While the name refers directly to the sunglasses foreigners wear and the lack of the epicanthic fold in many Europeans, it is also an innuendo, metaphorically, at the naivet?of the outsiders who only through a haze saw the nation they were living in.
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But even then, given the feeble evidence, I stand by the position that the reason why the epicanthic fold exists is unknown, and only speculate about a possible evolutionary advantage .-- talk ) 12 : 52, 19 January 2016 ( UTC)
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There are other traits like Steatopygia and the epicanthic fold, blood types, limb length, tooth shape, lactose tolerance, and many other things that can vary along with what is perceived as race . talk ) 17 : 38, 17 June 2013 ( UTC)
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I know of no serious research to suggest the epicanthic fold is any different in this regard than variations in the morphology of the bridge of the nose, or skin tone, or any other feature which tends to vary between the races-- be the source sunlight, pathogen, or glowing mutagen.
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Claims of European admixture as a reason for European features in natives ( and vice versa, e . g Scandinavian epicanthic folds, most famously Bj�rk's ) based on hearsay accounts of shipwrecks or early intermarriages lost to history is common but unless substantiated by genetic studies, most if not all of it, is bullshit.
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:: : : I note also that mongoloid fold is a redirect to epicanthic fold and mong is listed at List of British words not widely used in the United States as " ( slang ) disgusting, dirty, foul, idiotic person, possible derivation from mongoloid, now obsolete term for someone with Down's Syndrome.
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The issue in question ( after you put the notion forth ) is whether the visually-recognizable " racial " characteristics are the result of natural selection . ( i . e . does skin pigmentation vary in populations as a direct result of the level of exposure to sunlight, are epicanthic folds defenses against some speculative parasite, ect . ) Correlation ` " causation.
