First of all, why are you even bothering with this if you won't sit down and watch the flick?
Secondly, the pigment of your skin doesn't always have something to do with what color your parents are. If you follow the blood line of one side of the family more so than the other, that can make a difference as well. It's kind of like two brunette parents giving birth to a child that ultimately has blond hair. How is that possible if neither parents are blond? Possibly because an ancestor on one, if not both, sides of the family had blond hair. Some children take after one parent and only one parent. Think about the two sets of twins that were born to a white mother and black father. This couple had two sets of twins, obviously years apart. Each set contained one white child and one black child. They were not evenly mixed, they were two completely different colors. This showed that one child strongly resembles its mother and the other its father.
In my family, both of my parents are white. However, one is of strong Italian decent and the other German. My parents had 4 kids, two boys, two girls. One girl and one boy look nothing like dad, one boy and one girl look nothing like mom. I have absolutely no characteristics of my dad. My older brother is the same. I don't even resemble two of my siblings. A lot of people think my sister and I are step sisters or not related at all. Fact is, we're full blooded sisters. We share the same parents. My sister is blond with a very light skin tone. I am a brunette with a much darker skin tone. However, I take after neither of my parents in a few different characteristics. I don't have either of their eye color, I don't have either of their hair color. Neither of them have curly hair and I don't share the same blood type as either of them. Since I strongly resemble my mother, we look almost exactly alike aside from eye and hair color, I know that I am biologically her daughter.
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