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Old 12-01-2009, 10:32 PM
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Wait, so if the whites never invaded Puerto Rico like they did, Puerto Ricans would be mostly Middle Eastern & Chinese? That's cool..
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Old 12-02-2009, 05:32 AM
 
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Wait what?
What do you mean diluting the black down?
Just a measure of quantity of melanin in the skin. If a black person has kids with a white person, the kids will have less melanin than the black parent and more than the white parent. Just a figure of speech.

If we all intermix, eventually our descendants will be an even shade of brown. Not an entirely genetically correct statement but true in broad terms.
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Old 12-02-2009, 05:34 AM
 
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Wait, so if the whites never invaded Puerto Rico like they did, Puerto Ricans would be mostly Middle Eastern & Chinese? That's cool..
huh? where did you get this?

whites, middle eastern, and Chinese, ALL are imported to the island. As are all others in the mix except for the native indians.
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Old 12-04-2009, 02:33 PM
 
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WOW!!! That's is really different but cool, I would of never thought!!! My best friend is from Puerto Rico and he's Chinese/Black/Native/White...odd mix.

That's more common in the Latin Caribbean than you think. My grandfather is Cuban and is the same mix.
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Old 12-15-2009, 02:57 PM
 
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Well... if you want to get REAL technical, many Spaniards have moorish and arab traces in their DNA.... can't shake off 800 yrs of muslim occupation. lol.
theres diputes of them being african/african arabs...muslim is just a religion..queen liz also expelled them from spain
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Old 12-15-2009, 02:58 PM
 
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Just a measure of quantity of melanin in the skin. If a black person has kids with a white person, the kids will have less melanin than the black parent and more than the white parent. Just a figure of speech.

If we all intermix, eventually our descendants will be an even shade of brown. Not an entirely genetically correct statement but true in broad terms.

brown as in what black people are brown skinned technically
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Old 12-15-2009, 07:18 PM
 
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theres diputes of them being african/african arabs...muslim is just a religion..queen liz also expelled them from spain
Err . Queen Liz?!! There was no Queen Elizabeth of Spain, you mean Queen Isabella!
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Old 12-16-2009, 01:06 AM
 
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The poet Victor Hernández Cruz writes about this frequently:

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Old 12-16-2009, 07:23 AM
 
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Err . Queen Liz?!! There was no Queen Elizabeth of Spain, you mean Queen Isabella!
If you want to get THAT picky, then there wans't a Queen Isabella, but a Queen Isabel of Spain.
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Old 12-16-2009, 09:25 AM
 
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If you want to get THAT picky, then there wans't a Queen Isabella, but a Queen Isabel of Spain.

Or Ysabel.
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