i need the straight dope on something. lets say someone who was born and raised in southern california but is fully white be darker than someone who is fully white and grew up in superior wisconsin. what I am saying is can you be born from white parents but look dark like if you were mexican or permanently tan, or something like that . does geography effect your skin color permanently. if someone were to move to and live in laguna beach california for 10 years would their skin color be affected
Google is your friend. So is spell check, and a punctuation guide. You will do much better asking questions here if you word and punctuate them properly.
wait my puncuation is perfect. does geography effect your skin color or is it all from genetic traits?
Yes, living in an overly sunny area can permanently alter your skin tone.
Superior Wisconsin has lovely clouds, and they protect your skin from mean old Mr. Sun.
Does your keyboard have a shift key? A period key? A question mark key?
It is much easier to understand a paragraph if its broken up into recognizable parts called sentences, which begin with the first letter of the first word Capitalized.
To Capatalize, just hold the shift key while typing the letter.
A question ends in a question mark (?). Again, hold the shift key while striking the / key, and it magically becomes a question mark.
We can go over commas and higher forms of punctuation at a later time. (Or not)
Thank you
As to your question, yes, skin color can permanently change, but facial features don’t.
Each race has its own typical facial features. Of course, mixed race individuals can have features of both parents.
If your features identified you as a particular race prior to tanning, most people would see you as a tan person of that race.
Prolonged tanning causes skin to wrinkle, you might be preceived older than your age, but its a stretch that your heritage be mistaken. IMHO.