If There Are Black, White, Red, Yellow People, Why Not......?

Question

If there are black, white, red, yellow people in the world, why there are not green and blue people?

Answer 1

This might go in the Question Hall of Fame.

Answer 2

Green with envy and blue from the cold?

Actually color coding humans is very racist.  I am not 'white' for example.

Answer 3

Who says there aren't?

Answer 4

they were obliterated in the Pastel Wars in the 3rd century AD under the rule of Sven the Adequate, king of Delaware and Rehoboth Beach.

Answer 5

If you're green at any place on your body, you've probably got gangrene.  If you're blue, you probably need oxygen.

Answer 6

There are. The green ones are called Vulcans, and the blue ones are either Andorians or Bolians.

Oh, and hold your nose... the guy above me just farted.

Answer 7

Isn't it interesting to note that:

White people can range in color from alabaster white to the darkest brown:

That the yellow races can range in color from alabaster white to the darkest brown?

The red man can range in color from alabaster white to the darkest brown?

Black people can range in color from alabaster white to the darkest brown?

Who farted?  Don't blame the dog!

Answer 8

blue ones are cold green ones are vegetarian

Answer 9

There is the Blue Man Group..

Answer 10

Melanin doesn't come in green and blue! Skin colour is a factor of melanin concentration and has shown regional variations in the past to counteract the intensity of the sun, or lack there of.  Prehistorically melanin was selected for based on the reproductive results between how much melanin each individual had and how that effected our bodies chemistry with respect to health and reproduction.  Our differences in skin tones, therefore, was because of evolution. Ultimately the driving force of evolution is reproductive success and while there is a variance in every population the overall tone will drift to what is best suited for each environment over generations. As is seen across the globe, there is the general rule that people who live in equatorial regions are darkest and this blends until artic areas are reached where people are the lightest. Like I said, the reason why this was prehistorically was because of reproductive sucess. For instance at equatorial areas the harsh uv rays from the sun breakdown certain vitamins and chemicals that are active in the operations in the human body. One of these is vitamin B, but the most important chemical that is broken down by sunlight as far as reproduction is concerned is folic acid. Folic acid is crucial to rapid cell development so if an extremely light skinned individuals are habituating in tropical regions the males will experience a reduction in their sperm count, and women would experience more miscarriages because Folic acid is extremely important for foetal development. Conversly, dark people habituating in northern hemisphere localities will have a reduced absorption of vitamin D which is also important for foetal development and for general health which would cause a reproductive discrepancy that would cause this darker toned characteristic to have been selected against.

Another medical condition that is often pointed at in this discussion is cancer, but in fact cancer has very little effect on reproductive sucess because the majority of cancer ocurrs after reproduction, and as of such, would not effect reproductive success in the same way as the previous examples.

Now, earlier I mentioned "in prehistoric times", and that was on purpose. Our knowledge and technology has already deafeated these prehistoric influences on skin colour from having an effect on reproductive sucess in modern times. Light toned people living in tropical areas can simply take vitamin b/folic acid supplements as well as use sunscreen to block the intensity of uv in breaking down the chemicals/vitamins that are important for reproduction and dark toned people living in northern environments don't even particularily need to focus on taking supplements because even in the winter, when their vitamin d deficiency should be the worst, the contemporary supermarket is full of imported fresh produce and milk both of which allow an ample offset to any loss of vitamin d that may be experienced.

So into the future this selective pressure will no longer be an issue and if all populations mixed then we would just be a widely varied mix of colour everywhere around the globe that would be primarily brown in tone and there would be no reason for colour to be selected for in either direction so long as darker toned people continued to eat their produce and lighter toned people remembered to take their folic acid and wear sunscreen.

Answer 11

Good question. Wish I had the answer! I know when I was a little girl I used to tell people I was "peach" colored, not white. I think it was because that was the name of the crayon color I used for my skin when I drew self-portraits. I have always thought describing someone with a color is kind of silly. My grandmother is from the Old South and still calls African Americans "colored people". That is so ridiculous to me. We are all "colored" aren't we? My skin is kind of golden tan, but my personality is more like hot pink (bright, happy, kind of girly).

If you were looking for a more literal answer, all I can say is that the Smurfs are blue and Aliens are supposedly greenish.

Answer 12

Your skin color comes from the amount of Melanin in your skin and it does not cause skin to turn blue or green.

Answer 13

Because the martians have yet to land and successfuly procreate with humans.

Answer 14

Our cells use melanine pigments to determined our skin colorations. To get green we will need chlorophyll`s as for the blue one, we will need some other kinds of pigment found in fishes and whales.

We did not yet reach this level of evolution.

Answer 15

I farted

Answer 16

Perhaps blue and green skin does not stand up to Sunlight, such as we receive it here on this Earth.

Perhaps green or blue skin would fit better those "people" who live on Worlds further away from their particular Star, that may not give off the same kind ,or intensity, of light as ours?  I`ve heard it told by very responsable people, such as those who are teaming up to get people to accept that Extra-terrestres really do exist,( and that they have seen them(!), )that green and blue people do exist, but that evidently they live on  other Worlds, as I have suggested here.

Everything is possible in the Universe!