Would you date a black person?

[shaasavera]

Re: Would you date a black person?

@Mezhgan

@shaasavera With the fractions, are you referring to actual ancestry and lineage or culture? Those are two different things.

While I agree that people can be influenced and pick up bits of culture from the people who raise them despite not being biologically related to them, such as step parents or in the case of adopted children, I don’t believe this counts as lineage/ancestry.

For example: My parents have British friends who have an adopted child from Nepal. They adopted her when she was about 6 months old and she is now 12 years old. While she is being raised in the culture of her adopted parents and is British in terms of culture (she is Anglican and speaks only English), I would not say she is any percentage British. In terms of lineage/ancestry, she is still 100% Nepali.

With the 1/4 fractions i was referring to ancestry and lineage. With the 1/3 example including step parents i was referring more to culture. Another example of 1/3 African Chinese, 1/3 Pakistani and 1/3 Indian which would be very rare and also cultural would be a situation where an African Chinese male had a Pakistani and Indian wife and then the child was born of 2 parents but required the second wife to be a surrogate. Now if both wives were Punjabi and one was from Lahore and the other from Amritsar, a difference of 40 km, how much cultural difference and difference in ancestry would they really have? Technically there would only be 2 lineages involved but practically the influence could come from all 3.

I agree with your family friend example and would say she is definitely 100% Nepali.