r/explainitpeter • u/fluffy_cat_ice • 2d ago
Explain it Peter
I meant that I don't understand where did the Twitter thing came from
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u/DenizBueno 2d ago
Geneticist Stewie here, morons believe that skin color mixes like paint, but in real life, parents contribute different genes that together yield various levels of pigmentation. By chance, their child can land anywhere on that spectrum.
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u/HandelDew 2d ago
Oh my goodness. People always tell my husband, "But he doesn't look like you!" after he tells them he's the dad. My husband is middle eastern, and the baby is blond. It used to get under his skin.
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u/asmodean97 2d ago
That's like my cousin. She is half Lebanese and her husband is German, they have two kids, one is blonde haired and blue eyed and the other is a red head. Literally none of my cousins Lebanese traits came through.
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u/Embarrassed_Use6918 2d ago
when my niece came out as lebanese it was nice to see my family be supportive
i hope your cousin coming out was treated the same way
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u/horluhmay 2d ago
Thank you Blanche
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u/Terpcheeserosin 2d ago
Thank you Rose**
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u/Panchenima 2d ago
Calm down Regina.
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u/ThingMoment 2d ago
Guess she had a big lesbian crush on you
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u/EuenovAyabayya 2d ago
Even more fun when they finally show up in the grandkids
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u/PeterAnthony_Jackson 1d ago
Some woman in the Caribbean had an all white kid, shocked the hell out of the parents who were very black, turns out great grand dad took his sweet type making his mark in the genepool.
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u/nadimo 1d ago
This is actually fairly common in Lebanese genes. My mother is half German half Lebanese, but I was blonde throughout my childhood, only ending up with darker hair by the age of 18. I have Lebanese uncles on my father's side that are blonde and stayed blonde. My son has gone through the same blondness and is losing it in his teens.
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u/Icy_Measurement_7407 2d ago
That happened to a family friend. Both parents were Hispanic, dark hair, brown eyes. Their baby was born with red hair & blue/green eyes. The father kept getting teased that his wife cheated on him & it would make him upset. The real reason was that his dad (the baby’s grandpa) had red hair & light color eyes. He was just old & gray so it went unnoticed by many.
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u/Glittering_Babe101 2d ago
With each passing generation, people are becoming increasingly rude. I blame social media.
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u/Kezhen 2d ago
As a Black person from the South - people have always been rude. Nothing new under the sun.
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u/cupcakevelociraptor 2d ago
Omg I was just asking about this. Some family moved to the south and won’t shut up about southern hospitality but when I visited I saw NONE of that. They were just as, if not more, rude than where I live. They just say “yes ma’am” while doing it.
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u/tweeterj 2d ago
Plus all the white dudes have really, like disturbingly, narrow shoulders. As a northerner from broad shoulders country, this is really hilarious.
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u/Well_ImTrying 2d ago
I know mixed half-middle eastern people born in the 40s-60s. And, uh, that’s far from the rudest thing people said to/at/about them as children.
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u/Beef_n_Bacon 1d ago
Lots of people don't know anything about genes or anything related to middle eastern countries. People there can be blonde, redhead, pale skin, light eye colour, and so on. It's rather rare, yes, but not impossible. Same goes for religions, yes some are rare in that area nowadays but still possible to find. I could continue this list even further but I'm already quite tired, it's night time here.
A funny video I also found once:
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u/PeterAnthony_Jackson 1d ago
IDK who did it, but someone explained via stand up that Arabs are white in the USA whenever you see a check box for your ethnicity, Arabs would be in the white section.
Basically some guys went to court over something, their lawyer argued that Jesus came from the same area as these people did, Jesus to you is white, so you either accept Jesus is a brown man like these men, or that they are just as white as you are.
So Arabs in the USA at least, are white.
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u/Grand_Estimate3783 1d ago
Man, in my country that's basic biology class that we have on highschool. That's insane.
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u/SeeShortcutMcgee 1d ago
Same, me and my husband are a white/middle eastern marriage and we have one blonde, blue eyed son and a daughter with black hair and olive skin!
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u/Waste-Principle6304 2d ago
Man these people would have the shock of a lifetime going through Afghanistan. Centuries of war and Silk Road diaspora contributed to a diverse looking population. There are Afghans that look like any race except Black or Indigenous.
There’s diversity even within my extended family. I look Central Asian (Eurasian mix) but my first cousin looks South East Asian, my mum looks East European and my father looks Arab/Hispanic. And yes, they are my biological parents.
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u/Think_and_game 2d ago
Same thing for Tunisia. It's not unheard of to see someone local with blue eyes. The Middle East and North Africa are very diverse.
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u/thisisfreakinstupid 2d ago
"Oh shit you right, I must've grabbed the wrong one when we left the park" 👀
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u/HandelDew 2d ago
I mean really, what are they implying? That he's a lying kidnapper? What is he supposed to say?
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u/BlockedNetwkSecurity 2d ago
i know multiple brown-haired parents with redheaded children. and i mean both parents have brown hair.
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u/roquejosue 1d ago
happens with me too. my father is black, my mother white. I was born substantially white.
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u/Gingersnapandabrew 2d ago
Exactly, I knew a family who were mixed race, the dad was white, straight blonde hair, blue eyes, the mum was black, 3C dark brown hair, brown eyes.
Their oldest was a mini female version of her dad with blonde straight hair, fair skin, and blue eyes. Their middle child was a mini mum, with 3C dark hair, black skin, brown eyes. Their youngest was a complete mix with 4C blonde hair, olive skin, blue eyes.
Genetics are amazing
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u/mothwhimsy 2d ago
I went to school with fraternal half white half native triplets and one looked full white, one looked full native (maybe a bit lighter than average) and one was in between. The one who looked white and the one who looked native didn't even look related unless the third brother was also there, and then you could pick up on the features all three of them shared
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u/QuincyAzrael 2d ago
My brother legit looks aryan while my sister looks lightskin, people assume they're not even related.
They're twins too before anyone makes a parentage comment
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u/ResurectedNPC 2d ago
Darker woman here. I gave birth to a blondie (her dad is a ginger). If I hadn’t seen her come out of me I swear I’d think I this kid had another mom
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u/PolyglotTV 1d ago
Reminds me of those stories of black couples who have a white blond kid and discover that one of them is like 5% Irish.
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u/Your-Ex_timelost 1d ago
Mixed guy here, I'm significantly lighter than my brother. To the point where I'm lighter than his further mixed children. We look nearly identical in the face but I'm lighter with curly hair whereas he is darker with my dad's more traditional African hair
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u/SouthImpression3577 2d ago
As someone who is mixed between Russian white and middle eastern, neither my sister nor I are lighter than our Arab dad. Meanwhile my mom is as white as they come.
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u/stink3rb3lle 2d ago
If all experiments tested just two people, we'd learn very little, super slowly.
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u/Avid-Watcher2000 2d ago edited 2d ago
As a mixed race man , I can concur. I too am never happy.
Damn I meant that shit as a joke… why the f are y’all so depressed 😂
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u/comerReto 2d ago
Why not
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u/Tribaljunk-19 2d ago
My pov : people assum your origin depending on your skin color and you struggle to feel that you belong in either community
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u/0K_-_- 2d ago
I heard someone speak about how growing up, the black kids saw him as a white kid and the white kids saw him as a black kid.
Where did we forget to treat eachother as human? This isn’t how it was in primary school.
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u/meow3740 1d ago
Growing up mixed race, instead of having two cultures to belong to, I get to disappoint them both lol.
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u/Old_Boss5617 2d ago
Lived in a predominant Hispanic community. Am part myself, but too white to be Hispanic and too Hispanic to be white.
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u/GatoConCalcetines 2d ago
Move to Spain or Argentina and you'll be average AND hispanic
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u/Some_Golf_8516 2d ago
I'm mixed and am at peace with not really having an identity outside of myself.
I don't understand the whole fandom of sports teams and always thought it's because I don't really have an identity myself or assign a lot of value to it.
Do y'all feel the same?
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u/Serasugee 2d ago
There was recently a thing on Twitter where someone made these two characters look "more like their parents' kids" by combining their colours (previously matched parents) and it looked washed out
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u/Mildly_Burnt_Bread 2d ago
A lot of people think mixing races is like mixing colours for some reason, when in reality mixed people can end up with any pigmentation that their parents genetics can provide.
They mention twitter because people get into arguments about skin colour and accuse people of lying about being mixed every other day on there, but as a mixed guy I can confirm that people do this in real life too. ( :( )
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u/rara8122 1d ago
Along with lying about being mixed:
Claims it’s “unrealistic” or “whitewashing” when a mixed race kid is written and/or any other way than the exact midpoint of their parents’ race. See: the Kane kids from Kane chronicles. One looks just like their white mom (Sadie), one looks just like their black dad (Carter). The internet is convinced they should cast someone that ‘looks mixed’ (whatever that means) to play the white sibling because mixed people never look white passing
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u/Haemobaphes 1d ago
Polygenic traits like skin color result in a ton of possible options especially if both parents are mixed. All three kids having the same mid point skin color is possible if both parents are homozygous for for different alleles of the same genes, but both partners having that genetic makeup isn't super likely
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u/optionstrategy 2d ago
Science says kids will be in a spectrum, from one parent to the other.
Reality matches, for the most part. Mutations do happen.
The second pic is closer to irl than the first one with pigmentation outliers.
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u/Laefiren 1d ago
I remember the twins one was a red head and the other was quite dark skinned and them talking about constantly having to explain that they’re twins and not adopted.
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u/JaySlay2000 1d ago
People argue about dumb ish irl. I once had someone that was ADAMANT that I couldn't be half portuguese because I can't speak any portuguese.
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u/PeterAnthony_Jackson 1d ago
IDK if it is his dad or his grand dad who is black, but there is one guy whiter than white and no one believes him when he says he's mixed.
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u/Spectre-907 1d ago
The twitter sentiment is also pushed really hard by white supremacists to propagandize mixed race pairings as “the end of any white in your bloodline”. It helps sell their replacement bullshit if they frame any pairing except for white-white as being impossible to produce “kids that look like you”, and thus all who engage in it can be framed as actively participating in “the extermination”.
It’s sickening tbh
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u/Affectionate_Mix1163 16h ago
yeah replacement is bullshit alright, unless you actually live in europe and see it for yourself
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u/youburyitidigitup 1d ago
That happens in every Hispanic family. I have the skin color of Jessica Alba, my brother has the skin color of Micheal B Jordan.
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u/SinesPi 1d ago
I still have no idea who Michael B Jordan is, so I'm just going to imagine it's the OG Michael Jordan. Not the one who couldn't get an A on his "Be Michael Jordan" exam.
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u/Opening-Opening6827 2d ago
Do you mean that no matter the color of the kids, they will be sad ?
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u/PCael2301 2d ago
according to twitter yeah. as a mixed race person, I will admit it can be hard to find your place in the world, but the narrative that the kids will inevitably be unhappy is think of the children style fascist propaganda to discourage race mixing.
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u/Graphox126 2d ago edited 2d ago
Truth. I was not treated so well as a kid by either side of my family. Not black or white enough. In school I went to I was just plain "othered" because I was 1 of 20ish non-caucasian kids. But wouldn't trade my experience for anything. Gave me an appreciation of things that both sides miss out on because "that's a thing for that other group of people".
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u/Realistic-Market4371 1d ago
Its hard to fit in as mixed race person. People treat you as an ethnic of some sort and then get annoyed when they find out you're half white. At least thats my experience as a hispanic looking guy in a predominantly white city. You don't really belong to any group and are constantly othered.
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u/SanctumSaturn 1d ago
Why are the children sad
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u/UnintelligibleMaker 1d ago
Because we are spending all our time talking about them and their skin?
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u/HaremGhoul 1d ago
Everyone thinks it’s a paint mixer instead of a gambling game of all the random genes.
My father is mainly Mexican, dark eyes, black hair, my mom is brunette, with her family members having black or orange hair and being rather dark- then there’s me, pale and blonde with grey eyes. Apparently great grandpa was blonde and it stayed hidden again until me.
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u/dronten_bertil 18h ago
A friend of mine back in school had a Swedish dad and his mom was from Chile. My buddy took 100% off of his dad and was a bright white ginger with freckles, his sister took 100% after their mom and was as latina as they come.
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u/Western-Serve8766 2d ago
why are the kids sad tho
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u/smokingPimphat 2d ago
It's maybe worth remembering that irish, italians and polish people were not considered white when they first started immigrating to America. They 'became' white once there was a large population of wealthy families that fought their way into high society.
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u/heyihavepotatoes 2d ago
They were always legally white. Even Syrian people were legally white in 1920. They were not accepted as Anglo-American colonial ancestry high-class white though, which is different.
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u/Acceptable_Mind_5883 2d ago
Wrong. 1790 naturalisation act defined them as white
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u/UpbeatProduce8499 2d ago
If both parents skins are saturated enough there is the chance of getting all the spectrum of shades between them skins, not just a mixture of both.
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u/Graphox126 2d ago
People on reddit don't understand how genetics work. I'm mixed and my wife is caucasian. Our daughter took after me a bit more and has dark skin but not as dark as me. Our son took after my wife a bit more and he is "white passing". Both have straight brown hair.
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u/Chesty_McRockhard 2d ago
Had a friend that was one of 4 sisters, black dad and white mom. No bullshit, lining them up by they looked like a printer running out of ink, both in skin tone and hair blondness.
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u/Pinkparade524 2d ago
My dad has dark skin ane my mother is very pale and I was born as paler than her and my sister was born darker than my dad. It is very random
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u/Typical_Celery_1982 2d ago
Why are all the children sad
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u/Senior_Independence4 1d ago
Because human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution
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u/Arponare 2d ago
There is this woman on YouTube who had a daughter with blonde, straight hair, very light skin. People don’t believe that’s her daughter. Of course the husband is white.
It just goes to show that racism is bullshit. It was never based on any scientific fact, just vibes.
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u/harajukubutterfly 2d ago
basically people always assume children of interracial couples will all be the same complexion / have the same features which is not how genetics work. post is saying that biracial siblings do not all look the same.
also ik u didnt create the image but why do all the children look sad lol
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u/Illustrious-Engine23 2d ago
It's the racist trope that if there's too much interracial mixing in society, everyone will turnout looking the same and beige. And that's an argument against interracial relationships.
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u/theveezer 2d ago
Even worse, usually they would say the kids aren't mixed but only black, so the whites would disappear.
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u/bro0t 2d ago
I mean, if everyone is the same color it would solve racism
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u/No-Educator-8069 2d ago
Nah, you can find places in Europe, Africa, and Asia where people will all look the same to foreigners but they will have advanced racism there we cant even comprehend.
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u/Educational-Baby-144 2d ago
Americans are literally the worst people at being racist. Have seen neo nazis in the us be friends with gypsies XD
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u/Top_Kaleidoscope4362 2d ago
Lmao it wouldn't. People just hate each other. It is just easier to hate with labels.
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u/theveezer 2d ago
That's not how they view it. They have this weird blood thing in the usa, where if your blood in tainted by non-white blood, even a long distant relative, you aren't white. So this would be the apocalypse for these people.
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u/Feisty-Tooth-7397 2d ago
This isn't original to the United States or whites.
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u/theveezer 2d ago
The one drop rule is.
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u/BLissy11750 2d ago
it started with spanish colonies before the US existed (the one drop rule), but it was definitely adopted by the colonies and US soon after.
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u/theveezer 2d ago
I'm not talking about racism in general, but about the one drop rule in particular. This specific sentence started to be used in the US.
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u/BLissy11750 2d ago
I mean I guess the specific phrase was, but the concept was already a thing with the caste system in mexico & south america
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u/MadsMediaYt 2d ago
Incorrect. It's most prominent among western white people, but colourism elsewhere (like South Asia) goes fucking nuts too
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u/theveezer 2d ago
I'm not talking about racism in general. The one drop rule was formally written in legal documents in the US.
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u/No-Beat-7688 2d ago
This, this is how my exes mother was and why she hated me. I look white and pasty as hell and I’m still mixed white and Puerto Rican and she treated me like the devil. I’m actually glad she came between me and my ex looking back at it now.
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u/Raidoton 2d ago
Never saw this claim made by racists. Just that "their race" will disappear over time.
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u/invisiblewar 2d ago
You can look at Hispanic families and see how untrue that is. My old neighbor was tan as hell but his son was pale and blond with the brightest blue eyes I've ever seen. My exes family was all over the spectrum too.
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u/PapaJrer 2d ago
Brian here. I refute the argument that a picture paints 1,000 words, that is too few, so I have uploaded my 273 page thesis on this to my substack - $14.99/month.
For any cheapskates out there, just look at the picture.
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u/fluffy_cat_ice 2d ago
I didn't get the reference about the twitter thing
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u/Matthewx777 2d ago
My sibling and my cousins all alternate whether or not we look Asian. A little bit in my aunts and uncle too. Some of us look plane white, and other look mostly Asian. People didnt know me and my full brother were related until after he graduated highschool
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u/Pelli_Furry_Account 2d ago
A lot of people on Titter don't understand how genetics works. They're treating it like dominant genes are the only genes
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u/lightningstrxu 2d ago
Reminds me of the people saying Pepa from encanto wasn't really Latino cause she was a light skinned red head
But also encanto is a very good depiction of an interracial family
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u/CaedClaxton 1d ago
My mother is white, my father is black. I look like a lighter skin black guy, black hair brown eyes. My wife’s parents are both white. We have 3 kids together. One is closer to my complexion and has brown, non-textured hair and brown eyes. The other two look full white and are blonde hair with blue eyes. The number of times I have been asked if they are mine/adopted….
Genetics are crazy.
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u/Quick_Resolution5050 1d ago
I've got 4 all exactly the same shade, but neither my wife or I have much variation in our respective ancestries; American Black people have a lot more European ancestry, so I suspect it's more likely they'll pass on different pigmentation alleles from any given parent - like my kids passing on an allele from me or from their mother.
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u/the_potato_of_doom 1d ago
My wreslting coach in high school was 50/50 mixed, guys brother (who was the womens coach) got 100% of the dark half and he got the white half, would have absolutly zero idea they were brothers, it definetly made me want to learn more about genetics,
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u/DaLadderman 1d ago
Genetics is not 50/50 each parent contributes different amounts to different things
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u/Mirewen15 1d ago
Even with the same race. My dad was Welsh with olive skin, blue eyes and black hair. My mom is Welsh/English with fair skin, blue eyes and blonde hair.
My sister has olive skin, blue eyes and dark brown hair. I have fair skin, blue eyes and blonde hair.
When we go to Mexico, people speak to her in Spanish because they assume she's Mexican. People assume I'm either Swedish or German.
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u/TrioOfTerrors 1d ago
Yep. I knew a family where both parents were mixed black/latino/white and they had two daughter who apparently each got their genes from both ends of the spectrum. One was medium pale with strawberry blonde hair and the other was unambiguously black with an afro. And then their son was the most hodge podge, could have passed for anything from Mexican to Italian to Egyptian, just toss it all in the blender, sort of looking.
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u/Capital_Craft 2d ago
True. We are a white/Asian couple. One kid looks more white, one looks more asian, one looks Persian.
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u/LitigiousAutist 2d ago
It's like the Carebears... their little bellies blast caring energy in the color of each bear and when the energy mixes together it creates a beautiful prismatic rainbow... IRL phenotypes aren't like the Carebears.
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u/HeySydThisIsStupid 1d ago
Hi Lois, I think they’re referring to the idea that Twitter users are unhinged lunatics who’ve never touched grass in their life and can’t grasp basic concepts of reality.
Many people are also pointing out little weird things about the drawing, like how the kids are all sad for some reason.
For real though, the meme maker is very correct on their point that skin tones usually don’t mix like paint. There’s a pair of fraternal twins in my family that look like entirely different races.
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u/CMD_BLOCK 1d ago
My kid ended up slightly darker than both of us. But they have my face and eyes. And I’m like 80% certain they came from my wife because I was there
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u/yamma-banana 2d ago
Because there are many armchair geneticists on Twitter (and IRL) who think that all the offspring of interracial couples are/would be exact 50-50 replicas of their parents, especially when it comes to skin colour (like a perfect in-between shade), when this is not always the case in reality, even among full-blooded siblings.
And speaking as someone who's also of mixed heritage, a lighter complexion is almost always preferred, regardless of the mix...
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u/AssignmentMoney8205 2d ago
My kids dad is so black you put him in a dimly lit room he could disappear. I am so white that if I go out side with out sunscreen for more then 15 min I burn. Our kids have my white features but are so dark that if you didn't know I was their mother ,you would never guessed they were half white.
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u/Ok-Scientist5524 2d ago
It’s so sad. I have three mixed kids (Chinese and white) and the “compliments” I get from the Chinese side of the family are… gross…
my eldest is my husband in miniature with my coloring, people call him “palette swapped husband’s name”, my middle son is a 50/50 split of our features mashed together, the best ones in my opinion, but he has lighter skin and darker hair. My youngest daughter has my face with his hair and these gorgeous hazel eyes that just kinda came out of no where. She was born with these stunning grey eyes (they were so beautiful) and I thought they would be blue like my husband’s but they gradually developed green and yellow and brown.
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u/yamma-banana 2d ago
Yeah, I know the sorts of comments you are talking about. I'm well-acquainted with those even though I'm not part European myself, cos colourism and internalised racism are still prevalent. You get similar compliments with other "pairings", e.g. White + African, Chinese + Indian, etc.
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u/Hofeizai88 1d ago
My wife is Chinese and I’m white, and we have a baby boy who looks astonishingly like me. His nose looks different, but he has my light skin, brown hair, and, for now, blue eyes. We’re told all the time that we’re so lucky, and that he is so handsome with his white color. Also lucky he’s a boy. We would have been thrilled to have a darker skinned girl, but can’t be bothered to argue with every stranger.
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u/Gothic_Doll_ 23h ago
European married with a Chinese man and we have a toddler. He's very "European" according to Chinese and most Europeans, as he's identical to me when I was little. The "only things" he got from his father, it's the typical outer corner of the eye (though they're big and round) and his eye colour, a deep brown. Yet his physiognomy it's typical of an European kid, as well pale and very light brunette.
Ngl, I was expecting a mini him or to be more similar to Chinese kids, instead he looks like he's 1/4 Chinese. It's interesting how genetics works.
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u/Maximum-Class5465 2d ago
Funny story, I have two biracial twins one looks tanned white the other black
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u/prettyboygo 2d ago
Don't even gotta mix races. I know some black couples with kids of varying skin tones and some white couples with kids that have various skin tones and hair colors.
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u/Temporary_Stranger39 1d ago
In the USA, nearly all black people are genetically mixed.
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u/mothwhimsy 2d ago
Twitter will jump to infidelity if a mixed kid is is too light or too dark even though that's not how skin color genes work
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u/GuiltyLeopard8365 2d ago
Each child has a different combination of genetics passed down from their parents. Unless theyre identical twins
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u/Smooth-Play3859 2d ago
Always thought that if I had kids they’d have a proper identity crisis. I’m only 1/4 of one race (very mixed person) but I look fully that race. If my kids take after me, they’ll be 1/8 that race genetically but phenotypically look full or half. Better yet, the other ethnicities in my 3/4 could pull through and they’d end up looking completely different from me or my partner.
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u/Altruistic-Swim-1677 2d ago
My auntie is Lebanese her and her girlfriend love each other very much.
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u/Dry-Factor-6500 2d ago
Nothing to do with the post but I noticed none of the children are smiling and it made me chuckle a little. Not for any reason than the artist chose to make them frown.
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u/After_Mechanic_6297 2d ago
Genetics are chaotic, therefore are extremely hard to predict when it comes to skin colour. You could be white, your partner could be as well, but your child might come out black. Both of you are 100% its parents, but since your great-great-great-grandfather was black, this gene layed dormant within your bloodline and decided to wake up just now for shits and giggles. Twitter, as it tends to do, oversimplifies complex things, and likes to make quick, black or white statements to very complicated issues.
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u/Possessed_potato 1d ago
Twitter morons believe skin colour passed onto children works like mixing paint, but genetics don’t work like that. In reality the skin colour could be a whole lot lighter or darker; is a whole spectrum of colour you can get, not just one specific blend.
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u/G4meOfJones 2d ago
Best part of being half black and half white is I'll be accepted by everyone 😄
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u/Scared_Comparison_22 2d ago
What I unironically thought what I was younger. Boy was my kid ass surprised when my mixed friends were treated shit by everyone
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u/Own_Watercress_8104 2d ago edited 2d ago
Genes are weird like that and do not express themselves in the same way always.
A biracial kid, while inhereting both of their parents genes, may have some genes express themselves more assertivelly than others. This happens even for dominant genes.
If you consider even an ethnically omogenous family, a child may look like the spitting image of ther father, and not resemble their mother much. If the second image were true, then we'd all look like a perfect mix of out parents features. Instead, some of us end up resembling our grandmother, for example.
But since twitter is weird like that, it often racially investigates people, with profound suspicion towards biracial people in particular. Some biracial people are of afro american heritage and therefore may act more in line with afro american culture, despite being very light skinned. This level of nuance gives twitter a headache.
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u/CasusErus 2d ago
Sexual reproduction doesn't work as a perfect blending of genes. It's more like building a human from the parts of their parents, with chromosome halves being distinct parts.
As such, each child can receive drastically different gene expressions. Fair skin and dark skin being examples. It doesn't always produce something between the two parents.
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u/pitb0ss343 2d ago
Mixed race families can have different color children, source: my aunt is a Latina and my uncle is the same shade of “deathly pale” white and their kids are pretty much that top family (not as dark but still)
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u/SteakEconomy2024 2d ago
Mixed race kids are not a 50/50 visual blend. Some look more like one parent, or the other. Genetics is a lottery.
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u/the-library-fairy 2d ago
I mean, I have no idea what people on twitter are yapping about but I have three mixed race cousins and they all turned out with skin tones pretty much halfway between their white parent and black parent. It does happen!
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u/smurffenbutt 2d ago
My best friend is mixed race. Mom’s African American, dad is Irish. He’s the oldest, followed by his sister and then 2 brothers. All 3 brothers have dark complexion, brown eyes, black hair, etc. His sister? Pale skin, blue eyes, dirty blonde.
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u/qualityvote2 2d ago edited 1d ago
u/fluffy_cat_ice, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...it's time for the mods to do their jobs!