What's your ethnicity/culture?
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Originally posted by blureds2k
2/3 filipino 1/3 chinese...look a lot more chinese when i'm drunk no really...
2/3 filipino 1/3 chinese...look a lot more chinese when i'm drunk no really...
Just curious.
I suppose the 2/3 could be 4/6, but you would have to have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, and 8 great-grandparents.
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Originally posted by hyperpm
so if grandma is chinese and a great granddad is spanish, then person would be 1/4 chinese and 1/8 spanish correct?
so if grandma is chinese and a great granddad is spanish, then person would be 1/4 chinese and 1/8 spanish correct?
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So here is the million dollar question that I am stumped on:
Let's say Russell Wong and Kristen Kreuk have four kids. Now each parent is precisely 50% Chinese and 50% Dutch. According to high school biology, at least one kid will be 100% Chinese, both physically and genetically. One kid will be 100% Dutch, both physically and genetically. Now the other two kids will look the same theoretically, their physical outside dictated by their dominate ethnicity (not sure which that might be). However, their genetic makeup will be 50% Chinese, 50% Dutch, just like their parents. Is this true? Does anyone know of any real life examples?
Ever since I took biology, I always wanted to know the answer to this question. I know humans are more complex than rats or peas, but what would these kids look like? Would people think that one kid was adopted because the other three looked the same?
Let's say Russell Wong and Kristen Kreuk have four kids. Now each parent is precisely 50% Chinese and 50% Dutch. According to high school biology, at least one kid will be 100% Chinese, both physically and genetically. One kid will be 100% Dutch, both physically and genetically. Now the other two kids will look the same theoretically, their physical outside dictated by their dominate ethnicity (not sure which that might be). However, their genetic makeup will be 50% Chinese, 50% Dutch, just like their parents. Is this true? Does anyone know of any real life examples?
Ever since I took biology, I always wanted to know the answer to this question. I know humans are more complex than rats or peas, but what would these kids look like? Would people think that one kid was adopted because the other three looked the same?