this essay. Particularly when I know there are those who are mostly just looking at the pictures anyway, and assuming what’s written in the text. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯