Posted as a reminder of how trivial the role of melanin production should be in the overall scheme of human relationships.
I found the image on Reddit without a source, so I suspected it might be spurious, but a TinEye reverse image search yielded the primary article from 2016, which has numerous photos of the girls. Here is part of the source text translated:
As you stand in front of two small angels, you are drawn to the beautiful and even extravagant features of the beauty of the divine creation, and you do not believe when you learn the relationship between them.The twins, Baraa and Israa, from the Gaza Strip, suffered from people's looks and questions, due to the different color of their skin.The father of the twins, Etaf Al-Habal, said that the difference in the color of their skin was shocking to him, so he thought that Esraa had been replaced in the delivery room, until his memory came back to his dark-skinned brother as his uncle, who is blond as his mother, adding that the family carries genetic genes for brunettes. And blondes.He added, "When I saw them for the first time, I thought that they were not sisters, and that they were switched in the delivery room until I was sure that my wife was the only one to give birth on that day, and there is no one else in the hospital."Al-Habl stressed that the difference in the skin color of both Baraa and Israa is mainly caused by the genetics of their ancestors, in addition to the fact that they were in two separate sacs inside their mother’s womb, and that the percentage of blonde skin is high in their family compared to brown skin.The two girls, Esraa and Baraa, emphasized that despite their different skin color, they are related to each other, and they behave in the same manner and wear the same clothes, even as they are similar in the way they sleep and walk.Al-Habl said that the difference remains in academic achievement, as the twins are among the top achievers in school. However, Israa was a year behind Baraa because she was hit by three shrapnel in her head, neck and foot, and although she has recovered, she still suffers from foot pain as she is receiving treatment. periodically.
Me myself probably would have thought about the cuckoo bird if I saw my new born variegated daughters, so full marks for the man's confidence, .... or ....
ReplyDeleteMy daughters' biggest risk when growing up was head lice, shrapnel is a fair bit worse, be good if the affluent countries could stop making armaments and concentrate on insecticide shampoos.
Blonde skin is a new term for these eyes, from now on I'll be calling myself blond skinned (it's really sort of cappuccino colour, Northern European stock living in Antipodean sunshine).
Reminds me of how Lewis and Clark, as well as, later, George Catlin, were intrigued by the Mandan Indians, in that they had lighter hair and eyes than other Native Americans. It launched the fables of the Welsh having landed in the New World centuries earlier...as well as the notion that perhaps they were part of the Lost Tribes of Israel.
ReplyDeleteOddly enough, the Mormons' foundational "myths" (I don't want to act like deeply held beliefs should be dismissed as myths) are that ancient Israelites, apparently who were of more Caucasian features, came to North America millennia ago. The Mandans might be part of the cause for that belief (since Joseph Smith's visions took place some years after Lewis and Clark returned, and had perhaps heard of the Mandans).
My daughters, not twins, show a similar assorting of a mixed bag of genes. Growing up in Ireland, some wag called them The Pint of Guinness, the larger part dark with a smaller paler part at the top. Home birthed both, so no possibility of a mix-up with the wrist-bands on the maternity wing. And milkman ceased being a profession long before they were born.
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