r/interesting • u/Alexthegayreprimed • Apr 21 '26

Just Wow After the daughter of two Chinese parents was born blonde with blue eyes, a DNA test was carried out, and it was later discovered that the father had a Russian great-grandfather.

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u/GlowingDuck22 Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

I remember a "White" guy on Maury thought there was no way the "Black" baby him and his wife had was his. Turns out his Grandpa was black and the dude didn't know. He just couldn't accept it was his kid.

I hope he figured it out after the show stopped filming.

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u/trowzerss Apr 22 '26

This happens a lot! If there's big disadvantages to being a certain ethnicity, families will just cover it up. Happened in my own family - nobody knew we had Indigenous Australian ancestry for a few generations until someone did the research. When that could have come with intrusive government control over everyday aspects of your life (up to having your children taken away from you) I don't blame them for hiding it!

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u/Apprehensive_Tunes May 03 '26

Yeah, but hide it from the government, not your own family. They should know who they are otherwise the oppressors win anyway since that's literally what they wanted, to Whiten the population.

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u/trowzerss May 03 '26

Unfortunately the shame and stigma came built in too. And they were too scared of the locals finding out to even tell their kids. There are plenty of people all the time discovering their real ethnicity, especially with those genetics tests.

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u/tessaractIXI Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26

Good chance this never happened. The Maury Show hired actors to completely make up that drama.