Albinos
From Wiki:
While the most common term for an individual affected by albinism is "albino", some prefer "person with albinism", because "albino" is often used in a derogatory way.
[i prefer "pigmentally challenged"]
About 1 in 17,000 people have some type of albinism, although up to 1 in 75 are carriers.
Lack of melanin in the eye also results in problems with vision unrelated to photosensitivity.
People with albinism are generally as healthy as the rest of their species, with growth and development occurring as normal. Many animals with albinism, however, lose their protective camouflage and are unable to conceal themselves from their predators or prey. The survivability rate of animals with albinism in the wild is usually quite low. The largest problem people with albinism face is social, as the condition is sometimes a source of teasing during adolescent years.
Due to albinism's effect on one's outward appearance, cultures around the world have developed many myths and superstitions regarding people with albinism.
A common misconception is that albino individuals of a species are sterile, but albinos are fully capable of reproducing.
A myth has developed in Zimbabwe that having sex with a woman with albinism will cure a man of HIV. This has led to many women with albinism in the area being raped.
In Jamaica, West Indies, people with albinism have been degraded and regarded as cursed. In recent times, the albino dancehall singer Yellowman has helped to end this stereotype.
In some cultures, people with albinism are thought to have magical powers, as depicted in the 1995 film Powder, or are able to tell the future.
It is also thought by many that people with albinism live short life spans. This is not true, but may be a distorted view of a more reasonable fact that people with albinism have a higher risk of skin cancer if they do not use proper skin protection when in the sun.
posted by lucibel at
8:04 pm
2 Comments:
That doesnt excuse them from having no pigment, they just were not trying hard enough to create pigment when developing. It shows a lack of character! Damn useless albino people! Just becaus they have no pgment they get to sit at the front of lectures and have telescopes in class. I bet they get all kinds of special considerations as well. Bastards! Can people see that they are not special or extraordinary, they are lacking, they are subordinary, they should be treated as such! Stigma should be attached to this condition. What great sports people have been albino? 1 in 17 thousand, that means of 350000 albinos world wide not one great sportsman. They are just not trying. They serve not purpose in our sociaty, no purpose in our world, and no purpose in our sporting teams. May god have mercy on there souls, for i will not.
You should be nicer to the pigmentally challenged. We need entertainment, and in the same way that a clown provides for his circus, the albino provides for his lecture. Curse not this noble creature, who has chosen a life of difference that we might have distraction from a dreary lecture, substance for our blogs and content for the more henenous enemy, the statistician, to occupy themselves with.
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