Is there such a thing as a descendant of the Sioux tribe bein' paler then most caucasians?
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It's very possible. My best friend is Native American, and she is as blue eyed/blonde as them come. Recessive genes can toss you through a loop. Give him the benefit.
379891
Tribe? Is he some kind of Indian?
412529
Save for the Native American Indians, isn't everyone from the US originally an immigrant?
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They ain't Caucasians. That's bullshit spread by themselves to make them feel better than the other dark indians. Truth is, they're brown and mixed.
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If by redbone, you mean a fair skinned african american, you can test your heritage via kits sold at http://africanancestry.com/shop.htm. I plan on doing it.\n\nLots of people are doing this now and have discovered fascinating things about their backgrounds. For example, Prof. Henry Louis Gates, who is head of Harvard's African-American Studies program, found that he may be 50% white.\n\nIf your dad says you are, why don't you believe him? There are plenty of fair skinned people with black heritage: Mariah Carey, Wentworth Miller and more. See www.mixedfolks.com for other examples.\n\nAnd I'm curious to know what acting white or acting black is in your opinion. We're all products of our environments.
1101127
I don't and I consider myself a spiritualist.  Not so much a medium, but definitely a spiritualist.  I don't have an Indian guide, but I do have Native American blood.  Does that change it any?
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Try researching your genealogy. It may prove to be a difficult task and you may never find out. Just be comfortable with being a human being and do not worry about the percentage of other races that made you up. You are a child of the universe like everyone else. You have a right to be here.
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Yes.  An albino is just like anyone else except they're skin is lacking pigment and their eyes and hair are lighter. They are normal in every other way, basically. He is one of the coolest guys I've ever known. :)
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What i think is funny is that a large portion of the people who claim Cherokee, claim that their great grandmother was a Cherokee princess. Okay, if your Cherokee and telling the truth, FINE, BUT there was no such thing as royalty in the indigenous nations back in the day...yes there were chiefs...but the false label of "_____ Princess" actually came from when the beautiful young indigenous females that were shipped to "the old world" and forced to slavery within royal family homes...BUT...anybody who did not hold a royal title was not allowed into these homes, so these poor frightened girls were given the titles of "princess" so they could legally enter these estates to slave away;they were usually discarded after age overcame their ability to slave...so only the stories were returned, never the "princesses"...little off the subject, but i wanted to share that fun fact ;)
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In the 19th century (and later) it was believed that there were 3 distinct "races" of humans: negroid (black), mongoloid (eastern) and caucasoid (white, but also applied to non-white people from the subcontinent and middle east).\n\nNegroid and mongoloid are now (rightly) considered to be non-PC and downright insulting. But the term Caucasian has survived to describe white/south asian/middle eastern people.\n\nWhen black people in America got fed up being called negros, they took on the term African American as a more accurate and respectful description of themselves and their heritage.\n\nI guess white people still get called Caucasian because it has never been a term of insult/abuse.
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I have known Belinda's who were of all different races here in America.  I don't think it is strictly a Caucasian name.
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I am a white man, US born, and grew up in the deep south.  That being said, I am of Welsh, Irish and German ancestry.  While some may consider that to be racially pure, I have never considered it.  My wife is 1/8 Cherokee, yet my son is Blond with blue eyes.  Who really cares?  What difference does it make?\nAs long as we dwell on matters such as this, we cannot move beyond them.
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depends on their heritage
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Lack of pigmentation.
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dark pigments in their skin...a genetic trait
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Its true that melanin controls the color of the skin, but I assume you are asking the entire genetic difference.  First, there is no definition in science for a black or white person, and even individuals would differ in what they consider dark enough to be black, or light enough to be white- But even assuming you had a definition, based on how dark a person is, there isnt any clear genetic difference.  In fact, people from Ethiopia and Somalia are more closely related to European caucasians then they are to west African tribes.  Extremely dark people from the Indian subcontinent are closely related to Europeans, and are genetically considered nearly identical-Native Australians are not very closely related (relatively speaking) to African blacks.  The skin color of a person is only one aspect of thousands of characteristics-it just happens to be one that we can easily see.  If you look at blood types, certain african groups are more closely related to Ethnic Slavs than the slavs are to other European groups (even though the slavs "look" like other Europeans)- this is only one example of many that have been found...what a person looks like appears to have very little to do with genetic relatedness.
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lebanese are classified between caucasian and mongoloid so there is a possibility of blond hair and blue eyes. probably not in a pure lebanese person though.