African Diaspora - Top 10 Countries

The definition or perception of skin tone varies greatly between countries. E.g. a white Brazilian might be seen as black in US.

@roleybob. You have to write < br> (without the space between <, and b!) before the sentence which you want to be on new paragraph.

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You can also make text bold or itallic if you put it < b>here< /b> or < i>here (again without the spaces).

Wow.

I learned something.

Quizmaster, what about a quick course on HTML tags (focused on quiz comments) as the next entry of the JetPunk blog?

Surely it would bring joy and ease of mind to several people who can't get why their newlines don't appear after submitting their comments.

@angropber14 Yes, please! I can't wait to discover all the codes that some commenters use but I have no idea how. Using these one could change a block of text to something better-built.

This is one of those moments where technically you are right, but logically you know this quiz means something other than that. Are you that one person that when they taught you "Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world" and you said "Technically Mauna Kea is". Technically you are right... but everyone else doesn't care... Cause I am totally one of those people!

Html code is quite easy enough to find, just google it. That is what I did when I saw others with paragraphs. only takes a few seconds to type it into to google, no need for a tutorial on jetpunk. Otherwise, they might as well give a spelling course, lessons on punctuation, an English course, and above all a course in common courtesy.

Since you are including people of mixed descent, it would be very surprising if the great majority of people in most countries did not have an ancestor from sub-Saharan Africa in less than 1000 generations. As a "white" British person who doesn't know of any ancestors who weren't British, I am prepared to accept that I may not have had an ancestor from sub-Saharan Africa in 20 generations. But if you could show me evidence that I didn't have any in 50 generations, I would be very surprised. The reason for this is that it only takes one of over 1 000 000 000 000 000 lines of ancestry to lead there, and some of my ancestors that far back are bound to be very rich people who could afford to travel.

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@TWM03 he was saying that humanity was all basically in sub-saharan africa ~1000 generations ago, not that the range is up to ~1000 generations

I think he means that all human life STARTED in Africa, then moved on to other places. Bit of a polyglot one that.

But "black" people is even more a terrible ill-defined term than "people of African descent." Most ignoramuses who actually believe the term has some realistic or useful application would probably group in Moroccan Touaregs, people from Nigeria and South Africa and Ethiopia, "African Americans," and Australian aboriginees etc. in to the same all-encompassing group even though these people have about zero in common genetically, culturally, et cetera. Just dark skin. And then, even that incredibly stupid distinction falls apart when these same people will probably call Colin Powell or Michael Jackson "black," but not someone from southern India whose skin is many shades darker. (or they may call such a person "black," adding in another group of people who share nothing in common with the first many sets).

Compounding the problem, those same people most likely would not consider the "Arab" north African populations of Egypt, Libya, Algeria, etc. to be "black," though they are most certainly African.

I think it means where their ancestors most recently immigrated from within the historical record.

diva, I've read similarly ridiculous explanations of who is or isn't "white" before. You must have missed them.

I don't see any angst at all, not more or less than trying to determine different types of trees or something. (yes it has the same serated leaves, but no it has different amount of leaves per twig) People argue all the time over how something fits in one botanical group or another and that doesnt have anything to do with angst.. let alone hysteria !

Just people liking to think in boxes, but cant agree what the box is or in which box something fits.

Hector: it absolutely is true. The genetic evidence is not at all ambiguous. There is nobody alive today that is 100% Neanderthal. Some people have 2% Neanderthal DNA at best. That means the other 98% of their DNA is homo sapien and homo sapiens first evolved in Africa. Additionally, the earliest hominid species, who were the ancestors of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo Sapiens, also evolved first in Africa... so... Neanderthals are also of African descent if you look back far enough.

Oldest civilization began in Mesopotamia, not the Indus Valley. The Indus Valley civilization was thousands of years after Mesopotamia and came after China, as well. But humans first evolved in Africa, and all humans alive today outside of Africa have ancestors who migrated out of Africa.

@gzx5 that is not some new discovery/idea/concept/theory. As far as I can remember the consensus have been, civilisation started in the mesopotamia, and our ancestors came from africa.

(@kalbahamut, thousands of years is not correct, it definitely was not after 1 AD...) even one thousand years is more than I see described everywhere, usually about 500 years is given between them. it does depend what requirements you use for civilisation. A writing system, laws, agriculture advanced structures. )

Agriculture began in the Fertile Crescent some 12,000 years ago. It began in China some 9-10 thousand years ago. It began in the Indus River Valley some 7 or 8,000 years ago. Thousands of years is accurate.

the quiz is about ALL countries that have atleast 1 person of african descend in them. It is about who has the MOST people of african descend.

The entire population of suriname does not even reach 600.000 so there is no way it could make it on this list. and if you would take the percantage that is atleast partially from african descend (not just subsaharan) you would ony be at about 200k. The netherlands would be on there before suriname, it has more than 2,5x as many (and panama and guyana are also below that. The same goes for everything in the Caribbean, the total population is lower than the lowest number on this list, so no way they could be on it.)

Mexico and usa are huge, so they only need a tiny % to make the list. It is not a joke at all, it makes perfect sense..

Depends on who is classifying them, since "black" is a classification without any real meaning.

This is a quiz about african descand, not "black people" which as is mentioned somewhere before, is a weird concept, some black people are less black if you take it literally and look at the skintone than others that arent considered black.

If you use one < br>,

the text will drop down to the next line.

If you want a blank space in between,

use 2 < br>s.

you could also wrap each paragraph in < p> and < /p>

That's how I did this