British twins have different skin color

[Veiled Princess 1]

I think they should name the twins: Yin and Yang

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Yin_yang.svg

I thought you actually had a pic of the babies

Hahaha, that's kind of like me! I'm a mutt (note: not offense intended!) too and most people think I'm hispanic.

Don't worry I'm not easily offended

We were in the store one day and a spanish speaking employee came up to my son and started chatting away in spanish... my son just looked like so this man looks at me and asks... why does he not answer me?

Ummmm because he doesn't speak spanish? He said Oh why not? You should teach him his language!

OK maybe if you say something in English or Vietnamese he might answer you then

He doesn't speak Vietnamese at all now though because the little bit his dad did teach him wasn't kept up... his dad should have been speaking to him in Vietnamese all his life but he wouldn't... my daughter hasn't learned any at all

[Jenn! 918]

Hahaha, that's kind of like me! I'm a mutt (note: not offense intended!) too and most people think I'm hispanic.

Don't worry I'm not easily offended

We were in the store one day and a spanish speaking employee came up to my son and started chatting away in spanish... my son just looked like so this man looks at me and asks... why does he not answer me?

Ummmm because he doesn't speak spanish? He said Oh why not? You should teach him his language!

Believe it or not, I've been reprimanded several times for trying to deny my Puerto Rican heritage.

I get spoken to in Spanish all the time, and Arabic sometimes too. The best is when people say, "Ni Hao" to me and laugh. Stupid people crack me up!

[Veiled Princess 1]

The best is when people say, "Ni Hao" to me and laugh. Stupid people crack me up!

I can think of a few Vietnamese replies you could use when they laugh (no Chinese) but I won't post them here... I'm sure someone here who speaks Vietnamese would report me

[mawilson 2,133]

This is the reason no woman should have three-somes with 2 men.

Why, is there something wrong with having two babies with different skin color?

If people tell you that your kids are beautiful, please dont take it seriously because you never hear them tell someone that their baby is ugly. So you know they are not being honest..just being nice.

Not necessarily true, matako -- if you think the baby is ugly, you can just keep your mouth shut.

No-one forces you to say the baby is gorgeous if you don't think so.

[Peggy 1]

I think those British twins are beautiful

Reinhard your little girl is just a little sweety.

She must melt your heart when you look into those big eyes

[Angel7422 0]

Reinhard she is absolutely beautiful, just wait til the play dates and all those boy babies.

As for skin tones ....My sisters and I are different skin tones ( i am medium-light to medium, 2nd sister is medium, third sister is soo light that when she was in school as a child she was thought to be white and the 4th sister is medium).

My family is Cherokee, African American, Geechee and Caucasian. Now with my husband being Egyptian I wonder what our future kids will look like.

Edited October 28, 2006 by Angel7422

[garya505 2]

I think it's not so much just that the kids are fraternal twins. That's not that unusual. It's that they're fraternal twins who are about as opposite in color palettes as one might expect!

According to another article I read about this, there's seven genes that control skin color, and the 'pale' alleles are all mostly recessive. So what you'd expect is sort of a mix between the mom & dad's skin tones, whatever the race of the parents. The extremes on either are sort of rare.

The ninth-grade hand-wavy explanation of what happened is that the mom, who is biracial, had one rare egg with seven light-color alleles, and one rare egg with all dark-color alleles, the dad's alleles are all lighter, *and* both of those rare eggs released at the same time to make fraternal twins. Plus hair color and eye color!

Or the babies have one father with darker genes and one with lighter genes.

[Marilyn. 340]

here is a pic of the babies...

[Reba 2]

they have the same nose.

[KarenCee 3]

LOL...some of these comments....

Anyway...I am Cherokee (mom) and Seminole (dad). Throw in a little German on Mom's side. My husband is French Acadian, with a bit of MiqMac (native american tribe in Canada). He is light skinned and blue eyed. I am somewhat dark skinned with blue eyes (the German I suppose). Does it matter what colour skin those babies have? Apparently it does to this Matako person. Thank goodness there are others who are intelligent enough to think otherwise. If Joel and I are blessed with a baby, I daresay it will be a beautiful child as well just as everyone else who has posted their baby's pics on here.

Poor Matako...must have had a hard childhood...or...something....

Edited October 29, 2006 by KarenCee

[Ban Hammer 14,283]

My kids are mixed four ways... Vietnamese, black, cherokee and white.... they look mexican

What kind of an orgy was that?

[matako 0]

I hope the white baby does not become a racist who hates blacks.

here is a pic of the babies...

Edited October 30, 2006 by matako

[garya505 2]

they have the same nose.

Yes but the mouths are different.

I suspect they have different fathers.

Edited October 30, 2006 by garya505

[almaty 19]

different fathers???????????

[Elizabethnhenry 0]

I don't know which show I saw it on, I think it was Oprah but a while back there were these twin teenage girls who had a Caucasian mother and a African American Father and one of the girls was like their mom with pale white skin, blonde hair and blue eyes while the other one had dark curly hair, dark skin, and brown eyes. I was so amazed because they didn't look like they were even sisters.

I know a lot of siblings like that; we see that in many parts of the caribbean and latin america all the time; to us it's normal....and beautiful.

I hope the white baby does not become a racist who hates blacks.

here is a pic of the babies...

BUT.....I am not buying this one.

My kids are mixed four ways... Vietnamese, black, cherokee and white.... they look mexican

What kind of an orgy was that?

PS

Your little Naomi is BEAUTIFUL! And you look great holing her.

Edited October 30, 2006 by Elizabethnhenry