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Well from what I no about my mom's side which I must is very complicated. Both her parents were also born in the South of Brazil near Florianopolis in the state of Santa Catarina. I also have family in the Rio Grande de Sul state some live in Porto Alegre most on the borber with Uruguay. My mom's grandfathers family is of Azoran and Medeiran decent my mom's mother is much more tricky and would be a topic in itself. I understand the feeling of not looking like the family around you. My father is very caucasian looking and mother is in the other spectrum even darker than I am. All of my fathers family has your typical northern European look and I mean everybody. Part of my mothers family and my two oldest sisters also would pass for white. Usually when I am with them people they know usually assume I'm there boyfriend or something yuck! When it is revealed I'm their full blooded brother the strange looks proceed until we reveal who are mother is and father is and get an oh....ok. This was repeated time and time again when I first met both of my sisters in laws. They both married white guys and their families couldn't get over on that on how ethnic I looked. They both have kids now and all my neices and nephews have definately lost all their ethnicity. It feels weird the way that I am and having a bunch of blond hair and blue eyed neices and nephews.


Well, descent is not necessarily the best indicator of what one necessarily looks like... my sister has been mistaken for being Hispanic even though she is purely north-central European in descent (basically from immigrants from the area between Alsace and Belarus), as she is noticably darker-skinned than the rest of my family (which looks northern European as a whole)...
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Yes genotype definitely does not equal phenotype and vice-versa.
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