The Eurasian Look

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:
> WARNING: Exhaustive discussion of more than you ever wanted to know 
about the inheritance of Eurasian features follows...

Do y'know, I grabbed a cup of coffee and made myself comfy.  I *love* 
reading your posts, honestly :)

<snip lots of groovy stuff>
To cap things off in the odd stakes, my parents know this couple 
where the husband is a very blond, blue-eyed Dutchman, and the wife 
is a Filipina.  All three of their children came out blond!  The wife 
was chagrined.  "I keep hoping that at last I'll get my raven-haired 
beauty, but I keep getting golden-haired beauties instead!"  Two of 
them did darken to medium brown later, but all the same, I think it 
must be the Spanish blood in the Filipino population at work.

Just a snippet, but this reminded me of a girl I knew back in 
Montreal.  She lived on the Kanawake First Nations Reserve, and was 
therefore considered to be a full-blooded Mohawk by the Canadian 
Government (I could go on for ages about non-Natives defining the 
status of Natives, but I'll save that for another day).  BUT...she 
had very pale skin, loads of freckles, a rather long nose, and bright 
red hair.  Both her parents, though, looked Native, and apparently 
had rather a shock when this girl popped out!  This, I would think, 
is a classic example of European genes gone into hiding until the 
right genetic mixture was created.

I dropped science after grade 10 as I'm no good at pure sciences, but 
have always had an interest in genetics.  So thanks again for the 
essay, Tabouli!

Mary Ann :)
> 
> So (says Tabouli to her by now very small audience), to answer 
Kimberly's question, I think the junky novelist is pushing it a bit.  
By my calculations, the child would probably have, at the most 
Caucasian, wavy reddish brown hair, light pinkish olive skin, hazel 
to green and somewhat olive-y shaped eyes, and somewhere between a 
dainty, bridgeless Japanese nose and a large, bridged Irish nose.  
The only save for the writer is the fair-skinned, natural Japanese 
curls/surprise Caucasian ancestor and generations of red-haired blue-
eyed Irish escape clause (a la Dutch-Filipina couple).  Perhaps the 
Japanese wife had fair skin and both natural curls and a dash 
of "white blood" somewhere in her ancestry, and the Irish husband was 
from such potently pure red-curls and blue eyes stock, their daughter 
miraculously fluked a very Caucasian appearance, conveniently enough 
for the plot...
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> Tabouli.
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