Welcome to City-Data.com Forum!
U.S. CitiesCity-Data Forum Index
Go Back   City-Data Forum > World Forums > Asia
 [Register]
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
View detailed profile (Advanced) or search
site with Google Custom Search

Search Forums  (Advanced)
 
Old 03-11-2014, 08:04 PM
 
3,978 posts, read 4,546,729 times
Reputation: 2242

Advertisements

There are like billion toddlers (exaggerated) in China and they used this picture as an example to talk about toddlers/children in China?

China to loosen one-child policy - One News | TVNZ
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message

 
Old 03-12-2014, 12:42 AM
 
Location: Metro Phoenix
11,048 posts, read 16,763,373 times
Reputation: 12943
yeah, thats like a 1/15,000,000 occurrance in China. I teach kids and some of them have dark brown hair, one boy has light brown hair, but the other 250+ kids i teach have jet black hair.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 03-12-2014, 12:56 AM
 
Location: San Francisco, California
1,949 posts, read 6,438,119 times
Reputation: 2294
maybe the ones with the light brown hair have some mongol blood from the Genghis Khan days
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 03-12-2014, 04:04 AM
 
Location: Metro Phoenix
11,048 posts, read 16,763,373 times
Reputation: 12943
Quote:
Originally Posted by mr bolo View Post
maybe the ones with the light brown hair have some mongol blood from the Genghis Khan days
There's a good chance that they have some lineage from the Northern provinces, where you find more ethnicities that are an admixture of different groups versus the South, which is supermajority Han. Either that, or within the last couple generations, a foreigner married in; not super common, but it does certainly happen. One of my students' dads is half Russian (he was excited when he met me and asked if I was ethnically Russian), but his daughter just looks like a taller-than-average Han girl.

Also, a lot of children born with lighter hair end up with darker hair as an adult: I had super-blonde, nearly-white hair as a child, but now my hair is dark blonde/light brown with a slight tinge of red (people here in China usually refer to me as being red-haired). Different genes related to growth turn off or on as you get older and affect hair color; you see a fair number of Chinese infants and toddlers who have whispy, medium-to-dark brown hair, but their siblings who are a year or two older will have jet black hair.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 03-12-2014, 10:17 AM
 
43,303 posts, read 44,021,329 times
Reputation: 20393
Any couple where one of the parents is only child is now allowed to have 2 children.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 03-12-2014, 07:12 PM
 
3,978 posts, read 4,546,729 times
Reputation: 2242
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chava61 View Post
Any couple where one of the parents is only child is now allowed to have 2 children.
You're off topic.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 03-13-2014, 05:40 AM
 
43,303 posts, read 44,021,329 times
Reputation: 20393
Quote:
Originally Posted by Quaker15 View Post
You're off topic.
Sorry I read the headline of one child policy. But I will say that when I taught in China I didn't see any Chinese with blue or green eye colors.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 03-13-2014, 06:15 AM
 
Location: Czech Republic
2,358 posts, read 7,058,587 times
Reputation: 851
We have a neighbour who is half white half chinese and he has this hair colour too. He got it from his dad. He looks weird because it's the only thing he got from his father since he looks nothing like his father except for his hair.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 03-13-2014, 03:23 PM
 
9,240 posts, read 9,691,124 times
Reputation: 3310
When I was a child one of the teachers had light brown hair, so did several students.
It is not too uncommon in China. But the kid in the pic is a little too extreme.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.

Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.


Reply
Please update this thread with any new information or opinions. This open thread is still read by thousands of people, so we encourage all additional points of view.

Quick Reply
Message:

Over $104,000 in prizes was already given out to active posters on our forum and additional giveaways are planned!

Go Back   City-Data Forum > World Forums > Asia

All times are GMT -6.

© 2005-2024, Advameg, Inc. · Please obey Forum Rules · Terms of Use and Privacy Policy · Bug Bounty

City-Data.com - Contact Us - Archive 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 - Top