Most people think of black Africans as dark-skinned, with large eyes, a collapsed nose, and very thick lips.
But anyone who knows anything about Africa should know that not all black people look the same!
Darker skin tones, collapsed noses, and thick lips are just one type of black look. And what is completely different from this appearance is the appearance of the Ethiopians!
Ethiopia is located in the eastern part of the African continent and is a serious black African country.
But the appearance of Ethiopians is very unique among black Africans, and they are not quite the same as blacks in most African countries!
The appearance characteristics of Ethiopian blacks: light complexion, three-dimensional facial features!
Ethiopians do not have the same dark skin tones as the blacks of West Africa and South Africa, and their real skin tones are close to light brown or light chocolate.
At the same time, the facial features of the Ethiopians are also deeper and more three-dimensional, the bridge of the nose is mostly very high, and the face shape is also very narrow, giving people the impression of southern Europeans or Arabs with darker skin.
This is a very ordinary poster on the streets of Ethiopia, and the models in it are native Ethiopians, and you can see if the skin is lighter and similar to Arab women.
This is the most famous king in Ethiopian history - Selassie I, looking at this deep facial features and thick beard, he even looks a little like people from Turkey and Greece.
This is a photo of the streets of Ethiopia, and the men and women in it give the impression that it is not "African"!
To be honest, the appearance of the Ethiopians is different from the roughness of other blacks, they are more delicate and feminine overall, and they are also very in line with the aesthetics of the Orientals.
Ethiopia itself is also a place where beauty pageant winners are produced, and most of the "black pearl" beauties that people talk about are of the Ethiopian type.
There are also the following two beautiful photos that are widely circulated on the Internet, which are likely to be Ethiopian types of appearance at a glance, which is very in line with the image of "Black Pearl" in everyone's hearts!
Not long ago, I saw the news of an African bride marrying into China, judging from the exposed photos, this African bride is indeed very beautiful, and her facial features, face shape and figure are very in line with the aesthetics of the Chinese people! I guess she probably also has Ethiopian genes.
Although Ethiopians are very different from other black Africans, they still have a strong sense of African identity!
The headquarters of the "African Union" is located in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
African elements can be found everywhere on the streets of Ethiopia's major cities, such as the illustrations created on the African continent below.
However, Ethiopians, while identifying with Africa, do not consider themselves black!
Some people ask: Do they identify as white, or are they mulatto?
In fact, Ethiopians consider themselves neither black nor white.
Are Ethiopians mestizos?
Since the "Great Geographical Discovery", in the past few hundred years, various races and nationalities have accelerated their integration with each other, and many mixed-race races have also been derived.
Typically, in Latin America today, the dominant race in the region is the "Indo-European" race, that is, a new ethnic group of Indians mixed with European Caucasians.
Mestizo Indo-European
There is a separate division for this ethnic group in the United States, which is "Hispanic".
So are "neither black nor white" Ethiopians considered mixed-race?
In fact, strictly speaking, the Ethiopians are not a mixed race, they can actually be counted as an independent race - the "black and white transitional race".
Although the transitional race may seem like a mestizo, the two are not biologically the same concept.
In fact, there is a wide range of such transitional races in East Africa, which we can collectively refer to here as the "Ethiopian race".
The "Ethiopian race" is not only distributed in Ethiopia, but also settled in large numbers in Somalia, Eritrea and other countries.
The Ethiopian race is genetically intermediate between Nilotic and Caucasian, meaning that most of them have at least half of their West Caucasian ancestry.
This is a good explanation for why Ethiopians have relatively light skin tones and high levels of facial features.
According to anthropologists and historians, the ancestors of the modern Ethiopian people can be traced back to a great migration about 20,000 years ago.
At that time, a large number of Caucasians migrated from West Asia to Africa, and what many people may not know is that Caucasians 20,000 years ago did not look the same as they do today!
Today's Caucasians, as we often call whites, have the whitest skin of any race. But the Caucasians in ancient times were not white, but a little black!
The Caucasians who remained in Eurasia gradually evolved white skin, while the Caucasians who migrated to Ethiopia did not develop the characteristics of white skin, and over time, they gradually formed an independent race of Ethiopians.
That's why we call Ethiopians "black and white transitional people", they are very different from mestizos!
Finally, an interesting fact, Ethiopians have a strong preference for light skin tones.
For example, Ethiopian women are probably the most sun-conscious people on the African continent! As long as there is sun, most Ethiopian women must carry parasols when they go out, which is not inferior to East Asian women.
This also shows that "white is beautiful" is sought after by most people!