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How Diluted Must A Person's Black Heritage Be Before They Cannot Legitimately Call Themselves A Person Of Colour?
Grandparent, great grandparents, how far down the line?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I occasionally read articles in the press where a white couple have a dark skinned baby, much to their surprise. Family history research reveals a black ancestor somewhere down the line. A black couple had twins, one white, one black.
Would it depend on skin colour and other genetic traits or just parentage?
we are verging on 'cultural appropriation' some people can say they are coloured and some not - well done AB ! ( cries of foo what dat den etc)
this was recognised in the C19 with now-insulting words - m+latto. quadr++n, octor++m - so that wd be g- gr- parents in answer to the OP q. Bertha in Jane Eyre ( laughing Bertha) is half Jamaican isnt she?.
I have 8% Indian blood / genetics because before 1820, the British traders routinely married Indian wives. I m not indian nor do I identify with Rishi nor 'namaste'. Since the familly emigrated in 1750, I am not surprised.
I have no Arab blood but am quite happy to greet people in Arabic ( and cant ride a camel)
and so it depends on how the person feels
Two nephews in Liverpule police and they identify themselves as British Afro Caribbean ( London accents, and both have degrees). When the Nigerian girl jilted one, the mother ( guess which one!) said " good he wasnt black enough!"
The girl down the road, with a Singaporean Mandarin mama is certain she is English and wont go to week-end chinese culture school.
My two great nephews ( no not the afro caribbeans, I have a LOT) anglo japanese who were born in Japan, were chucked out of Japan by the Grandmother ( "they have no future here: they must go ( not return) to England" ) omi-goshi grandma ! I am pretty sure they dont er feel Japanese !
so it depends
when Trump said this, I sat stunned and thought: he cd lose the election over this!
I guess anyone's DNA could mutate and create a black baby.
It is a fascinating area - the gene is still there but why was it hidden for x generations and then expressed in the current one?
One gene may duplicate - one next to the other, and then slightly mutate ( alpha and beta Hb)
One gene may duplicate - one next to the other, and then greatly mutate - and take up a completely different function ( collagen and C1q complement )
and lastly
It is possible for a woman to have twins, with each twin having a different father. This phenomenon is known as heteropaternal superfecundation.
Bunnies do this a lot ( and also ovulate on command - can you think of the command?) and was described in man twenty y ago
AND - It is possible for a woman to have twins, with each twin having a different father. AND have different gestational ages ( one twin is four or eight weeks more advanced) ( why that means the second father.....)
but I think this sort of thing is too rich for AB !
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