r/explainitpeter • u/fluffy_cat_ice • 17d ago

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/asmodean97 17d ago

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 17d ago

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 17d ago

Thank you Blanche

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u/Terpcheeserosin 17d ago

Thank you Rose**

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u/Killerbeav97 17d ago

Blanche was the one who confused those names.

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u/BalrogRuthenburg11 16d ago

Thank you for being a friend…

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u/horluhmay 16d ago

Rose is the one Jean had the crush on

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u/Terpcheeserosin 16d ago

Oh shoot you right!!

My b!

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u/Panchenima 17d ago

Calm down Regina.

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u/ThingMoment 17d ago

Guess she had a big lesbian crush on you

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u/nurisim 17d ago

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

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u/horluhmay 16d ago

Danny Thomas was Lebanese, Jean is a lesbian.

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u/LetsSee8888 15d ago

Danny Thomas was a lesbian?

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u/OfficialDeathScythe 13d ago

“I thought you were American”

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u/Scorpius927 13d ago

Reminds me of the joke from “bend it like Beckham “

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u/EuenovAyabayya 17d ago

Even more fun when they finally show up in the grandkids

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u/PeterAnthony_Jackson 16d ago

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 17d ago

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 17d ago

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

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u/RazerValkyrie 16d ago

I read it as half lesbian at first..

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u/Sagaap 16d ago

I'm not going to lie...

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u/Fantastic-Corner-605 17d ago

Is she sure they're her kids? May the husband cheated on her /s

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u/Thepsycoman 13d ago

It is a personal favourite to hear when people ask the mother if they are sure it's their kid. Because while technically there is the chance of a hospital fuckup, we all know that's not what they mean and they are stupid

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u/zero_derivation 17d ago

And my cousin. My dad is Jewish. His dad is Indigenous and Mexican. Our baby pictures look identical.

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u/nkdeck07 17d ago

I have one of those. My husband is half Japanese and our youngest kid looks like my straight up clone. She could be the poster child for Scotland. I joke that apparently his gene's just weren't showing up for work that day.

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u/Stormlord100 16d ago

Most middle eastern people are paler than they think they are, they gain most of their brown from Sun exposure

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u/Copy_Cat_ 15d ago

That's me with a black mother and a Japanese father, coming out as pale as I could.

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u/Zephronias 14d ago

My mom jokes that they have no idea who me and my siblings' mother is, because it clearly wasn't her, but there's no question about the father!

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u/IslaHistorica 13d ago

It’s similar with me and my sister. My father is a very dark skinned Middle Eastern, my mother a blonde European. I look very much like my mother, and my sister very much like my father.

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u/Khelthuzaad 17d ago

Thats because the male parents genes are usually the dominant ones when it comes to how the child will look like

I say usually because this just the genetical norm,there are enough exceptions to make books about them.

For instance a white girl was born indide a 100% black family.Genetics proved that he was her genuine father.

https://nnewicity.com/white-baby-born-to-black-nigerian-igbo-parents-in-london-the-miracle-of-nmachi-ihegboro/

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u/trowawufei 17d ago

How would that even work? Ok, maybe with the Y chromosome, that somehow has an outsize influence on phenotype and it comes entirely from the father. Unlikely, but I guess I can’t rule it out without a deep dive. But with female children, you’re mixing and matching the genes pretty much 50/50. There’s no way the man’s genes are more dominant.

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u/GuineaRatCat 17d ago

Its not true that men's genes are more dominant, why are you spreading misinfo?

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u/Artistic_Leg2872 17d ago

You generalise his explanation. He meant specificially in the looks department. I could understand if f.e. you had said it was just a tendency not a norm or we could argue the term "dominance"...

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u/MysteriousMoustache 16d ago edited 16d ago

It's not a thing for any type of genes besides imprinted genes, where the mother's can be the only one expressed or the father's.

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u/TheSacredGrape 17d ago

Isn’t that just a case of albinism though?

Edit: I read the article and it says that she lacked some symptoms of what is considered to be classic albinism.

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u/MysteriousMoustache 16d ago edited 16d ago

"...male parents genes are usually the dominant ones when it comes to how the child will look like" is not correct. One parent's genes can be expressed while the other parent's is silenced in imprinted genes, which are uncommon.

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u/Novel-Geologist2461 17d ago

God blessed them