A person is always interested in something unknown and unusual. Therefore, people have always been attracted by such natural phenomena as white crows, deer, white mice and snakes. Such animals were considered magical, possessing divine power.
As for people, blond Indians and blacks look strange to us, at least. Very often they become the cause of gossip and fantasies, unfortunately, by no means a positive orientation. Let's see who these albinos are - people and animals, and what they really are.
Albinism is a genetic pathology, the external signs of which are the lack of color of the skin, hair and irises of the eyes.
According to statistics, approximately one person out of 20 thousand living is born with completely white hair, skin and eyelashes. Initially, it seems that people are albinos with red eyes. Such a color seems so because the vessels of the eyeball and the bottom are translucent and give a similar shade to the organs of vision.
The fact is that these people do not produce melanin - the pigment that gives the race a characteristic coloration. They are often born not only among Europeans, but also in the families of Indians and African Americans.
Sometimes situations arise when a person has developed partial albinism (insufficient amount of this pigment), therefore he has light blue eyes and blond hair. If this diagnosis appears in a representative of the Negroid race, his skin becomes spotty.
Albino people suffer from high eye sensitivity. They should always wear sunglasses. A similar sensitivity also applies to the skin, which leads to the rapid onset of burns. They are prone to developing skin cancer.
If you examine the reasons why such anomalies occur, it is worth noting that albinism is a disease that occurs when a person inherits this gene from both parents. Moreover, one of them can be an albino, and the other can only be a carrier. Parents can also be ordinary people, but if they have this gene, the probability of giving birth to an albino child is 25%. Albino people are not born if at least one of the parents does not have this gene.
On average, there are a lot of such carriers on the planet: approximately 1 out of 70 people.
Now we need to consider the question, why are these people white? The fact is that white is not a color, but its absence. The gene discussed above carries incorrect information that is used to synthesize an enzyme that promotes the production of melanin. It is called tyrosinase. And albino people are characterized by the fact that they have this enzyme produced either with a defect or with a low degree of activity.
However, it is important to remember that this element is also important for the body because it takes part in such necessary processes as protein synthesis and many other substances.
Therefore, albino people, in addition to external defects, also have many metabolic disorders, the immune system, as well as malfunctioning of vital organs.
Concerning such people there used to be many myths and beliefs. They were called "people of the night" because they supposedly could not appear in the light of the sun. However, as we know, there is a completely understandable reason for this: their skin is very sensitive to the action of rays.
Also, many believe that they are doomed to early death. Of course, they have many diseases, therefore such an assumption may arise. But in general, their life expectancy is the same as for people with ordinary skin color.
They used to be feared. Now everyone knows who these albino people are and what their nature is, so there is no point in fearing them.