Mixed race children.

[MMM]

Although I don't feel 100% comfortable with the premise of the original post, thank you for sharing Motoki's pic, Nyororin. He is a handsome little dude.

I taught a high school boy who had a Caucasian mother (American) and Korean father. To me he looked like a black-haired American boy, but his mother told me that before he hit puberty he looked 100% Korean, and most people were surprised when they found out he had an American mother. She said he was unrecognizable from his youngest pictures, and from the age of 12-15 his face transformed remarkably as he grew. I don't know if this phenomenon is common or not.

[cridgit001]

Hmm, interesting, and I can't believe that I forgot about my own best friend. He is half indian(India) and half caucasian and in his photos as a kid he was really white but when he hit puberty he got darker. Also, some how he has super skin as he doesn't get bit by mosquitoes, doesn't bruise, doesn't get cold, and doesn't get sun burned(we rafted down a river for 8 hours and he didn't have any sun screen on, he browned a tad, and I mean only a tad).

I didn't mean for my question to sound shady or anything. Apologies if it did.

[MMM]

Doesn't sound shady to me. It's a sensitive topic, but I think you responded perfectly appropriately. That is interesting that your friend's skin changed tone at puberty.

[yuko81]

http://tamyu.net/wp-content/uploads/...0/sany0483.jpg
cute baby!
wow...he look same same mr mod clairbear

[Kayci]

Originally Posted by Nyororin

There is no "rule" when it comes to which traits will be stronger other than the general rule that "darker" coloration is usually the dominant gene. Most mixed kids I have seen have black hair, brown eyes, and more Asian features. My son has the same color of hair as I do, but brown eyes while I have hazel. His coloring falls between mine and his father`s.

If I can sound like an idiot for one moment;

Your son looks SO much like a male version of my friend it's scary. she makes that EXACT facial expression, only most likely with different emotions.
He's adorable, but I'm the crazy person who loves all kids so...>_>

[Nyororin]

Originally Posted by Tenchu

Of course, Nyororins *word for smallest member of family* looks very Asian. What is the bet you yourself have black hair or very dark brown, Nyororin?

Yes, I do have dark brown hair...

However, my son pretty much always ends up being the LEAST Asian looking out of any group of mixed kids we encounter - so I definitely wouldn`t say he is a good example of looking very Asian.
In most situations, no one guesses that he is mixed at all - always assuming that his father is also Caucasian.

[Ronin4hire]

Originally Posted by Tenchu

I don't really care much about race anymore, anyway. I mean, I was never racist, but sometimes you wonder if you arn't destroying something grander than yourself when breeding with a different race, because both races would eventually die out if the trend continues. But I figured that is the way of evolution and of life; all things are doomed to die or change, anyway. So I am gunna make a whole bunch of mongrel kids in my life!

Just to put your mind at ease. Race is nothing but a social construct. It has no biological basis.

Breeding outside your own race would not result in any lack of "purity" as you imply.

[PhDP]

Originally Posted by Ronin4hire

Race is nothing but a social construct. It has no biological basis.

Breeding outside your own race would not result in any lack of "purity" as you imply.

Your first point is, in my opinion, true, but not all scientists would agree. In truth, words such as "race" and "ethnic group" are quite ambiguous in the first place. But it is certainly true that "blacks" and "white" are social construct and have little to do with race.

The second point is wrong, if you mate with someone of another ethnic group, your kid will be less pure. If you want purity, mate with your sister/brother/cousin. Of course, your child is much more likely to be disabled. In genetics "pure" and "weak" are synonyms. We even have a word; heterosis (or hybrid vigor) to explain why kids of genetically-distant individuals are stronger.

[burkhartdesu]

As bad as this analogy is, when dogs are 'mixed breeds' they are genetically superior to pure-breeds because they are less susceptible to disease...


So who's to say what's pure? This thread is ridiculous.

[Nyororin]

Originally Posted by burkhartdesu

As bad as this analogy is, when dogs are 'mixed breeds' they are genetically superior to pure-breeds because they are less susceptible to disease...

It certainly didn`t make things worse in our case. Not too many children around who were born <1lb... Let alone actually be normal enough to walk, talk, and attend school.

So who's to say what's pure? This thread is ridiculous.

Even though I can`t say the original idea for the thread was all that great, I don`t think the intent was to talk about racial purity or the lack of it.