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My "grandma" neighbour Moli, a Fijian of mixed Chinese and East Indian descent, has grandchildren Darius and Jewel, who are part black because their father was a Caribbean black. So, the grandchildren have all Mongoloid, Caucasoid, Negroid, and Australoid ancestries.
Source: tatoeba (10766675)
Mama looks Mediterranean, but she has also Chinese and Filipino ancestries, as does Papa.
Source: tatoeba (10767648)
Moli, my "grandma" Fijian neighbour of Chinese and East Indian ancestries, and husband Leong, also Fijian of Chinese ancestry, have three children in Canada, Abraham, Isaac, and Sandra, who to me look just like Japanese people. In a discussion during one outdoor party, Sandra joked to others about "making love" to a watermelon.
Source: tatoeba (10769513)
I have been wishing to travel to French Polynesia, including Tahiti and Bora Bora. There was a phase in my life wherein I studied Malayo-Polynesian languages such as Samoan, Tahitian, Hawaiian, Indonesian, Ilocano, and so forth. I have a book collection of them. I do have Austronesian ancestry. Some researchers call it "Sundadont," whilst I have also "Sinodont" and "Eurodont" ancestries.
Source: tatoeba (11046856)
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