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ethnicity
i know i know this may be the craziest weirdest question on this site..... lol.... bare with me.... i really need an answer:
ok i am not sure what ethnic group i am resemble when it comes to my looks. i should be dark because i am from the middle east but i am not. i am rather fair (not very like Scandinavians!) but i have a straight defined nose with a high rounded nose ( just a bittttt piggish) when you look at my profile but its rounded at the front (kind of like how a a toddler's nose would look like) from the front... i don't know how to explain it... but shape-width-size its a cross between a african-korean-latin nose if that makes any sense.... my face is between oval and rectangular . my eyes are almond-shaped (black) not too big not to0 small (though they lean towards small a bit... which makes people ask me if i have asian blood... i don't :S).
i've got a long neck... and last but most noticeable, i have extremely curly hair (when short looks like a cool afro) which gets people all confused about my background. when i say am middle eastern or Mediterranean they ask if my mum or dad is something else (i am supposed to be a stereotype dark pointy nosed arabian beauty or something... or a t least dark with dark straight hair) or the ask if my ancestors are of different races (nope, all of them are arabs my dad has a great grandparent from iraq and the rest are from this area in the west of what is now saudi arabia) my ancestors then moved to the shores of the med.sea (spain) and now i am here all confused.... so you see why blood, heritage, and place of birth don't matter??? :(
i really want to at least know who i resemble most. i mean it's really hard trying to find things that suits your looks when everything has to do with complexion figure features...etc
for the most part i just say i am half Korean half African... :S
any clue to what ethnic group i may resemble?
thanx a mil!
--jasmin
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Wow, I'd love to see a picture of you... you sound very pretty and unique!
Anyway... without actually seeing you, it's really hard to say what ethnicity you LOOK like. But since you are certain that your heritage is middle-eastern, why not just tell people that when they ask? Sure, they may be surprised, since you don't have the typical middle-eastern look... but if that's what you are, then that's what you look like! Being honest about your heritage may help people to realize that not everyone of the same ethnicity looks exactly the same.
If you could take a look at all the people from your ancestral homeland, you'd probably find at least some others who look like you. And if you could trace your ancestry waaaayy back, you'd probably find that some of your ancestors arrived in Saudi Arabia from different places... possibly some from Africa, some from Asia, even some from Europe. All these genes got passed down in differnt combinations through the generations, and you wound up with a very unique combination!
Here's a website that you might find interesting. It's the National Geographic's Genographic project:
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Up at the top, click on Atlas of the Human Journey. It's really fascinating!
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could you maybe include a picture to help us out?
that was extremely comfusing to follow lol.
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