Letters to the Editor,
The Daily Yomiuri,
1-7-1 Otemachi,
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8055
The January 25, 2009 article reprinted from The Times, “Why the future of the world is brown” was interesting. But the suggestion of human brownness is not a revelation. Just a little consideration tells us that the world is already brown. I mean, the color of a human being is naturally a shade of brown. The pigment that gives our skin color is melanin. The color of melanin is brown. Blacks have quite a lot of it and Caucasians have relatively little - but they do have it. Asians have a medium quantity. So all human beings are already a shade of brown on a scale of brownness, and it has nothing to do with interracial marriages. Interracial marriages have just a fringe effect. The human species is naturally a brown animal.