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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son had blond hair as a young kid.   It turned light brown by about 3 years old.   In the winter his skin is as white as mine (German/Scottish heritage).   In the summer, with a dark tan, he looks much more like his father, who is North African.   His hair is a mix of sub-saharan African tight curls and my straight hair.    He's 10.

[b]Oddly, all my white friends and acquaintances think he looks 100% white. [/b][b]My non-white friends and acquaintances of any background immediately think he's biracial.   [/b] His Japanese day care worker was the first to ask me if he was "mixed."    And that's back when he had blond hair.   [/quote]

THIS.  My 2-year-old half Indian/half Scandinavian DD has this happen to her all the time.  My white friends are convinced she looks completely white, but the minute any Indian/Latina/Arab woman sees her, they start probing about my family... because, I later realized, they know she's of mixed race and they all think that maybe my husband is from their country.

The weird, and potentially disturbing thing, about all this is that, I'm really the same way, as I'm white and she looks white to me. [b]When I look at her, I really can't see her as anything other than white. I try, and I still don't see it.[/b] [/quote]

I'm that PP and same here.   Although as my son hits tweens and maybe puberty soon, I think he's going to end up looking more North African.   I'm starting to see a bit of that now.  [/quote]

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