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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Enter light skinned mixed race people who's skintone quickly varies from light to quite dark depending on UV exposure while having a very high resistance to sun burns.

Source: I am VERY mixed race and go from fair skinned in February to dark cinnamon by July.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’m a white guy, pasty as fuck in the winter with dark brown hair. I tan a little bit, but what really trips me out is my hair going from brown to blonde over the summer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

One of my cousins (second) is like that. He also has hazel eyes and very sharp (think Sweden) facial features, but he tans as dark as I do. By the end of the summer, he looks like an Arian brotherhood frat boy wearing blackface. Part of the ancestry we share is Dutch, French and northern Italian, but my features are not as sharp because I have Native American and African (West and North) from my maternal grandfather's ancestry, where his side has Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Yeah, my family is a new world hodge podge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah my grandparents were all the children of European immigrants. It’s so far back and so mixed up and irrelevant to my daily life that I don’t even know. Except I love pierogis. I guess that’s the Ukrainian/Polish shining through.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That sounds pretty awesome! Like a mini super power. I'm envious!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I like it.

My wife and I have basically the same skin tone in the winter but when we go to the beach, I'll tan into a sort of light honey (amber) color and she will turn into a boiled lobster followed be her skin literally falling off. The envy is real.