Why do people who live in rural areas look different than those who live in the city?

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Original post by Short Story Long

In Norfolk, where I live is not affluent but there is a mixed of people and looks. In the surrounding villages there is still a large mix of people. It's not that clear cut. There are also some very very rich villages but the people who go to my sixth form from their do not seem massively different and all have really dark hair. I'm sure there there is variation there too.

My sixth form has no foreign person/color in it except for borders (mostly from the middle East). Everyone has pale skin and blonde/brown hair, even the teachers! However, in the town 5 miles away, there's people with black hair/foreign looking and quite ugly. So it's definitely isolated I think.

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Student#123

Original post by SpiggyTopes

It's certainly not genetic, and it would be inbreeding not interbreeding.

You have white people living in the city. However they do not look as refined as this and I don't believe that they ever could due to their genes. It's not their fault mind you but there's definitely something quantifiable between the two groups. I read somewhere that inbreeding becomes positive after a certain number of generations within an isolated area.

This could explain why I and many others around me look like rural people. I don't know...

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Short Story Long

Original post by Student#123

Just a head's up- you sound a bit snobby :s-smilie:

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TheStudent1289

Original post by jesscc

I actually live in a city not the inner part but it's still a city (London), regardless of where they are situated people all over the country claim benefits in rural areas too and they also have just as many unemployment and unskilled individuals as those in cities. It's just more publicised by the media when dealing with urban areas, hence the overgeneralisations. I understand where you are coming from, but cities also have large houses, large gardens ect.

Yes I accept your point too. But a large proportion of those in the inner city are in the top 10% most deprived people in the nation (I don't know the exact figure). And yes, there are large houses within the city. However I'm talking about the 'inner' city where the make-up of houses is generally 19th century terraced housing. These were the houses constructed for those employed by the companies whose factories are a short distance from said houses. The majority of those factories are now redundant (due to the fact that the UK is now mainly a nation specialising in the tertiary and quaternary sectors rather than the primary and secondary sectors, for which large scale factories and warehouses would be required).

The larger houses (semi-detached) tend to be located within the suburban areas, with council-owned homes towards the boundary between the inner city and suburban area. Those houses on the rural-urban fringe tend to be the largest within the city area (semi-detached and detached housing) with bigger gardens, bigger garages and driveways etc.

Generally, wealth of individuals increases as you progress outwards from the inner city to rural settlements. Crime rates tend to be high within the inner city, particularly car vandalism, as terraced houses (obviously) do not have driveways for which car owners to park their vehicles.

Sorry, got a bit carried away...

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Student#123

Original post by Short Story Long

Just a head's up- you sound a bit snobby :s-smilie:

Well I don't intend to portray myself this way. I feel sorry for the lady who works in our local supermarket. She is foreign and people judge her because of her creed. I'm not racist mind you but I'd say 99% of the people where I live are which is a terrible shame.

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SpiggyTopes

Original post by Student#123

If there is a difference, which I very much doubt, it will be due to environmental and not genetic factors.

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TheStudent1289

Original post by Student#123

The proportion of ethnic minorities decreases as you progress from the inner city towards rural settlements. Again due to the fact that foreigners tend to migrate to the UK (for economic purposes) and so cannot afford the large houses located in rural settlements and so have to purchase/rent those cheaper households. Often, ethnic minorities create 'ghettos' within the city and are often segregated from the rest of the city.

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tehforum

Original post by TheStudent1289

Spot on.

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Short Story Long

Original post by Student#123

I wasn't trying to be mean I was just pointing it out :smile:

. Its just because you put so much emphasis on peoples ugly characteristics, but having dark hair is not weird or lower class at all. You seem to have a very limited view of beauty.