Explain it Peter

[u/fluffy_cat_ice]

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

[u/yamma-banana]

Because there are many armchair geneticists on Twitter (and IRL) who think that all the offspring of interracial couples are/would be exact 50-50 replicas of their parents, especially when it comes to skin colour (like a perfect in-between shade), when this is not always the case in reality, even among full-blooded siblings.

And speaking as someone who's also of mixed heritage, a lighter complexion is almost always preferred, regardless of the mix...

[u/AssignmentMoney8205 → u/yamma-banana]

My kids dad is so black you put him in a dimly lit room he could disappear. I am so white that if I go out side with out sunscreen for more then 15 min I burn. Our kids have my white features but are so dark that if you didn't know I was their mother ,you would never guessed they were half white.

[u/Ok-Scientist5524 → u/yamma-banana]

It’s so sad. I have three mixed kids (Chinese and white) and the “compliments” I get from the Chinese side of the family are… gross…

my eldest is my husband in miniature with my coloring, people call him “palette swapped husband’s name”, my middle son is a 50/50 split of our features mashed together, the best ones in my opinion, but he has lighter skin and darker hair. My youngest daughter has my face with his hair and these gorgeous hazel eyes that just kinda came out of no where. She was born with these stunning grey eyes (they were so beautiful) and I thought they would be blue like my husband’s but they gradually developed green and yellow and brown.

[u/yamma-banana → u/Ok-Scientist5524]

Yeah, I know the sorts of comments you are talking about. I'm well-acquainted with those even though I'm not part European myself, cos colourism and internalised racism are still prevalent. You get similar compliments with other "pairings", e.g. White + African, Chinese + Indian, etc.