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I don't know what I was expecting after she said, but they're also something else.
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u/781nnylasil 7d ago
This is all because of the DNA they inherited from their mom. She passed on more DNA from her black parent to the more black looking daughter and more DNA from her white parent to the white looking daughter. They both got 50% of their DNA from their mom but it’s not a guaranteed 25% from each grandparent.
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u/stuff_of_epics 6d ago
It’s not that it’s more or less, total. I suppose you could say ‘more’ if looking specifically at the genes that encode for darker skin. But the point is that it’s the actual gene(s) itself and not how many from either side; statistically, each grandparent accounts for 25%.
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u/Proper-Equivalent300 6d ago
I had a tl;dr but I’m party to the same thing. My in laws are Jamaican and we have talked about this as everyone looks like the United Nations in our extended family. The colors that come out don’t make sense yet here we all are 🇯🇲🇻🇪🇳🇿🇫🇮🇬🇧🇺🇸
The long history of marriage back and forth with the Scots and Brits that originally settled in Jamaica has set up a sweet spot in genes expressing this way, right now.
I found a story on msn a just few years ago. These girls are the most famous but a pile of twins are now happening and in each documented family one parent is always Jamaican (edit: at least in that article)
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u/AsperaRobigo 6d ago
This isn’t necessarily true. Statistically it’s most likely that it’ll be close to a 25-25-25-25 distribution, but when your body is making eggs or sperm, it doesn’t distinguish between DNA you got from your mother or your father. This is a phenomenon called random assortment.
Random assortment means a pair of eggs that formed from the same germ cell might be 80% one parent and 20% the other. If one of those eggs ends up fertilized, the resulting offspring’s DNA will be 50 percent identical to each of its parents, but in similarity to its grandparents will have a 10-40-25-25 split.
This isn’t necessarily common, since an even outcome is more statistically likely when things are random, but it’s not impossible for it to have happened in the case shown in the video.
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u/_that_dam_baka_ 5d ago
Isn't there something about dominant genes too?
I don't see why this is abnormal? Surprising, maybe. But fraternal twins looking different is expected, right? It wouldn't be shocking if it was not it girl or if they were simply siblings, not twins.
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u/im_at_work_today 7d ago
I swear this seems to happen a lot. I'm sure this is the 3rd story I've seen of this happening - just in the UK, over the years.
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u/ssdsssssss4dr 6d ago
It happens everywhere. Multiracial/ biracial families produce children of all varying hues. Hell, even within just black families, there are kids of varying browns from the same parents. Genes are fun!
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u/scolipeeeeed 6d ago
It’s just more obvious when the parents have very different appearances, but it’s not that uncommon for a child to look a lot like one parent and not much like the other. I have a friend who looks like a copy of their mom, so I guess if the parents were different races, I could totally see it working out like this twin.
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u/JustSherlock 6d ago
I find it interesting when I child turns out to be a near copy of a completely different family member, like an aunt or great grandparent.
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u/Proper-Equivalent300 6d ago
Yeah, and it’s popping up in Jamaican families. See my story above. It’s kinda cool to be in a family that has like ten different shades, but one love 💕 where’s bob when you need him?
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u/Turnip-for-the-books 6d ago
Not the same but I know a mixed race family with 4 kids and the kids range from mediterranean looking skin and hair through to black afro Caribbean
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u/allisjow 7d ago
Years later…
Hospital: Oops, we mixed up the babies.
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u/Worried_Poet_7355 7d ago
people must not believe the fair skin sister when she tells people she is black. this is amazing and they are amazing! love this!
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u/Aziara86 7d ago
1/4 is mixed, not black. But yeah she doesn't look mixed either.
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u/throwaway24822234444 6d ago
The 1% rule is not real, it’s just an incredibly racist ideology created out of pure nonsense. Mixed is mixed. Both women in the video are mixed, both women have claim to both of their ethnicities. It’s simple, really.
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u/Proper-Equivalent300 6d ago
Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924 classified a person as Black if they had any African ancestry at all.
It was one of the handful of codified laws. Many times it was only a social code. Racism has many ways to do its thing.
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u/Xiao1insty1e 6d ago
I did not, and not why I was using it.
I was pushing back on the idea that they weren't black. If they want to claim it they can.
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u/Xiao1insty1e 6d ago
Yeah if you had bothered to look at my post history even one time you would know that I was not.
Good day.
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u/Independent-Shoe543 7d ago
Yes because she's not 😅
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u/Alarming-Prize-405 6d ago
According to you (and you are wrong). Turns out black, white, and brown are social constructs and there is no biological basis for different races. We are all the same. What you consider different is up for social and cultural debate.
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u/Independent-Shoe543 6d ago
Yes of course I completely agree with that they are complete social constructs and indeed it is a spectrum with no defining divisions between 'races' in genetic/biological terms and indeed there is no use for such, I just meant based on the social construct which is generally visual characteristics, hair eye colour, phenotype, melanin quantity, she would not be considered black? Of course people choose what they identify as but I think it is a bit pedantic to say she is not white in all general purposes of the term.
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u/Alarming-Prize-405 6d ago
Race is not only defined visually, it’s also defined socially and culturally. Even “white passing” people are persecuted (Jews, Romani, Arabs, etc.)
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u/a_dreamer 6d ago
I agree with what you're saying 100%. I also want to add into this discussion thread that for law enforcement purposes, race is defined as what is seen. You aren't asked your race when you're booked after being arrested because it's more important to know what you look like. If they're looking for the lighter of the twins, for good or bad reasons, you want to say she's a "white" female because otherwise, she wouldn't be identified. Say if she were ever kidnapped and human trafficked. It's all nuisanced, which is what I think that you are saying too
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u/SidTheSloth97 6d ago
If there's no biological basis and we are all the same, than doesn't that make her white simply because her skin is white and she looks white. If there's no basis and we are all the same are we not then simply just what we look like/the colour you see??
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u/Alarming-Prize-405 6d ago edited 6d ago
Again, according to you. And within a broader social context also no because many people would not consider her white and would still discriminate.
What does your opinion about someone else mean? Nothing compared to their own identification, and again not even in a larger social context.
For example, If Jews have white skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes, why are they not considered white?
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u/Woodbear05 6d ago
Uterus ran out of ink halfway
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u/Brandhout 6d ago
Still kept going though, unlike my printer.
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u/Ambitious-Actuary182 6d ago
Ink is not the issue though, Is your printer lubed well?
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u/Munbos61 7d ago
This is so beautiful. These ladies are amazing.
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u/your_mom_made_me 6d ago
Why? Why are they amazing?
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u/General_Cherry_3107 6d ago
They can both dress up as Michael Jackson on Halloween.
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u/Shytemagnet 6d ago
Because it’s the literal definition of the word?
amazing:
adjective causing great surprise or wonder; astonishing.
I have great surprise at seeing twins that have such different skin colours.
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u/killerjags 6d ago
They're also something else. Something that may surprise you. They're "roommates"
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u/Joris_McNorris 7d ago edited 6d ago
"Caramel complexion vs pale white skin" 😬
Edited for grammar
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u/Whole-Remote-7552 6d ago
I think you should put this in quotes, I thought you were commenting on THEM, not how they were described
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u/Existing-Victory7097 7d ago
They’re non-identical twins: two different fertilised eggs (same as “siblings”) as opposed to one fertilised egg that split into two identical copies.
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u/just_a_person_maybe 6d ago
Fraternal twins have exactly the same chances of this happening as any other siblings.
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u/Zoop3r 6d ago
It is kind of like heterochromia (two different eye colours) on a person.
I would love to know the stats on this, it has to be more than one set of twins in a million (1,000,000:1). But I can't find any reputable stats on it.
Found this, approx 1 in 2 million - https://www.babycenter.com/pregnancy/your-baby/strange-but-true-mixed-race-twins-one-black-one-white_10364936
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u/insite4real 6d ago
My sister has blue and green, supposedly it skips a generation so either her or my kids apparently may have it. (one of my grandmother's brothers had it as well)
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u/Dangerous-Month-7200 6d ago
honestly, aside from the racial difference they look pretty similar tbh
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u/Odd-Intern-401 6d ago
Same eye and face expression
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u/Not_A_Wendigo 6d ago
Same nose too. Other than their colouring, they look a lot alike. Especially in the picture with red shirts.
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u/Turbulent-Parsnip512 6d ago
"What are the odds that one would be black and one would be white?"
THEY'RE BOTH MIXED
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u/Leprecon 6d ago
Honestly I think this just shows how much race is something we socially decide. Geneologically they are both mixed. Except based on looks it looks like one is white and one is black.
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u/FaithlessnessLoud336 6d ago
Race isn’t even real anyway, but very cool. It also seems like each embraced their own unique beauty too even though they also look the same
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u/Ok_Ad3986 6d ago
I got a mate who is Black and from Portugal, married to a white woman from Serbia. They have 2 sons, the eldest you can tell has black genes and what is common for most mixed children to look like. Their 2nd son however is white, you would not gather that he has a Black father.
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u/Some-Passenger4219 6d ago
Weird...but COOL! I'll bet those girls can do some good in the world with their unique qualities.
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u/Ok-Bandicoot1529 6d ago
When someonesays they take after their mom or dad i never pictur this but it for sure can happen
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u/Professional_Spray74 6d ago
Honestly, I’ve looked at a lot of redheads and kind-of went “hmmm”? Many of redheads have some serious Afro features. That’s why I try not to make assumptions about people. You really never know.
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u/Yamzicle 6d ago
Hearing someone with dark-colored skin described as “c a r a m e l” is definitely a new one for me
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u/wnk_kaiser 6d ago
So they are not identical twins? That's what it boils down to right? Then that makes total sense and isn't that shocking
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u/LOOKITSADAM 6d ago
Palette swap.
Seriously, it's so cool to see the facial features match up while the whole chroma-situation is different.
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u/TealcOneill 6d ago
I thought at first this was some weird couples announcement and woooh. What a sensation of whiplash it gave when they said they're twins.
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u/Last-Influence-2954 6d ago
Caucasion genes are mostly just a mutation. The origibal pure blood is black people.
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u/TipsyPhippsy 6d ago
I'm surprised she said Gloucester correctly, then she went and said Caramel wrong lol.
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u/Mundus6 6d ago
If 1 parent is mixed and the other parent is white. Its 50/50 that your child is either black or white. So this is actually not that uncommon if they were to get twins that are not identical.
Now the hair is just a coincidence, cause that is actually separate. You could get a white kid with curly hair or a black kid with straight.
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u/Special-Elevator-335 6d ago
Most interesting thing I learned from this is how to pronounce Gloucester.
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u/Tommonen 6d ago
I dont get why people call anyone with even a little bit of african genes and dark hair as black, even if they were mostly white and clearly not all black..
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u/Infamous_Adeptness_2 6d ago
Plot twist they were both born twins and both got switched at birth to identical twin parents
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u/Smooth-Ad-6008 5d ago
Women keep the dna of every man that has sex w/ them. The more kids you have, the more likely more of them don’t look like the dad..
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u/J_hilyard 5d ago
Whyd they dress them the same as babies? How would they ever figure out which was which?
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u/axebodyspraytester 5d ago
I know it not the same but my grandmother used to show of her grandchildren and say look! They come in vanilla and chocolate! Because my cousin was a blond blue eyed angel and I'm tall dark and brown skinned. My grandmother was dark skinned as well and she got such a kick out of it.
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u/Death_black 3d ago
That's how crossing over works. I believe it's first mentioned in biology class around grade 7.
To be fair, it is possible that for a lot of people this is the last time it is ever mentioned too. Despire being Ms in biological sciences, not sure I've heard it after high school. Or maybe it just didn't draw my attention since I still remembered it.
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u/renaissanceman71 2d ago
Genetics are fascinating because you never know which traits are going to appear or not appear in kids.
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u/Nevyn_Cares 6d ago
Remember, skin tone, eye colour and hair all come from only one chromosome (I think that is the right term.)
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u/perksofbeingcrafty 6d ago
I hope this also highlights that genetically, fraternal twins are just like any other pair of siblings. They’re not more alike just because they shared a womb.
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u/folarin1 6d ago
How did it happen? She proceeded to not tell us how.
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u/just_a_person_maybe 6d ago
This happens all the time. Mom has both white and black genes, dad has white genes. Their kids can come out the same color as either parent, something in between, or potentially even darker. The whiter twin got a higher percentage of the mom's white genes and the blacker twin got a higher percentage of the mom's black genes.
When people have babies they don't pass down the exact set of genes every time, which is how siblings look different. Genes can be passively passed down through generations without being expressed, only to pop up much later as a surprise. For example, Sandra Liang, who was born with darker skin and curly hair after three generations of white ancestors, which caused confusion and legal trouble because apartheid.
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u/Dismal_Toe5373 6d ago
Mom has black and white genes. Dad has white genes. That vast genetic pool can have kids that come out looking like either race. Mom just happened to be pregnant with two babies from two separate eggs (fraternal twins are genetically like regular siblings) and they came out with opposite phenotypes like their parents.
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u/_WanderingRanger 6d ago
Are they the identical kind
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