# Most unusual ethnic mixes? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 4, 2010, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897 "2010-06-04T06:49:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/21 "2010-06-04T16:02:05Z")
1. I had a good friend in law school who was Venezuelan and married to a Croatian. They just had a kid…so that kid. 2. My dad’s best friend is Portugese, raised in Africa, and married to a Korean raised in Hawaii. So, their kids (who are so sweet). 3. My father dragged us to various research labs all over the world when my sister and I were really young, so we have all these pictures of us with other hapless MNC victims/international marriage kids whom I haven’t seen in 25-28 years. There’s a picture of me in a diaper with a Guatamalan-Egyptian boy I later ran into when I went to college (McGill). He’s the only one I ever saw again, though. I also remember a really good friend (age 5-7) who was a coptic Egyptian. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/22 "2010-06-04T16:13:36Z")
I know a woman who is half Chinese, half Iranian. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/23 "2010-06-04T16:18:44Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > My mom’s Polish and my dad’s German. I think you need to save this for the “Least unusual ethnic mixes?” thread. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/24 "2010-06-04T16:26:29Z")
The Portuguese/Korean pair reminded me of my online friend, who is half Serbian and half Vietnamese. \*\*Hallucinex \*\*-- excellent! Report back to me if you encounter any little Tongan/Kazakhs. This is for SCIENCE! ---
**Author:** ![3waygeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e95f7d/32.png) [@3waygeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3waygeek)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/25 "2010-06-04T16:29:05Z")
When I first moved to Atlanta 17 years ago, I met a couple of sisters who had a Pakistani father & a Japanese mother. They were attending Georgia Tech on scholarship, supposedly a quid pro quo for Dad’s (who was apparently tied to the IOC somehow) support for Atlanta’s bid for the 1996 Summer Olympics. They were both very friendly and attractive young women, but they smoked like chimneys – otherwise, I would had attempted to date one or both. I say attempted because I’ve never had any real success in that department, as one might guess from my _nom de net_. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/26 "2010-06-04T19:39:13Z")
One of my exes was half Polish (white) and half Panamanian (black). ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/27 "2010-06-04T20:05:36Z")
Former roommate was half Mexican, half Swedish. He and his siblings called themselves “Swexicans”. ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/28 "2010-06-04T20:12:53Z")
I know someone who is half Basque (father) and half Montenegrian (mother). She married an Apache American Indian. They joke about how the local police are already “gearing up” for when their sons become teenagers. ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/29 "2010-06-04T20:16:53Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#): > > My brother-in-law is Bosnian/Cuban. I know a lot of former Yugoslavian/Cuban matches. Back in the day (when Yugoslavia existed), Cuba was this cool, brother communist country on a tropical island. Very popular for vacationing if you could afford it. ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/30 "2010-06-04T20:18:52Z")
Knew a girl in college who claimed “Half Aztec, half Czech”. That’s a pretty other-side-of-the-globe combination ---
**Author:** ![Pullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/31 "2010-06-04T20:29:35Z")
From my dad’s side: Indian (from India kind), Belgian, Thai. His side speaks Thai fluently. From my mom’s side: Mostly Irish extraction, but living in the US for the last 6 generations. My Husband: 1/4 Filipino and 3/4 visiting American Soldier, raised in Hawaii. Our kids will be essentially Caucasian, but they’re going to grow up with an eclectic mix of foods and names for things. I also love [stories like this](http://www.impactlab.com/2009/03/02/couple-gives-birth-to-black-and-white-twins-again/). Genetics are fun! ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/32 "2010-06-04T20:42:20Z")
Hawaiian/Chinese is… well, not exactly common, but it’s not unusual. I’m kind of desensitized to it, but I guess it is amusing to find a stoic, dark-skinned burly man with coarse dark brown hair with the last name Ho. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Nene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/da6949/32.png) [@El\_Nene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Nene)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/33 "2010-06-04T21:08:44Z")
[Marcus Tulio Tanaka](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Tulio_Tanaka), I think qualifies. My son is half Salvadorean, 1/4 Indian and 1/4 Jamaican. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/34 "2010-06-05T01:44:52Z")
My grandmother was born in 1917 to a teenage Sac-Fox girl in Wisconsin who’d spent a couple of weeks in a cabin with a Jewish member of the Chicago Outfit, fucking and shooting at flies on the wall with his revolver. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/35 "2010-06-05T02:01:15Z")
> [@Pullet](#): > > My Husband: 1/4 Filipino and 3/4 visiting American Soldier, raised in Hawaii. Hmm . . . could you give us the breakdown on that? Is this one of those “the doctor was the patient’s MOM!” things? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/36 "2010-06-05T02:43:48Z")
We know a family that is both black and descended from a Confederate soldier; once the war was over, he married an ex-slave. ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/37 "2010-06-05T02:54:08Z")
Let’s see, I know: A Costa Rican/Chinese girl. An Italian/Salvadoran girl. And my cousins are Ashkenazi Jewish/East Indian. ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/38 "2010-06-05T03:04:14Z")
I went to high school with a guy who was half African-American (dad), half native Hawaiian Polynesian (mom). The product was devastatingly handsome, but he was a very unusual looking fellow! Except for the hair texture, you might have mistaken him for Hispanic. ---
**Author:** ![Pullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/39 "2010-06-05T03:27:45Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > > [@Pullet](#): > > > > Originally Posted by Pullet View Post > > My Husband: 1/4 Filipino and 3/4 visiting American Soldier, raised in Hawaii. > > Hmm . . . could you give us the breakdown on that? Is this one of those “the doctor was the patient’s MOM!” things? Grandma had an affection for men in uniform, yielding a daughter who was 1/2 Filipino, 1/2 American soldier. Daughter’s tastes run the same as Grandma’s. Fortunately, there was a new war and a fresh crop of soldiers to choose from. This resulted in my Husband, 1/4 Filipino and 3/4 visiting soldier. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/40 "2010-06-05T03:31:55Z")
There are quite a few Thais of a certain age who have Black features. They are more usually the offspring of liasons during the Vietnam War. I have seen Black people in the US who are albinos, and the Thai-Black mix often resembles that to some degree. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897.md?page=3)