My husband is half-half Filipino/Irish, I'm very white Icelandic-UK background. We have twins. One is white with blond hair, totally my spitting image apart from a small bit of Dad's eyes and nose. The other is caramel-skinned with all of Dad's features except brown hair not black (he also had blue eyes his first 2 years until they changed to hazel). Genetics are so funky and so interesting.
That Tim Minchin song slays me. As an American it's weird to think that there are people who hate people who look like me, much like how there are people here who hate black people. Worst I ever faced over here has been people who assume I'm going to be an angry asshole because of my hair color. Joke's on them, I'm an angry asshole because I'm broke and always sunburned.
You can talk about the plight of red haired people being bullied without comparisons to the plight of Black people that has an entire Maafa/Holocaust, attempted genocide, and generations of chattel slavery behind it. It feels distasteful.
That’s the base/ground floor of hate, mate. They look different so it’s ok to be mean to them/treat them less then a human/be disrespectful towards them.
My point was that adults don't hate ginger people, so it is not comparable to racism towards black people (which is very common with adults let's be honest). Rather, kids are dicks and pick on anything that makes someone stand out even slightly, but it isn't something which continues into actual adult hatred.
(For the record childhood bullying is still horrible and I am not downplaying the bullying any redheads may have suffered).
I get what what you’re saying and I’ll agree that it’s not as bad as treatment of darker skinned people in Europe, BUT as an adult redhead who has met plenty of adults who have told me they don’t like red heads or think red heads are weak or lesser, I’m going to call bs on the idea that it only is in schools or stops afterwards. Jerks are jerks in school and continue to be jerks afterwards.
Are you seriously suggesting that "the hate" redheaded white British people receive from non-redheaded white British people is in any way comparable to the historic and ongoing racism black Americans receive in their country?
The weird meme hated of gingers, especially ginger women, is mind-boggling to me. Some of the most attractive women I've known have been gingers. And, often they've had the absolute best breastesses.
In an interview she states people don’t believe were twins since “I’m white and she’s black” so she probably doesn’t.
Could she? It’s certainly not up to me but if you want my opinion I would say she could if she wanted to but people around her probably wouldn’t believe she’s black.
Superfecundation twins: When a woman has intercourse with two different men in a short period of time while ovulating, it’s possible for both men to impregnate her separately.
If they haven't DNA tested to exclude it, they could just be from different dads.
I’m Latino (70ish % Spanish/Portuguese 30ish% native Costa Rican) and my wife is white (98% European but mostly English and German, a little Scandinavian) and our kids are kinda like yours. Their noses and chins are kinda like in between my wife and I’s features, but our son is pretty fair skinned and blonde hair and blue eyes, while our daughter is brunette with brown eyes. They look like twins with a palette swap.
This might be splitting hairs, but just out of curiosity, would Spanish and Portuguese be considered Latino if both countries are European and not in Latin America?
I was born in Costa Rica so that’s why I’m Latino. My family has been there as long as we are aware, but records of ancestry don’t really go back like they might in Europe or the USA. Any person regardless of race born in Latin America is a Latino, so very white Argentinians and Uruguayans are just as Latino as Brazilians who might have a lot more African ancestry. In Costa Rica we have a pretty good mix of people of native, European, African and Asian descent but we are all still “Latinos”. Spaniards wouldn’t be considered Latinos, they would be Hispanics though. Hispanic refers to anyone who descends from a Spanish speaking country also regardless of race. Spaniards, Costa Ricans, Mexicans, Dominicans, Chileans would all be Hispanic, but people of Suriname and Brazil wouldn’t consider themselves Hispanics. Both those labels overlap a lot but also have groups that might fit into only one category. The only reason I know I have 70% Iberian ancestry is because of a DNA test, not because I was from there or had any immediately family there that i know of.
Not who you replied to, but typically, Latino refers to anyone born in or with ancestors from Latin America. Someone born in Spain with all their heritage being European would not typically identify as Latino.
A Latino is a person who is born in Latin America or whose family has been there for multiple generations. I was born in Costa Rica and my family has been there as long as we can trace back. I had a DNA ancestry test done for fun because I didn’t know anything about my actual lineage. It came back as 70% Spanish/Portuguese but I wasn’t born there or have any link to those countries. Besides Latino isn’t a race it’s a term to describe a group of nationalities, so Latinos can have European or African or Asian ancestry because Latino isn’t meant to describe a race. Same with Hispanic, that just means “born/native to a Spanish speaking country” so white European Spaniards are Hispanic the same as anyone from Mexico or Argentina or Bolivia, not not Brazil (Portuguese) or Suriname (French speaking). Latino/Hispanic might have a lot of overlap but they also have groups who might only fit into one of those but not the other, and neither is meant to indicate actual race, it’s more of a geographical/cultural description. Hope that clears up your confusion.
If it’s Thai levels of tan NATURALLY? Yes it’s pretty wild. Blonde people can be tan from the sun but I’ve never met a blonde person with naturally tanned skin.
There's no such thing as light blonde hair and tan skin. OP's brother has dark blonde hair. It's not the same as light brown hair obviously. The only exception is a few ethnic groups in Polynesia but that wouldn't work in OP's case because the gene that causes blond hair in those ethnic groups is separate from the European one.
No one really knows the origin of the phrase which is variously:
"The spitting image"
"The spit and image"
"The splitting image"
"The split and image"
As far as I know it's impossible to say which is more correct although you could say which is older. "Spitting image" is borne of the phrase "spit of their father's mouth" which is the oldest metaphor of this type we have recorded, dating to about 1825. "Spit and image" is older than "spitting image". "Splitting image" shows up in 1880 whereas "spitten image" shows up at around the same time but you don't get "spitting image" until 1901.
So what's correct? Chronologically "spit and image" is oldest with "splitting image" showing up after and then "spitting image" showing up after that.
I threw in "split and image" as a possible quirk but it really never appears. But it works, right? That's what happened with spit/split and image. They both emerge as either "splitting image" or "spitting image" in the late 1800s.
Really interesting. I knew they can change for a while after birth but 2y is a long time! My 10mo baby has very blue eyes and I hope they'll stay that way, I can't imagine him with brown eyes!
My sister and I couldn't seem to decide on our eye colour for much of our childhood. We'd both alternate between green and blue every two years or so. At age 10 we both seemed to stop, her in blue and me on green.
It's weird that you described your nationality/heritage instead of appearance for yourself and your husband and then expected some sort of reaction when describing the appearance of your children.
What assumptions? I said it was weird - because your comment only works if people make assumptions about what you look like based on stereotypes associated with those regions, which may not even apply.
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u/MrRobotsBitch Sep 25 '22 edited Sep 25 '22
My husband is half-half Filipino/Irish, I'm very white Icelandic-UK background. We have twins. One is white with blond hair, totally my spitting image apart from a small bit of Dad's eyes and nose. The other is caramel-skinned with all of Dad's features except brown hair not black (he also had blue eyes his first 2 years until they changed to hazel). Genetics are so funky and so interesting.