Being mixed race

[CCC]

Those are some pretty stong genes for her to be only 1/4 Chinese, and for it to show up in her eldest son being only 1/8....

[MC anunnaki]

I always thought princess Alexandra was half-Chinese. She looks very Asian to me, it's probably the eyes that do the trick.

[jam]

Yes, she appear Asian, but if you look carefully, you can See her mothers features in her. I don't have an older pic of her mother, unfortunately, because it was more evident before.
Too bad I don't have a pic of her sisters, because her sisters look much more European than her.

[alaina]

gelaye said:

me being one of them what are your views on how mixed race people should be racially classified..........are they just 'biracial' or do you classify them according to which race they lean towards looking the most (eg halle berry is classed as black by many - or african american, although she is half white and was brought up by her anglo-saxon mother while many mixed race people 'escape' :S looking african and people call them white or mediteranean. the same is true for people like myself, who are biracial but have turned out looking like another completely unrelated race to what their actual admixture is (my case East Asian - from Nordic Aethiopid mix)...............

People are always going to classify you based on looks...that's a given. As for personal identification, mixed people should (and do!) feel free; and I don't know who would care about someone else's self-identification, unless they are a freak.

[osirica]

I have relatives that come out looking different than their parents, one relative is a lightskinned (not passibly so) Black man whose wife is a very dark skinned african looking black woman. Her eyes (like many West Africans) are slanted and their children come out looking like pure Filipinos. Filipino women have mistook the kids for being Filipino frequently. This doesnt happen just with "white" admixture.

[quartermetis]

jam said:

The mother isn't half/half, more like 3/4 Caucasian.
Only her colour and eyes look Asian.
I couldn't find any pictures of her (the mothers) mother, but she look like her a lot (she's Austrian.) Also, her sisters look even less Asian.

Here's a more detailed pic.


Hey, I found a pic of her parents:


The man to the right, her father, is half English half Chinese!

Here she is again, looking yellow

Here's a couple of small pics of her sisters:

[jam]

That shows it quite well, even if the pictures aren't too detailed.

[aroundtheworld]

osirica said:

I have relatives that come out looking different than their parents, one relative is a lightskinned (not passibly so) Black man whose wife is a very dark skinned african looking black woman. Her eyes (like many West Africans) are slanted and their children come out looking like pure Filipinos. Filipino women have mistook the kids for being Filipino frequently. This doesnt happen just with "white" admixture.

I saw this once at a mall. A light-skinned black man with fine hair had a dark black(negroid) wife with exotic features and the children had long wavy hair and looks polynesian. I was staring in awe and they were friendly and the man said I looked like I could have been the mother more than his wife and she agreed. They looked a lot like me. Wierd.

[Polako]

I have yet to see a Caucasoid mix with an East Asian or sub-Saharan African to produce more Caucasoid looking kiddies.

That never happens as far a I'm aware. If it does it's a freak occurance.

However, I know for a fact that Europeans who are 1/4 East Asian often look fully Caucasoid.

These people I've come across are the result of Germanic/Japanese and Germanic/Indonesian mixes.

[aroundtheworld]

polako said:

I have yet to see a Caucasoid mix with an East Asian or sub-Saharan African to produce more Caucasoid looking kiddies.

That never happens as far a I'm aware. If it does it's a freak occurance.

However, I know for a fact that Europeans who are 1/4 East Asian often look fully Caucasoid.

These people I've come across are the result of Germanic/Japanese and Germanic/Indonesian mixes.

I've seen it a few times but only due to the combination:

A black lady at my old church(medium colour) had some traces of caucasoid ancestry. her father had green/hazel eyes and reddish hair. Her husband, a white man had dark hair and look that is nor Nordid at all. He could pass for "Hispanic".

Ok, they have 2 daughters. Both of the daughters have frosty blonde hair and blue eyes and both parents have brown eyes/dark hair.

the little girls have white skin-whiter than the father's but you can tell it's their chldren but they appear French with the phenotype of Charlize Theron with curly hair.

[ivyleak]

aroundtheworld said:

polako said:

I have yet to see a Caucasoid mix with an East Asian or sub-Saharan African to produce more Caucasoid looking kiddies.

That never happens as far a I'm aware. If it does it's a freak occurance.

However, I know for a fact that Europeans who are 1/4 East Asian often look fully Caucasoid.

These people I've come across are the result of Germanic/Japanese and Germanic/Indonesian mixes.

I've seen it a few times but only due to the combination:

A black lady at my old church(medium colour) had some traces of caucasoid ancestry. her father had green/hazel eyes and reddish hair. Her husband, a white man had dark hair and look that is nor Nordid at all. He could pass for "Hispanic".

Ok, they have 2 daughters. Both of the daughters have frosty blonde hair and blue eyes and both parents have brown eyes/dark hair.

the little girls have white skin-whiter than the father's but you can tell it's their chldren but they appear French with the phenotype of Charlize Theron with curly hair.

That is interesting because I always thought Charlize Theron had something African in her phenotype. Europeans don't really look like her (except for her coloring of course).

In addition I have met a couple of biracial women who looked like mocha Charlize Therons.

[tonynatuzzi]

Charlize doesen't look like she shows any partial African ancestry to me atleast in my opinion.

[ivyleak]

huzar said:

anunnaki said:

Also, since Caucasoids seem to have the most recessive looks, being classified as white if you're mixed race will be pretty hard, unless your non-Caucasoid admixture is rather old or in itself mixed to begin with.

Well, caucasid genes aren't so recessive afterall. Many mulattos white/black = 50-50% share a rather light skin, and facial traits notably different from pure blacks. In some cases, caucasid facial traits are more dominant

Yes, I've noticed this too. Yet, there is some notion that all European traits are recessive and in need of protection.

[ivyleak]

tonynatuzzi said:

Charlize doesen't look like she shows any partial African ancestry to me atleast in my opinion.

I don't really detect it either. But somehow many biracial (European/African) mixes end up looking something or exactly like her. It is very subtle, but I believe all her features are slightly influenced by SSAfrican. It lends a smooth exotic quality to her face that has probably helped her to stand out from the average blond Hollywood American girl.

[tonynatuzzi]

Are you just saying that because she was born in South Africa and you automatically assume she must have some African ancestry just because she happens to be born in a predominantly Black country.If she was born in Belgium for example would you still be saying the same thing.