• BleatingZombie@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      This is hilarious, but I had a friend when I was really young. He was black and adopted by a white family. He got this joke (or not a joke) all the time and I could see it wear on him

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        18 hours ago

        Not to mention it actually does happen by birth very rarely. Latent genetic traits can pop up generations later.

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          I dated someone in high school whose family was all Irish levels of white and their brother looked like he popped straight out of Puerto Rico. He otherwise looked like everyone else in the family, to the point there was no doubt he was a child of both parents. There were a few other people throughout their family with the same deal. When they introduced me to him they said, “This is Collin, he’s not adopted or anything, he just got lucky.”