Have you met a "throwback?"

[Flat Top]

Have you ever met one of any background?

Info on an Afrikaner throwback
www.elysianfilms.com/skin.htm

I met a 1/16 white Chinese girl who looked half-half, more white than Vanessa Minnillo.

[Ave`]

It must be difficult for them mainly because their parents are prolly of the same race and so is their community and most of their relatives. Which pretty much singled them out quite easily.
However, I believe in most time its a special attibute thats a person is proud of. It makes them exceptionally unique. but in a racist community such as the gal in the article above. She and her family suffers because of it.

[jefe]

I think it has a negative connotation because of the shock value. Two white parents giving birth to a black baby certainly would create not only shock, but possibly social problems.

But I am sure that it happens occasionally in the USA and Brazil, given the generations of multi-racialism. In the USA, I have seen many examples of siblings with the same parents, one with fair skin, blue eyes, European features and fine wavy hair, the other clearly mostly African looking.

The most common effect of atavism would be, say, a Chinese born with blue eyes, which I have seen several times.

If people would only stop thinking that there is such thing as racial purity . . . .

[cinnamoroll]

OOOHHH this is quite relevant to this thread:

The Human Stain
Story about a "throwback" boy in segregated America... he eventually has to choose between identifying & living as a white or black man.

(Wentworth Miller plays the "throwback"... he's on far left)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0308383/