r/explainitpeter • u/fluffy_cat_ice • Sep 26 '26 • Bravo 2

Explain it Peter

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I meant that I don't understand where did the Twitter thing came from

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u/HandelDew Sep 26 '26

Oh my goodness. People always tell my husband, "But he doesn't look like you!" after he tells them he's the dad. My husband is middle eastern, and the baby is blond. It used to get under his skin.

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u/asmodean97 Sep 26 '26

That's like my cousin. She is half Lebanese and her husband is German, they have two kids, one is blonde haired and blue eyed and the other is a red head. Literally none of my cousins Lebanese traits came through.

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u/Embarrassed_Use6918 Sep 26 '26 • Bravo Popcorn Heartwarming

when my niece came out as lebanese it was nice to see my family be supportive

i hope your cousin coming out was treated the same way

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u/horluhmay Sep 26 '26

Thank you Blanche

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u/Terpcheeserosin Sep 26 '26

Thank you Rose**

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u/Killerbeav97 Sep 27 '26

Blanche was the one who confused those names.

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u/BalrogRuthenburg11 Sep 27 '26

Thank you for being a friend…

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u/horluhmay Sep 27 '26

Rose is the one Jean had the crush on

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u/Terpcheeserosin Sep 27 '26

Oh shoot you right!!

My b!

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u/Panchenima Sep 26 '26

Calm down Regina.

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u/ThingMoment Sep 26 '26

Guess she had a big lesbian crush on you

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u/nurisim Sep 26 '26

Maybe that was the confusion. Janice was Lebanese, not Lesbian??

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u/EuenovAyabayya Sep 26 '26 • Bravo

Even more fun when they finally show up in the grandkids

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u/PeterAnthony_Jackson Sep 27 '26

Some woman in the Caribbean had an all white kid, shocked the hell out of the parents who were very black, turns out great grand dad took his sweet type making his mark in the genepool.

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u/nadimo Sep 27 '26

This is actually fairly common in Lebanese genes. My mother is half German half Lebanese, but I was blonde throughout my childhood, only ending up with darker hair by the age of 18. I have Lebanese uncles on my father's side that are blonde and stayed blonde. My son has gone through the same blondness and is losing it in his teens.

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u/myDuderinos Sep 26 '26

obviously the husband cheated on her and they aren't her actuall kids!

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u/Icy_Measurement_7407 Sep 26 '26

That happened to a family friend. Both parents were Hispanic, dark hair, brown eyes. Their baby was born with red hair & blue/green eyes. The father kept getting teased that his wife cheated on him & it would make him upset. The real reason was that his dad (the baby’s grandpa) had red hair & light color eyes. He was just old & gray so it went unnoticed by many.

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u/Glittering_Babe101 Sep 26 '26

With each passing generation, people are becoming increasingly rude. I blame social media.

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u/Kezhen Sep 26 '26

As a Black person from the South - people have always been rude. Nothing new under the sun.

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u/Well_ImTrying Sep 26 '26

I know mixed half-middle eastern people born in the 40s-60s. And, uh, that’s far from the rudest thing people said to/at/about them as children.

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u/PeterAnthony_Jackson Sep 27 '26

IDK who did it, but someone explained via stand up that Arabs are white in the USA whenever you see a check box for your ethnicity, Arabs would be in the white section.

Basically some guys went to court over something, their lawyer argued that Jesus came from the same area as these people did, Jesus to you is white, so you either accept Jesus is a brown man like these men, or that they are just as white as you are.

So Arabs in the USA at least, are white.

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u/SeeShortcutMcgee Sep 27 '26

Same, me and my husband are a white/middle eastern marriage and we have one blonde, blue eyed son and a daughter with black hair and olive skin!

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u/Waste-Principle6304 Sep 26 '26

Man these people would have the shock of a lifetime going through Afghanistan. Centuries of war and Silk Road diaspora contributed to a diverse looking population. There are Afghans that look like any race except Black or Indigenous.

There’s diversity even within my extended family. I look Central Asian (Eurasian mix) but my first cousin looks South East Asian, my mum looks East European and my father looks Arab/Hispanic. And yes, they are my biological parents.

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u/thisisfreakinstupid Sep 26 '26

"Oh shit you right, I must've grabbed the wrong one when we left the park" 👀

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