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Anonymous wrote:I had a neighbor who was pale skinned, blond hair, blue eyed. Father was japenese and mom was American. Her daughter (whose dad was American) looked far more mixed.

Genes are funny.

What do you mean by "American"? I am ethnically Chinese and 100% "American." American does NOT equal white.

So many people trying to start arguments on this thread instead of sticking to the original question!

Anonymous wrote:I had a neighbor who was pale skinned, blond hair, blue eyed. Father was japenese and mom was American. Her daughter (whose dad was American) looked far more mixed.

Genes are funny.

What do you mean by "American"? I am ethnically Chinese and 100% "American." American does NOT equal white.

I had a neighbor who was pale skinned, blond hair, blue eyed. Father was japenese and mom was American. Her daughter (whose dad was American) looked far more mixed.

Genes are funny.

Anonymous wrote:Not for me. I got my mom's Irish skin . dad is Palestinian.

If this is the person I'm thinking of, yes, you look very Irish!

One child, DD has gotten to look more like me as she has aged. I'm South Asia. My son is still very fair. If you look at him when he is next to DH, he doesn't look completely white anymore but when apart, more white than dark. DC has lighter hair with her dark complexion but DS has super dark hair and lighter complexion. Both were completely pink/white when little. I've been mistaken for the nanny when they were tiny.

Anonymous wrote:If you wanted a darker baby maybe you should have slept with a black man. Amazing how people are so obsessed with color.

Yawn. Nice try though.

If you wanted a darker baby maybe you should have slept with a black man. Amazing how people are so obsessed with color.

My Lebanese husband had yellow blond, straight hair as a child. He hit puberty and it turned dark brown and curly. Go figure!

Both parents are white, and I went from having blue eyes and blond hair to having hazel eyes and brown hair. The transition was around 6 years old. Throughout my life my hair has become darker and darker, until the grey started

My kid was born white looking and now looks like she is from India despite being part black, part Jewish, and a host of other things. Her skin, hair, and eyes darkened around three.

I read somewhere that kids feature tend toward their moms as the get older.

So a black dad/white mom, the kid will get lighter, white dad/black mom, the kids will get darker.

DD is birracial, black and white. When she was born she looked arabic or a super light skinned Indian. She had really light skin and thick black wavy hair. We would joke that we got the wrong kid.

Now that she's a toddler her skin has darkened, like cappuccino color, and her hair while still thick is now deep brown (with random copper wire highlights) and is super curly. Facial feature wise aside from my nose she's a carbon copy of her dad when he was her age.

My nephew has a black mom and a white dad. He looks 100% white with blue eyes. His sister looks hispanic, with darker hair and eyes.

It's not true that the darker features are dominant, anyway. http://genetics.thetech.org/ask-a-geneticist/determining-dominant-and-recessive-traits

It sort of makes sense, because otherwise how would the change have occurred as humans moved north? The darker skin would never have disappeared in Northern Europe as completely as it did.

Anonymous wrote:Nope - my mixed race kid looks white. Always has.

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