Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Many colors in a family

There's an article going viral about a set of multi-racial twins.

They're not identical twins, so yeah, they'll look different, but this time, they look really different.

The twins are of Anglo and Jamaican ancestry. One twin looks like your typical Anglo girl with the white skin and brown stringy hair. The other twin has brown skin and weavy hair.


(learn more at
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/these-twins-can-teach-us-a-lot-about-racial-identity/ar-BBibCwv?ocid=iehp



Here is my facebook comment




Yes, my comments are true!


Me, I have a Mexican father whose mother is of Native Mexican ancestry (Zapotec, Toltec), whereas his father is of Spanish ancestry. My father has more Native Mexican features, whereas his siblings are lighter skinned!

My mother is of Puerto Rican (with native and Spanish in it), Portuguese, and German ancestry. Her skin is white and has thick hair!


Now, look at my extended family.

One of my mother's brothers married a Native Hawaiian woman. Some of the kids look mostly Native Hawaiian, some look mostly Latino, another looks mostly white!  

Another of my mother's brothers married a Puerto Rican woman, so most of the kids looked Latino, but one looked totally "white" as in German "white", NOT Spanish/Portuguese "white".


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Now back to my inner circle. My brother married a Korean woman. One of their daughters looks mostly Korean, others look more Spanish-Mexican.

All in the same family!  :)

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This is common in Hawaii, whereas there is a lot of inter-racial marriages going on.

I know this one family in my childhood hood (Lanakila Housing), where the children are of Samoan/Hawaiian/Puerto Rican ancestry and they all look so different that the only reason why I knew they were siblings is because I'm from the same neighborhood.  Some of my classmates from different neighborhoods didn't even believe me when I told them they were all siblings. But it's true!

Which is also why sometimes I see part-Asian, part-European kids who look mostly Asian and with Asian last names, and I'm thinking "something about them shows they might part-white". Then I see the one grandparent is totally of European ancestry ............. that explains it! 


That's why I say you never know the entire racial background of who you are talking to! You might be saying a racial joke thinking "nobody of this race is around", but they might be, they just be only 10% of that race! Either that, or they have cousins of the other race!

As Rodney King said "Can't we all just get along?"