According to several posts in http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=152464, there’s no reason to think that your grandchildren will look more like you if your child marries someone of the same race. WTF? Yes, there are whites that look very different, and there are people who look very similar, even though they are of different races. But on average, white people look more other white people than black people. How can anyone in their right mind dispute that?
I’ve read that thread and what posters like Biggirl were saying is that if a child’s grandfather is white, and the child is mixed (part black, part white) doesn’t mean they won’t look anything like the Caucasian grandfather. For example, if you’re dark skinned but have the same facial features as a grandparent, you’ll look like them…but if you’re white and blue eyed, doesn’t mean you’ll look like your grandparent just b/c they also have blue eyes and are white, if your facial features are completely different.
Some people wouldn’t believe I am my mom’s daughter, we don’t look alike, they say I am my dad’s spitting image even if my skin tone is more like my mom’s. Dad and I share the same facial structure, same hair, same nose, we are both short and both have freckles. I don’t, however, have a balding head and abundant body and facial hair
Exactly! My oldest daughter looks like me, but has her father’s darker complexion (I’m very fair-skinned), but my two younger daughters have all of their fathers’ features, except that they are both fair-skinned like me. But no one would deny that they look just like their father! Hubby and I are both caucasian, but I would assume it would work pretty much the same way if one of us was black, and one white, instead of just one of us dark-complected, the other light.
Blue were presented as an example of one thing that is correlated with race. Czarcasm seized on this and basically said “So blue eyes are the only thing thaqt determine a person’s appearence?” One of the many poor attempts at logic I found in the thread (many of them from the OP).
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But skin tone is hardly the only thing associated with race. Facial structure, hair, nose, and freckles are all things that are correlated with race.
The Ryan: that’s exactly what I meant. Saying that a child won’t look like their grandparents because of being mixed race is silly. I am obviously not pure Caucasian (as dad) and obviously my dad’s daughter. If my paternal grandparents had objected to my dad marrying my mom on the grounds that grandkids wouldn’t look “like them” they would have been VERY wrong. Fortunately that was not the case and I now sport this convenient built-in tan.
Cornuda refers to the mother. Cornudo is masculine, cornuda feminine. It means that the child of “doubtful parentage” would clear away all doubts (obviously by his looks).
Let’s not all go jumping into bed too quickly here… if Chuck has only one objective in life, and that objective is to have grandchildren that come as close as possible to physically resembling Chuck, then Chuck would obviously prefer that his children breed with people who, as closely as possible, resemble Chuck.
And, on the average, some random person from the same “race” that Chuck is in will resemble Chuck more than some average person from another race. (Please note my use of the phrase “on the average” before flaming me.)
That said, Chuck is obviously a dingbat, is most likely an asshole, and has the truly sick priorities. And all his plan is going to do is increase his average yield, not guarantee him anything at all.
