This is because they get the dominant, healthy genes from both races...sort of like beating 3000 years of distant-inbreeding. While in single-race people, there's a greater chance that they got the recessive not-so-healthy genes. Because they have a healthier makeup, they're therefore more attractive because people are generally more attracted to healthy people. Of course it's not always true, but the study states that you merely have a better chance of having attractive children if your partner is of a different race than you.  

Good news for me I guess. I'm half white and half Asian.  

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Post edited at 2:40 pm on May 25, 2008 by ForeignFishes

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Um, I think it depends on the person. You can't say everyone from a mixed race is prettier than everyone who has same-race parents. My parents are from different races, but physically I look more like my dad, who's white.

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Good news for me I guess. I'm half white and half Asian.

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Um, I think it depends on the person. You can't say everyone from a mixed race is prettier than everyone who has same-race parents. My parents are from different races, but physically I look more like my dad, who's white.

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My mum is Spanish/Seychellois, so African/Hispanic, and my dad is white. He's from Australia.

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Um, I think it depends on the person. You can't say everyone from a mixed race is prettier than everyone who has same-race parents. My parents are from different races, but physically I look more like my dad, who's white.

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My mum is Spanish/Seychellois, so African/Hispanic, and my dad is white. He's from Australia.

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Oh, how much black are you?

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I'm not. The Seychelles was never inhabited by blacks.

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You aint mixed race, just mixed ethnicity. There are actually only three races among humans.

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1) prove that people of mixed race are in fact "healthier" when I believe that social factors like class, experienced racism, whether parents are immigrants, whether people are urban or rural would have a lot more to do with visible health than one's race.

2) prove that they are found to be more attractive based on a genetic level, not a social one. There is a disgusting amount of fetishism towards the perceived exotic (from the white side), especially with mixed race folk. And there is a lot of fetishism among minorities with complexes about light skinned people, since they have historically been more valued.

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You aren't 50% white and 50% asian. You make it sound like every single one of your ancestors on each side was the exact same race. Those are not distinct, universal races. They include multiple white races and multiple asian races. It's not like when you learned probability in math class and you found 4C2. It's not a thing where there are specified groups of identical people created fundamentally different from the people of other groups and you're picking one person from two different groups and making a baby. This is hundreds of thousands of years of breeding; EVERYBODY IS MULTI-RACIAL NOW.

Yeah, "multi-racial" people get the healthy genes from both races, but "mono-racial" people get the healthy genes from both parents as well. Honestly, are parents of "mono-racial" people identical except for the gender differences?

Post edited at 8:58 pm on May 13, 2008 by hithere